Does Jeb Bush Understand Economics?

Newsweek ^ | 7/10/15 | KURT EICHENWALD

[jimbo123]

Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush set off a firestorm this week by appearing to say in a newspaper interview that Americans should work longer hours. Democrats pounced, even as the Bush campaign said his comments were taken out of context.

But everyone is missing the real story. Whether Bush’s comment was a criticism of American workers or a lament about a weakened job market, his words demonstrated such a lack of knowledge of economics that it’s virtually impossible to understand what was the context of his words.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Wages will never rise as long as the labor market is continually flooded with fraudulently documented foreigners.

That’s why The Cheap Labor Express is so desperate to keep the borders open and the laws unenforced.

[Tula Git]

We don’t need no steenkin’ jobs.

[Tula Git]

We don’t need no steenkin’ jobs.

[Bobalu]

We don’t need no steenkin’ jobs

Thanks for that! You helped me refine the image :-)

[FredZarguna]

The GOP has wanted the illegal alien issue off the table since the 2006 amnesty attempt.

It's never going to be off the table. Once they're amnestied, we will continue to take a beating, forever.

Just a few examples of what comes next [use your wimpiest liberal voice to read it]:

• The "path to citizenship" takes too long. They've already been in this country for years or decades, it needs to accelerated.
• People who paid taxes for years just became citizens recently because of our foot dragging. They need to be credited for paying into Social Security since they day they came here.
• We treat Latino's like second-class citizens. Everything needs to be printed in Spanish and English. We can't have "language inequality."
• Americans have millions of relatives in Central America and Mexico who need to be green lighted to come and live in the United States. We can't keep breaking families apart because of bigots.
• Latinos are entitled to strict scrutiny as a protected class because of racism.
• Latinos shouldn't be racially profiled, even if they are involved in abut 75% of all trafficking crimes.

And so on, and so on, ad nauseam. Legalizing illegals is just the beginning of the process. It doesn't take anything off the table, and will only make the pleas for special treatments, quotas, and set-asides worse.

Bonus: all the Republican CoC types who thought they would continue to have virtual slave labor subsidized by US Taxpayers without fear of recrimination once amnesty kicked in will suddenly discover they have literally millions of new, very expensive, UNION MEMBERS on their hands. They deserve the Hell they are unleashing, as do African American Democrats and white trash welfare cases who will have to share an ever-decreasing slice of the pie from a bankrupt America. Unfortunately, the rest of us don't.

[Zathras]

Jeb is history.
Even the Liberals have abandoned propping him up.

[lonestar]

Heck! Does Jeb understand English?

[Terry L Smith]

As others have indicated in their responses to Jeb Bush’s reported ‘economics minus 101’, and adding in the past reporting that he has been a failure in business, true or not, it is clear that Jeb is not a communicator of legible ideas, aside from those ‘start in the middle with a circle’ flowcharts.

To paint a picture of “4% growth through tomorrow”, is on the same plane as that old ‘pie in the sky’ salesmanship, demonstrated in the musical “The Music Man”.

Just this week, the volatility of the commodities market, shows that his idea is meaningless.

How can the Jebster state we need to become more productive, when a VAST measurement of what used to be American manufacturing, has been moved offshore, with no means to re-coup the greater majority of it???

How can we, as a nation, bring forward the ‘gross national product’, with those damned illegal invaders he wants to have in his clusterbuck, taking jobs away from American citizens, at minimum wage or less?

Ya’s gots tuh make sumptin’ to have a product, as was once told to me in Junior Businsses of America.

[RIghtwardHo]

QUITE true.

[trisham]

He’s an idiot.

[central_va]

Jeb economics: Dad I need more money.

[samtheman]

He’s a definite downgrade when it comes to the Bush family.

[minnesota_bound]

He does understand if those that want cheap labor say to Jeb jump and he jumps that he will get a $100 million to run for president.