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Jeb Bush: People Need to Work Longer Hours [W: 64]

Jeb's no fun. His idea leaves less time for drugs, alcohol, sex and gratuitous violence on TV. What am I supposed to make of that? Do I have to become a porn star just to work it all into a job? That does it. He's promoting porn. I never thought I'd see the day...
 
He might have meant it but that's not what he actually said. He didn't actually say anything like that.

I do find it funny that the party that made "You didn't build that" into a national election issue is whining about taking quotes out of context. What's good for the goose and all that.

And this from the party that relied on the Supreme Court to tell the nation what the Democrats meant when they said the ACA wasn't really a tax and the federal subsidies didn't apply only to state exchanges.
 
And this from the party that relied on the Supreme Court to tell the nation what the Democrats meant when they said the ACA wasn't really a tax and the federal subsidies didn't apply only to state exchanges.

Great point....:roll:
 
Oh you people are so pathetic.

He isn't saying hours of the week, but adopting what every other nation is doing and that is raising the age of retirement.

:doh

The left is seriously desperate to resort to this. :lamo
 
Oh you people are so pathetic.

He isn't saying hours of the week, but adopting what every other nation is doing and that is raising the age of retirement.

:doh

The left is seriously desperate to resort to this. :lamo

Right!

If only the peons would work 'til they drop...our productivity would go up...and the rich would have a much better life.

I dunno. Why does anyone think stuff like this is a good idea?
 
Liberals taking things out of context, imagine that.

The Obama economy is a part-time, low wage economy. We need good paying, full time jobs. Electing Democrats will not get you work.
 
Right!

If only the peons would work 'til they drop...our productivity would go up...and the rich would have a much better life.

I dunno. Why does anyone think stuff like this is a good idea?

No one...including Jeb Bush. Way to misunderstand what he said though, lib.
 
Still waiting for conservatives to apologize for misconstruing Obama's statements (e.g. 'You didn't build that') during the last election.
 
No one...including Jeb Bush. Way to misunderstand what he said though, lib.

I most assuredly am not a "lib"...and I suspect my comment, although just thinly veiled sarcasm, is probably a heck of a lot closer to the truth than they stuff you are peddling, Warrior.
 
Liberals taking things out of context, imagine that.

The Obama economy is a part-time, low wage economy. We need good paying, full time jobs. Electing Democrats will not get you work.

..and voting for the GOP will solve that problem, how?
 
..and voting for the GOP will solve that problem, how?

Well, for starters, I imagine by agreeing with (among other groups) Unions and getting rid of Obamacare's 30-hour workweek burdens.
 
Still waiting for conservatives to apologize for misconstruing Obama's statements (e.g. 'You didn't build that') during the last election.

Why? He just called wealthy people "society's lottery winners"....insinuating that they are just lucky and didnt work hard for what they have. Lizzy Warren said the same thing as Obama said....this type of insanity is clearly in the radical liberal agenda of wealth redistribution. They call it "income inequality"...well....they only want you can get income equality is to rob, cheat, and steal from successful people....and that doesnt just mean the mega wealthy, that means the middle class has to lower their standard of living as well. Sorry if I dont feel like having less when I worked for more.

But I get accused for being greedy because I want to reap the fruits of my labor. :doh

I most assuredly am not a "lib"...and I suspect my comment, although just thinly veiled sarcasm, is probably a heck of a lot closer to the truth than they stuff you are peddling, Warrior.

Actually no its not.

..and voting for the GOP will solve that problem, how?

Stop taxing the balls off people so they can create and grow businesses and create jobs....which will improve the economy...which will actually increase tax revenue....and will actually grow the GDP so maybe, just maybe, we will have an economy bigger than our national debt again, unlike what it is under Obama the regulator in chief.
 
Well, for starters, I imagine by agreeing with (among other groups) Unions and getting rid of Obamacare's 30-hour workweek burdens.

Who in the GOP agree with unions? Also, companies cutting costs by having workers either a.) take on the duties of more than one person's job b.) paying the lowest wage possible/not increasing wages to keep up with inflation and c.) shifting the burden of benefits like retirement/health care etc....on the worker while at the same time increasing their bottom line off the backs of workers is hardly a new concept. I don't see the GOP being a champion of workers much less speaking out against this sort of stuff.
 
Stop taxing the balls off people so they can create and grow businesses and create jobs....which will improve the economy...which will actually increase tax revenue....and will actually grow the GDP so maybe, just maybe, we will have an economy bigger than our national debt again, unlike what it is under Obama the regulator in chief.

Taxes have nothing to do with the trend.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/as-do...ncial-bounty-goes-to-investors-161616134.html

Over the past five years, total profits of the current Dow 30 members surged by more than 42% through the end of 2014, to nearly $320 billion. This has driven the average annual profit per employee up by more than 34% since 2009, to $48,887. It hardly bears repeating that wages across the U.S. economy have barely grown at all in recent years beyond the general rate of inflation.

