Jeb Bush: Americans “need to work longer hours”

[phantom power]

“My aspiration for the country and I believe we can achieve it is 4% 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. Means that people need to work longer hours and through their productivity gain more income for their families.”

[randys1]

1. Did he actually really say that? He has not worked one hour in his entire life, not one.

Nobody he knows has.

jesus, talk about a need for a revolution

[City Lights]

2. FUCK YOU, John! nt

[TexasBushwhacker]

3. No, the answer is putting more people to work

That would increase productivity too. What a doofus.

[tymorial]

4. Apparently Jeb hasn't read this:

http://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/cs201/projects/crunchmode/econ-hours-productivity.html

and this:

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/everything-you-know-about-productivity-is-wrong/

oh and this:

http://lifehacker.com/more-productivity-myths-debunked-by-science-and-commo-514253858

Oh look at that... Europe works less and is as productive if not more. Funny

http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/aug2009/gb20090818_398605.htm

[calikid]

9. I wouldn't be suprised to find out he can't read.

[appalachiablue]

35. Same-

JEB! = Just Elect Bernie!

[Initech]

5. Says the guy who comes from a family that has more money than god.

[KamaAina]

6. This explains why he's all up in Lee Mercer, Jr.'s house with disease!!1!!!11!!

[Brickbat]

7. What the fuck is this bullshit right here. Productivity is the highest its been.

Participation is indeed low. But people with jobs working longer hours isn't going to boost participation AAAAAA WHY AM I TRYING TO BE LOGICAL HERE AAAAAAAAAAAA BRAIN ASPLODE.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

8. Tell that to your half ass part time of a governor useless piece of shit brother, you

assclown.

[calikid]

13. Now, tell us how you really feel, LOL

I love it Mr. Corngood

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

14. I'm a poet, at heart. nt

[whatchamacallit]

10. 4% growth for the 1%

Yeah, fuck you Jeb.

[CTyankee]

11. Next up: a change in the child labor laws.

What made this country great was the use of child labor in our factories (not to mention the black child labor in the fields of the old South). what he is saying is that our modern economy was built on the back of such labor and the resulting wealth was enjoyed by such as he and his family.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

22. And the enslavement of people serving time in prison forcing them to work for nothing

Hell, that's already happening. I was listening to a report on Pacifica radio today that shocked me. Some prisoners are made to work for 10 cents an hour and are assessed with fines for a variety of things that their families on the outside have to pay off. There's a boycott of McDonald's for profiting from forced prison labor.

https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/2012/may/15/prison-slave-labor-replaces-freeworld-workers-in-down-economy/

[appalachiablue]

34. Peonage, Debt Bondage for their families costs? We really are back to the Gilded Age

and full on James Crow, Jr. like Douglas A. Blackmon wrote in his Pulitzer Prize winning book, "Slavery by Another Name" (2010) that was made into a 90 min. PBS documentary in 2012, watch online.

http://www.pbs.org/tpt/slavery-by-another-name/home/

[appalachiablue]

32. Gingrich already said a few years ago nothing wrong with a kid working as a janitor

in his school. Right, so he can be paid half and save the owners more $. A couple years ago Newt bought Calista $500,000 worth of diamonds from Tiffany's at Tyson's, VA from his lobbyist work in DC.
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[RandySF]

12. His 47% moment

[olddots]

15. Jeb should get a job mowing gravel

( hey its a stretch )

[Octafish]

16. They don't call him the ''smart one'' for nothing.

Evil as the day is long, too.

[hay rick]

21. Would a "smarter" Bush be a good thing?

I didn't think so.

[realFedUp]

17. How many hours did u work for Barclay and Chase millions?

Soulless. Republicans have no morals, no soul, no truth.

[sadoldgirl]

18. How about this,Jeb:

We will all work as hard as your famous brother did,
when he was in office. That will increase productivity, eh?

