Posted on 07/09/2015 1:15:48 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush said Wednesday that in order to grow the economy “people should work longer hours” -- a comment that the Bush campaign argues was a reference to underemployed part-time workers but which Democrats are already using to attack him.
During an interview that was live-streamed on the app Periscope, Bush told New Hampshire’s The Union Leader that to grow the economy, “people should work longer hours.”
He was answering a question about his plans for tax reform and responded:
“My aspiration for the country and I believe we can achieve it, is 4 percent growth as far as the eye can see. Which means we have to be a lot more productive, workforce participation has to rise from its all-time modern lows. It means that people need to work longer hours” and, through their productivity, gain more income for their families. That's the only way we're going to get out of this rut that we're in.”
Already the Democratic National Committee has pounced, releasing a statement that calls his remarks “easily one of the most out-of-touch comments we’ve heard so far this cycle,” adding that Bush would not fight for the middle class as president.
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Jebus is coming - look busy.
In typical Bush fashion he just unwittingly delivers ammo to his opponents.
having a lol moment and thankful for retirement ... while the ‘elite’ search for the method to finish Americans ‘into the ground’
He reminds me of a former supervisor. As a field employee, I was expected to maintain 75% productivity. In June of '99, I was at 160% due to a number of installs done prior to the end of our fiscal year. In July, I went down to 73%. When he called me about it, I asked why I didn't receive one the month before, with concern I was doing too much.
For this trust fund baby to lecture anyone on working harder is a rude joke. Why doesn't he tell that to his beloved Mexicans - who are either sitting under banyan trees asleep or murdering pretty girls in California.
Of course we do! Look, someone has to pay the welfare for all those illegal aliens swarming over the border!
Jeb. They need JOBs first. Idiot.
I am reminded of the opening scene of “Hot Fuzz” with Simon Pegg. A mildly amusing movie.
Pegg plays a London cop who is so out standing that his own precinct kicks him out of London because he’s making everyone look bad.
I think I know what Jeb is trying to say. But Jeb completely ignores the perverse incentives from Obamanomics, Obamacare specifically, that dictate no one work more than 29 hours a week. I spend a lot of time in Dresden Germany. And the running joke (not really a joke but the truth) is the engineers who work 40 hours wonder why they work so much when you can make just as much money as someone who serves coffee 8 hours a week.
What, no comments nickcarraway?
Jeb is out of touch.
Work longer hours?
HOw about jobs for some of those 90 million with NO job?
This from the guy who has never had a job.
C'mon everybody-Let's all work more hours like Jeb ordered us to.
Sorry, Jeb, can’t afford to pay ‘em - the health insurance for full-time workers is just too darned expensive.
I’m no fan of El Heb, but in a nation with a Labor Participation Rate around 50% and way too much underemployment, we DO need to work more hours as a nation. Not the ones who already work full time, but the rest of the country.
I do not know how promoting a work ethic is "out of touch." That really says more about the Democrat ethic--although they claim to be for the working middle class, their poverty-increasing and job killing policies show otherwise.
I don't think Jeb stumbled so much as the Dems are quick to twist anything a Republican candidate says in order to push their agenda. Why aren't Republican candidates wargaming this tactic of Democrats in order to head them off at the pass or turn it against them?
I'm not for Jeb. My comments really apply to all Republican candidates. We should not have to settle on less than ideal candidates because we conservatives are so quick to throw any candidate under the bus as soon as he has been attacked by vicious Democrats.
Uh, no. Get rid of the illegals and make the able bodied system gamers get off their @sses and go to work. Let people keep more money in their paychecks instead of paying for these worthless mooches. That would boost the economy.
Yeah. LOL!
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