Most of the financial bounty from this corporate renaissance has gone to investors (and the top corporate executives who reap rewards from higher share prices).
There are a variety of forces pushing this trend, many of them underway for decades.

Two generations of corporate executives have been steeped in the productivity ethic, a constant imperative to do more with less, to substitute automation technology for human workers and to defend profit margins zealously even in flush times. Globalization brought new competitors and low-cost labor in other world regions.

One could defend these companies by noting that if they’ve managed record profits while keeping payrolls lean, it says they didn’t need to hire any more people after all.
 
If you're interested,try Google. The story is still there somewhere, the GOP won't be able to bury this.

Just saw the story on Yahoo. Jeb immediately clarified his statement that too many people are jobless and are not able to work enough.
 
The central problem is that Jeb's comment belies a childish understanding of the economy.

Childish? That's putting it mildly. No surprise to me Jebby Boy would say such inanity when he seriously believes all it takes to override Obamacare is a Apple watch and some vague description of a heart monitor app to go with it. The man is a disconnect no different from his brother who also found himself in trouble speaking when the silver spoon was removed from his mouth.
 
Who in the GOP agree with unions?

Well, unions' think that Obamacare's effects on work are negative. We agree. :)

Also, companies cutting costs by having workers either a.) take on the duties of more than one person's job b.) paying the lowest wage possible/not increasing wages to keep up with inflation and c.) shifting the burden of benefits like retirement/health care etc....on the worker while at the same time increasing their bottom line off the backs of workers is hardly a new concept. I don't see the GOP being a champion of workers much less speaking out against this sort of stuff.

:shrug: if you don't think that the GOP is in favor of work and workers, you haven't been paying attention. That's not really their fault.
 
Childish? That's putting it mildly. No surprise to me Jebby Boy would say such inanity when he seriously believes all it takes to override Obamacare is a Apple watch and some vague description of a heart monitor app to go with it. The man is a disconnect no different from his brother who also found himself in trouble speaking when the silver spoon was removed from his mouth.

Now you're sounding like Ann Richards.

 
Right!

If only the peons would work 'til they drop...our productivity would go up...and the rich would have a much better life.

I dunno. Why does anyone think stuff like this is a good idea?



Get with the modern times....you Amerikan liberals live in the last century, FFS Canada out socialists you and we have raised the retirement age. Man I have been listening to this whine all my life, whine, whine, whine....'why do I have to work for a living.' Six decades I've been listening to you guys bitch and bellyache....enough

Maybe if you didn't have to spend so much on an alleged health care plan maybe you'd have some left over.
 
Well, unions' think that Obamacare's effects on work are negative. We agree. :)



:shrug: if you don't think that the GOP is in favor of work and workers, you haven't been paying attention. That's not really their fault.

Please tell me how the GOP cares about workers.
 
Eh, before my time.

To put her in perspective of your time, she was governor of Texas and was Karl Rove's first big test to beat as GW Bush's attack dog and that's when GW Bush became governor of Texas just before becoming president. That woman was sooooooo funny. She had an incredible speaking style that had the right amount of comedic pause and delivery. Worked well for her in politics. Below is a link to 7 minute story she told about the TSA back in 2004. Funny to see if you got the time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LA1dfHqLTc
 
Get with the modern times....you Amerikan liberals live in the last century, FFS Canada out socialists you and we have raised the retirement age. Man I have been listening to this whine all my life, whine, whine, whine....'why do I have to work for a living.' Six decades I've been listening to you guys bitch and bellyache....enough

Maybe if you didn't have to spend so much on an alleged health care plan maybe you'd have some left over.

Man you totally obliterated that straw man there. Congrats.
 
Taxes have nothing to do with the trend.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/as-do...ncial-bounty-goes-to-investors-161616134.html

Over the past five years, total profits of the current Dow 30 members surged by more than 42% through the end of 2014, to nearly $320 billion. This has driven the average annual profit per employee up by more than 34% since 2009, to $48,887. It hardly bears repeating that wages across the U.S. economy have barely grown at all in recent years beyond the general rate of inflation.

Most of the financial bounty from this corporate renaissance has gone to investors (and the top corporate executives who reap rewards from higher share prices).
There are a variety of forces pushing this trend, many of them underway for decades.

Two generations of corporate executives have been steeped in the productivity ethic, a constant imperative to do more with less, to substitute automation technology for human workers and to defend profit margins zealously even in flush times. Globalization brought new competitors and low-cost labor in other world regions.

One could defend these companies by noting that if they’ve managed record profits while keeping payrolls lean, it says they didn’t need to hire any more people after all.

Its not about those companies, its about the smaller companies that CANT grow due to taxes and regulations. The conglomerates PREFER that taxes and regulations stay high...it doesnt affect them one bit, they can afford the lawyers and lobbyists anyway.
 
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