This compassionate conservatism crap is how we got into the mess we are in now.
Hillary will win for use we choose a wimp like this to our nominee.
And yet, once Jeb gets the nomination in 2016, we’ll be told that we HAVE to vote for him, because the Democrat pick would be too horrible a choice, and “a vote for a 3rd party is a vote for the Democrat!”.
You can make them go to school but you can’t force them to learn anything.
They are being told this every day by the geniuses who want to manage them.
And, the economy that could give them a path upward is being smothered in the crib.
An economy in which we make an effort to be energy independent would put millions to work, and among those milllions would be tens of thousands of small contractors and small businesses.
We send half a trillion a year out of the country to buy fuel, which puts someone else's people to work rather than our own, and pays into someone else's tax base rather than our own. That money spent here would turn this economy around so fast our heads would spin.
But we have a government that will do anything it can to avoid competing with their puppeteers at OPEC, and anything it can to avoid having a citizenry that doesn't need them and knows it doesn't need them.
Wasn’t for the communists Democrats there would be little or no poor.
Bushie-Marxist
Go Jeb 2000!
That was his year. After George W. and Mitt no way is this guy going to be nominated or elected.
Already you have Democrats saying that he disagrees with the book he just published, and you'll hear the "wishy-washy flip-flopper" theme right up to the election.
Plus, nowadays he's only slightly thinner than Chris Christie.
"Going forward, we have to deal with our longer structural problems. The biggest one, as far as I'm concerned, is that we're no longer socially mobile as a country,"... "You have people that are born poor and there's a higher and higher probability that they're going to stay poor. And you have people that are born rich and there's a greater probability that they'll stay rich... "It's just so un-American," he added. "And yet none of the conversation and the debates are really about this. But upward mobility is the chance to solve a lot of problems. . ."
I agree. It is un-American to have such a large Government and the enormous taxation system (Fed Tax, State Tax, Property Tax, Local Tax, Sales Tax, Utility Tax, Fees here, and Fees there...) to feed this beast. Putting this burden on the backs of people are going to keep people down. Slaves to the Government, so to speak.
Adding to the problem, he said, is the fact that the nation's education system no longer provides the tools to ensure that "every child has a chance to learn."
I agree - our Government School system is poor. It seems to exist only to brainwash children to adopt an atheistic philosophy; to emasculate young boys; to promote promiscuity; to mock the principles on which this country was founded; and at the end of the day turn out automatons that will serve the State and not question it.
Now whether or not Mr. Bush meant all of this by his remarks, I don't know, but I took no issues with his excerpted comments.
I thought Jeb did a good job running Florida. I even posted that it’s possible I could support him under the right circumstance.
But it’s becoming clear that he is losing it. I wonder if it ever ocurred to him that the growing disparity between rich and poor might have something to do with the 12 million illegals he embraces.
Let's modify this statement for accuracy:
Mr. Jeeves Calls Gap Between Politically-Connected Finance Corporatists and Main Street Business Owners 'Un-American'
If Jeb dares to go down that road, he might find a lot of support. If he shuts up and does as he's told, instead, he'll be the next President.
Why doncha go back to Florida and work on that problem Jebby.
Nice to see this clown voluntarily take himself out of the running. Now I wait for DeMint to announce.
“Why we will never wish to have another Bush in the WH.”
Not to worry - Demoncrats run “unopposed” in 2016 (like their heros Chavez and Castro).
The country has enough of Bushes. Jeb showed his ineptness already back when faced with the killing of Terri Shiavo.
His point is CONSERVATIVE .....mobility into the middle and upper class is as conservative as you can get ....
Ever hear of lifting yourself by the bootstraps?
Or would you prefer that Obamas version of the world prevail ? ...which is that we have a permanent dependent class ?
The raw stupidity that goes with Bush hatred is mind boggling
All it really takes is hard work. The trouble is the victim class is taught that work is bad and doing nothing is admirable.
JEB, SHUT THE F*** UP. You are NOT going to be the nominee in ‘16, unless the RINOs break from the GOP!!
When the Bush’s move into section 8 housing, I’ll believe him. Other wise he’s talking about all the other guys not them....
This is more foolish than anything his older brother said.
In 2016, another Bushie GOP nomination or e-GOP means a third party. 5/6 popular vote loses for e-GOP candidates only means another loss.
A rapid implosion now is better than a slow decline into slavery.