[Solly Mack]

19. Bite me, asshole.

[global1]

20. I Can't Wait Until Bernie Pounces On That Statement.....nt

[lonestarnot]

23. Fuck you know nothing bushitler.

[HeiressofBickworth]

24. Coming from the guy

whose brother thought it was a great American thing that a woman had three jobs just to get by.

And whose mother thought that refugees from Hurricane Katrina in the Houston football stadium had it better than they did at home before the hurricane.

And whose father had never seen a cash register in a grocery store.

The whole bunch of them are culturally BLIND and should NEVER be in positions of public trust. They should just stay at home and count their money and leave the rest of the country (and the world!) alone.

[Person 2713]

29. You said it . The whole family doesn't know shit about everyday people

[appalachiablue]

36. +1 Thanks for the (awful) reminders.

[bklyncowgirl]

25. We must work harder to serve our masters. Screw you Jeb.

I have to admit that when I heard this I started screaming at the TV. My husband came out of the bathroom saying 'are you yelling at the TV again" When I told him what Bush said he started yelling too.

[Hiraeth]

26. how about you take a long walk on a short pier, Jeb

[tammywammy]

27. fuck you JEB!

Production in the area I work in has gone up 5x from a few years ago. We produce better quality data and faster. Our customer is constantly asking for faster and faster turn around and we're meeting their demands.

[lumberjack_jeff]

28. Jeb, you fucking moron.

Longer hours per worker decreases the workforce participation rate.

What the fuck is it with Bushes? Give 'em the best goddamn education that this country has to offer and they say shit like this.

Remember this video clip the next time someone asks "should someone without a college degree be allowed to run for president?". Jeb Bush is a great argument for the answer; "hell yes".

[gratuitous]

30. What's your reasoning there, Jeb!?

After all, since 1980, American workers have been working more hours and working more productively and wages have remained flatlined that entire time. Of all the additional Wealth generated by Labor in the last 35 years, damned little of it has gone into working people's pockets. So your prescription is that we all need to be like Boxer in Animal Farm: I must work harder.

When do you think some of that Wealth is going to trickle into our pockets like it's been gushing into yours, Jeb!? We've been doing what you say we should do for 35 years. How much more are you making this year than you made in 1980? When will we see that kind of increase?

Because otherwise, it sounds like so much bullshit to me.

[appalachiablue]

37. I guess we're Greeks now. I like the culture and democracy part but..

[PowerToThePeople]

31. FU Jeb, you fucking taker.

What have you ever fucking done to create ANY value in this nation?

[Tatiana La Belle]

33. When? When we're sleeping?

How out of touch can you get?

[Monk06]

38. Jeb, "I love work. I could watch it all day long and never get bored of it !!"

[SteveG]

39. Apparently he doesn't know

that if you make over $23,000 a year you are not eligible for overtime and can be required to work 80 hours a week. How the hell does that extra work increase that poor slobs income?

[subterranean]

40. Longer working hours do NOT equal higher productivity.

In fact, study after study has shown that after a certain point, longer hours often have the opposite effect. Any candidate who thinks Americans working more and more hours would magically produce 4% growth "as far as the eye can see" is a clueless idiot who is unfit to be president.

[eppur_se_muova]

41. Exactly. Europeans work much fewer hours, but have higher productivity.

("Fewer hours" per year includes longer vacations, family/maternity leave. etc.)

[Orsino]

42. You can identify a clueless Bubble Boy...

...by the way he'll accidentally speak honestly without realizing how terribly, awfully bad he sounds.

This jackass shouldn't be running a PTA refreshments committee.

[user_name]

43. Have you ever noticed

that the wealthy define their own work very differently from others' work? They believe that they work harder and longer hours than everyone else because of the way that they define they're own work. Playing golf = work, reading = work, travel = work, shopping = work, etc. But, for everyone else, they define work as only those activities which the wealthy would like to pay for. Since the wealthy don't want to pay others for much, others don't work as hard as they do.

[B Calm]

44. He's on Spin Cycle today! LOL