Right now those people have thirty-seven different candidates to choose from, so job one is to win their votes. If he says something that riles up Democrats, but sounds like common sense to those people, it’s a winner.
And as bad as we make it out to be, it’s spinnable for him.
Scott Walker has won three elections in a blueish-purple state by pitting people against public sector unions, where people supposedly get all kinds of kush benefits without working as hard as “regular” people. I think this is a winning issue for Jeb, even in the general.
The “work” remarks are all over Facebook, for starters, and it’ll stay in the blogosphere for a while while Heb figures out what to tell us what he really meant.
Heb released years of tax returns recently, and in 2012 he made $6 million, in 2013 $7.4 million and an overall wealth somewhere between $19 and $22 million.
No, Trump is not better… I just want Jebby to be soundly thrashed by his lesser… I think whoever is the GOTP nominee, we’re heading for a landslide. If Dems and Independents will get off their butts and VOTE.
This is S.O.P. for Americans, who put in more hours at work than people in almost every developed country. Our four kids LIVE at work. They have far less free time…and thanx to the cyberworld, they are ALWAYS connected to someone (as opposed to taking time out to reflect). Moreover, their work is more intense,scrutinized and regimented.
I would call myself an academic success, retiring with publicaions and a fair amount of consulting and presentations at conferences…yet, my career as a Professor was like a Boy Scout compared to the cyber-leash these poor kids are on:
For me there was
Mail by faculty mail box hung in the department office
Letters (not 40 emails a day) occasionally coming to one’s office
ten office hours per week
one telephone, which I left (gladly) when I left my office
People like Bush are also busy in a certain sense:
Counting Money…[oh…I forgot! that’s what accountants are for]
Exactly. Even taking him at his word that he meant that we need to get more people working full-time instead of part time, he’s making it sound as if part-time workers are lazy.
Part-time workers work the hours they get. They’re just supplying their own labor according to the demand. Jeb ought to be saying “we need to get employers to hire more full time workers”, or “we need to encourage employers to convert their part-time employees to full-time”. He’s focusing on the Supply in a Demand-Driven labor market.
Even so, he’s still out to lunch on the whole issue of rising productivity and flat worker pay. Conservatives love to talk about how the Workforce needs to be “incentivized”. Well worker productiivity has been going up steadily for the last 30+ years while worker pay has remained flat. That is a Dis-Incentive to Produce.
I worked as an Assistant Manager for a national retail chain in the 1980’s and we kept all our employees under 30 hours a week to avoid paying benefits. This practice was going on long before the ACA. The only difference now is that these employers use the ACA as an excuse not to pay benefits.
I don’t begrudge wealth…if it is acquired honestly and ethically. I do take offense when a wealthy person criticizes those who have acquired less yet work hard and for many hours perhaps at multiple jobs.
Jeb is currently unemployed so, wealthy or not, from my point of view he has no call to tell anyone they should work longer hours. It gives the impression, deserved or not, that he sees himself as better than someone else and “entitled”.
If Jeb! ever found himself working for a market wage, it would be the worst day in his, his extended family’s, and his 1000 closest friends’ lives. Combined. He would probably have to go home sick at noon.
Don’t you understand? When you’re born into a family like the Bush’s you may be wealthy, but you’re always on. There’s never a moment you’re not working to expand the families fortunes, have power meals, rushing hither and yon all for the purpose of fame, power and money. Sure, wage slaves may have to work 40+ hours per week for static wages/salaries, but to be of the Bush’s ilk is to be always on and no compensation is enough for that.
Jebby’s campaign theme: “Arbeit Macht Frei!” ____and you just know that was a favorite of Mommy Babs Bush!
It captures the the Bush Family’s kinder and gentler form of conservatism.
BTW: Just last year Gallup surveyed American workers and found that the average worker works for 47 hours a week. That’s nearly a full day on top of the 40 hour work week. Even worse, 18% of workers reported that they work over 60 hours a week. And to be lectured on this by a man who has a family compound, who seeks tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations, is astounding. FU*K YOU, JEB!
If Jeb! Bush! wants to blame anyone for an anemic recovery he says we’re having, he has only to look at how we got here in the first damn place. Go ask your brother George, Jeb!. KIng George did one hell of a number tanking the economy, and frankly, a lot of us are still trying to recover from that shit.
Fucking Bushes,…both were born with a silver foot in their mouths. Not a one of these GOP assholes would know how to run the country…especially another privileged out-of-touch Bush!