Discussion: Jeb On ‘Work Longer Hours’ Comment: I Meant People Need To Work Full Time

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“It didn’t work?..Okay, what I MEANT to say was…”

Bitch about the Liberal Media too while you’re at it.

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Sorry, Jeb. You just had your 47% moment.

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Jebbers: I meant people need to work full time…
You know, 18 hours each day, 7 days each week–full time. What?

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“You can take it out of context all you want, but high-sustained growth means that people work 40 hours rather than 30 hours and that by our success, they have money, disposable income for their families to decide how they want to spend it rather than getting in line and being dependent on government,” Bush said in a Veterans of Foreign Wars town hall in New Hampshire.

People like Jeb and Mitt Romney make me want to puke. Both of them had their comfy lives paved for them from the very start. They hardly had to exert themselves to achieve success in life. But they are happy to lecture others about how they should put their nose to the grindstone. And if you want people who are dependent upon government, look no further than career politicians.
F you.

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Telling someone who’s working two part-time jobs to make ends meet that they need to work longer hours isn’t any better. Even on his own terms it still shows how out of touch he is.

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Yes, why don’t you go to your big corporation buddies and tell them to hire people at 40 hours a week, raise their minimum wage, give them sick leave and annual leave and health insurance too. Is that what Jeb Bush is saying? I don’t think so, I think that what he is saying is Americans need to quit lazing around and work like a dog, or even old people need to work until they die. I think that is what Jeb Bush is really saying.

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That didn’t take too long. But for anyone watching, and that includes everyone in the GOP campaign (which is starting to seem like everyone in the GOP…another one joined the fray yesterday), Bush is bleeding in the water. It won’t be long now before someone(s) start up the attacks about his continual backtracking on nearly everything he says.

I can easily see this moment in one of the debates:

JEB: “And I firmly believe blah, blah, blah…and will do yadda yadda yadda about it if elected!”

Moderator: “Candidate X, would you like to respond?”

Candidate X: “In just a few minutes. I want to wait for Governor Bush to issue his clarification and then his re- clarification so I know what I should be responding to”

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this is more proof the gooper campaign is not a clown car but the short bus

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Yaaaaaawn. Wake me when he proposes legislation restricting the ability of industry giants like Walmart to abuse their employees by deliberately providing nothing but low-paying part-time jobs in order to make an end-run around laws such as those that mandate the provision of health insurance.

Until then, he’s just circumlocuting his real position, which is that employers should, in fact, be not only allowed to do such things, but incentivized to do them.

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Jebbie needs to keep that Etch-a-Sketch handy.

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And what he says he meant was still offensive.

But still, if “what he meant” was different than “what he said” why not just say what you mean to begin with? Typical of modern politicians - and a good indication of how completely worthless and out of touch they are.

The only people I can think of that need to “work more hours” are the rich folk like Jeb!?! and his ilk. Seems to me that those “job creators” aren’t really pulling their weight (not that they ever have).

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Get used to wearing that loop of anchor chain around your neck, Jeb.

Go talk to, oh, everyone, employed in a non-management position in retail about the need to work longer hours. They have been ready since they started their jobs. What are you planning to do about it?

If your answer is just some camouflaged package of reduced benefits/rights/protection for workers, add another loop of chain.

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JEB, the Mulligan president…

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Whoa Whoa Whoa…hold on there sparky!

He said people need to work more hours, not become socialists!

Of course, the “job creators” control all those things and more, not the people who actually work. But still, I’m pretty sure that what he “meant to say” did not include any of the (logical) items you have enumerated.

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Handy? He has been using it overtime and we haven’t even had the first GOP debate yet.

JEB seems to think he can blunder through the nomination on just sheer money. I may be wrong, but I suspect there is going to a real eye opening experience during the first few contests. Like, JEB does poorly in Iowa, finishing in the bottom half, doesn’t win NH outright, and doesn’t place in the top 3 out of SC. And the horse race press begins savaging his campaign.

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I agree with you. Josh wrote an excellent piece in his Editor’s Blog. He made the point that I immediately had when I first heard about JEB’s “47%” gaffe.

There’s a HUGE difference between “people need to work longer hours” and “people need more full-time work.” The latter I would say most Americans agree with, including me. But try convincing corporate America of that. I believe POTUS was trying to curry favor from them back in 2010 when unemployment was scary high. They just shrugged and said there was nothing they could do. Eventually, some people have gotten work but there’s still too much competition for jobs and the titans of industry want it that way.

So, unless JEB can entice corporate America to provide those “longer hours” he really needs to STFU.

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When it came to businesses making workers accept less that 40 hours to end paying employee benefits, Jeb ! had no problem kicking American workers to the curb. Now when it comes out how destructive that was to the economy and workers, he has to admit it was a really, really bad idea for the middle class?

Jeb ! got caught having to tell the truth.

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Tax Cuts!

(that will solve any problem - you know that’s what’s coming)

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but high-sustained growth … that by our success, they have money, disposable income for their families to decide how they want to spend it

I think he has that flipped. People having money and disposable income for their families to spend is what produces sustained growth, hence the need for minimum/living wage legislation to get that money into the pockets of the poor and working classes so they can go out and spend that money thus growing the economy.

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