Keep digging, JEB! There’s a pony down there somewhere…
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Note: If you put your nose to the grindstone all you achieve is a flat face.
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Now now. That Etch A Sketch is the best Teleprompter he’s ever owned.
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Everybody was worried about Obama changing the nation anthem but they should be really worried about Bush III
When following a comment a politician must for days later state “I meant…” tells one how out of touch they are with reality.
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So who exactly does he think is working part time by choice?
Oh yeah … students, those lazy sons of guns.
Let’s see him pull his other foot out of his mouth now.
Here’s his full quote:
My aspirations for the country, and I believe we can achieve it, is for 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.
I don’t see how someone says that when they mean to say that part-time workers should have the opportunity to work full-time. And is he talking about growth for growth’s sake? If people are happy with the income they provide for their families, they’re not going to work more hours and be less happy. If they’re not happy with their income they don’t need Jeb telling them to work more hours. Basically it’s a kind of lazy-shaming that asks workers to work their butts off for the fuzzy goal of national economic growth.
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Yeah, people need to work full time.
Please explain how it comes to pass that, with I suspect few if any exceptions, the corporate tycoon sonsofbitches that force people to work part time so they don’t have to provide benefits will be voting for a Republican in 2016, and have done so since they were just young aspiring corporate tycoon sonsofbitches?
That or they expect people on salary to work for 60+ hours and get paid for 40. My VP actually told me I was working too many hours, so I said, “why? has the schedule changed?” It hadn’t, so…
They expect you to work the 60 hour weeks, they just don’t like being aware of it.
JEB: "OH Crap ! what do you want to hear ?.. What ever that is - just assume that was what I meant "
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His mother knew that he was dimmer than brother George. Remember she opined that Jeb shouldn’t run saying that he would be one Bush too many. Its chokes me to have to say that George W. was smarter than anyone.
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Note that Bush never said a word about raising the wages of workers. Productivity of workers has increased 74.4% since 1973 but wages have increased only 9.2%. Taking cost of living increases into consideration, wages have actually DECREASED.
Meanwhile Corporate profits are high and CEO pay is now more than 300 times more than the average worker. They can easily afford to pay workers more!
With higher wages people will have more money to spend and boost the economy.
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This is nothing - to a Bush. This won’t touch him a bit.
GW routinely made massively idiotic statements back in 2000.
*“It’s important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It’s not only life of babies, but it’s life of children living in, you know, the dark dungeons of the internet.”
"I will have a foreign-handed foreign policy."
"I want you to know that farmers are not going to be secondary thoughts to a Bush administration. They will be in the forethought of our thinking."
"This is a world that is much more uncertain than the past. In the past we were certain, we were certain it was us versus the Russians in the past. We were certain, and therefore we had huge nuclear arsenals aimed at each other to keep the peace. That’s what we were certain of … You see, even though it’s an uncertain world, we’re certain of some things. We’re certain that even though the ‘evil empire’ may have passed, evil still remains. We’re certain there are people that can’t stand what America stands for … We’re certain there are madmen in this world, and there’s terror, and there’s missiles and I’m certain of this, too: I’m certain to maintain the peace, we better have a military of high morale, and I’m certain that under this administration, morale in the military is dangerously low."*
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Good point. Thing is, when Jeb! said people should work more hours, he wasn’t talking to those people - he was talking to the megadonors who cut those peoples’ hours. The tell is, once he figured out lazy-shaming people who are already working as much as the can doesn’t play well, he came up with the laziest excuse ever* and still doesn’t lift a finger to get corporations to change their employment policies.
- until next week’s gaffe.
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Best laugh I had all day.
If he hadn’t caused so much pain and misery we might be looking back at him like Gerald Ford.
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And Mitt will be waiting in the wings, as the prince on the white (dancing) horse…
So far I heard three talking heads explaining what Jeb meant. Jeb has problems being clear the first time. Personally, I believe he meant what he said the first time.
Yet another walkback from the Jebmeister.
What is the implication of Jeb continuously having to correct/enhance/restate his positions on nearly any policy item? Is this vacuous ninny really that ill informed or wishy washy? Who thinks this guy is qualified to be the point man in America’s growth and prosperity?
“What I really, REALLY meant to say was OTHER people need to work 40 hours a week.” Shit. If I could afford to work 40 hours a week, I’d do it in a heartbeat. Beats the hell out of the 50 hours a week I work now. Asswipe.