Jeb Bush: People Need to Work Longer Hours
Source: ABC News
Today, Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush, who as of-late has gone relatively gaffe-free, uttered a phrase that may not go over too well with the constituency he seeks to reach. During an interview that was live-streamed on the app Periscope, Bush told New Hampshires The Union Leader that to grow the economy, people should work longer hours.
He was answering a question about his plans for tax reform and responded:
My aspiration for the country and I believe we can achieve it, is 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. That's the only way we're going to get out of this rut that we're in.
Already the Democratic National Committee has pounced, releasing a statement that calls his remarks easily one of the most out-of-touch comments weve heard so far this cycle, adding that Bush would not fight for the middle class as president.
Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/jeb-bush-people-work-longer-hours/story?id=32313997
randys1
(16,286 posts)If everyone reading this is not FUCKING IRATE
then you are dead
SusanCalvin
(6,592 posts)I'm livid.
Reter
(2,188 posts)Because this will sink his campaign.
SusanCalvin
(6,592 posts)Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)many either don't read newspapers, internet.
People who watch Fox News will like that. They will want to work longer hours for less pay. They love to vote against their own interest.
Dustlawyer
(10,493 posts)Longer hours and longer work life. Explain that to a guy that works as a laborer in construction that his back needs to last until he is 70 years old!
onecent
(6,096 posts)wordpix
(18,652 posts)I think he left the FL gov job in 2012 but correct me if I'm wrong
corkhead
(6,119 posts)no, being governor doesn't count.
gregcrawford
(2,382 posts)... which of my three jobs should I work longer at to make your scumbag cronies richer? Just askin'...
Helen Borg
(3,963 posts)Freelance jobs?
Delmette
(522 posts)Remember when George was confronted at a town hall meeting by a woman who worked three jobs. All he did was laugh. He had no reply for her.
They are both lacking empathy for the working people of this world.
gregcrawford
(2,382 posts)... is the hallmark of a sociopath. I remember how delighted Dubya was to tell us all, "I'm a WAR president! Heh! Heh! Heh!"
Delmette
(522 posts)Cleita
(75,480 posts)picking cotton or something, twelve hours a day for a year. Then they can offer opinions on labor and not before.
forsaken mortal
(112 posts)Let him go out to the construction workers that are pouring sweat as they build houses in 110 degree heat from sun-up to sun-down and tell them that they aren't working hard enough. I'm sure they'll agree with his entitled candy-ass.
RKP5637
(67,032 posts)Ruby the Liberal
(26,217 posts)Work longer hours, for the same pay, and if you are 'lucky', they will fire every other coworker so that each person does the job of 2 people, freeing up the newly unemployed to work elsewhere.
Awesome sauce. I think he's figured out the solution!
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)logosoco
(3,208 posts)fuck you. Just fuck you.
BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)peacefreak
(2,939 posts)HFRN
(1,469 posts)working harder and harder
for less and less
on the same trendline since 1973
while the top 1 percent go from pharaohs to ultra pharaohs
Hydra
(14,459 posts)Welcome to DU!
Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)nxylas
(6,440 posts)Because daggum it, they're going to be the ultra pharaohs one day, and they sure as h-e-double-toothpicks don't want to have to pay taxes when they do.
HFRN
(1,469 posts)leaves more than 99% with the latter
even among those who buy it
RiverNoord
(1,150 posts)potone
(1,701 posts)He obviously has no idea how hard most people are working. This could be the equivalent of his father not seeming to know how a scanner worked at a grocery store (he actually did, so that wasn't really fair). All any other candidate has to do is to point out the statistics that show that Americans on average work longer hours than the workers in most industrialized countries, and for less pay, and I think he will be toast. And he is supposed to be the reasonable Republican candidate.
may have known about scanner technology, but what sunk him was that he had no Idea that they were being used in stores. It showed how out of touch he was because lackeys did his shopping for him.
Moonwalk
(2,322 posts)...in a cart at once, rather than having to scan them one by one. This was misunderstood as him not knowing that stores used scanners, which sunk him as not being in touch with average folk who go to grocery stores. He wasn't in touch with average folk who go to grocery stores, but his amazement at that scanner wasn't evidence of that. It's a false meme.
Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)Any evidence of a scanner like that existing even now, let alone when senior was President?
caraher
(6,276 posts)see below
Moonwalk
(2,322 posts)But I did know that his "amazement" over the scanner wasn't that it just scanned bar codes, as most people surmised.
gregcrawford
(2,382 posts)... scan all the groceries in a cart at once? You're kidding, right?
caraher
(6,276 posts)it read ripped labels (see below)
caraher
(6,276 posts)But according to the AP, the scanner in question was designed to read ripped or wrinkled barcodes
Feb. 11, 1992 2:35 PM ET
WASHINGTON (AP) _ It turns out the supermarket scanner that drew President Bush's attention at a grocers' convention last week really did have some unusual features.
It can read labels - the so-called universal product codes - that are ripped up and jumbled.
That is apparently what prompted Bush to tell the National Grocers Association in Orlando Feb. 4 he was ''amazed'' by the technology.
Weirdly, there apparently once was a Snopes piece on this, but I can only find it in web archives, not on the current Snopes site.
erronis
(14,955 posts)This is at least what stuck with me.
The honchos of the universe/free-world/USA aren't at all in touch with the 99.9% that need their income to be able to afford milk and rent and real-life expenses. It's easy for them to talk about the 47% or the 4% growth - they've never been poor, they've never had to juggle living expenses.
SusanCalvin
(6,592 posts)Sounds like his 47% to me.
Makes a lot of sense, right? Those of us who are employed work longer hours, so the unemployment rate stays up, so people are desperate for jobs, so they can pay us less....
tavalon
(27,985 posts)But unfortunately, he's our HRC. The primary voters will not be enthused by him but when his massive war chest makes him the frontrunner, they will dutifully line up behind him. This is, sadly, a minor misstep, not a battleship sinking one. It should be, but it's not.
SusanCalvin
(6,592 posts)Plus people will have forgotten it by the primaries, much less the general.
At least it made NPR this pm.
tavalon
(27,985 posts)Better than I hoped.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)I hope he is toast.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)jtuck004
(15,882 posts)saved a thousand more, if only they knew they were slaves".
Harriet Tubman
Those people were in freakin' slavery, yet when you read her stories, half of the time she could not convince them that the unknown life beyond the plantation was better than the one they had.
And they were unschooled.
The 400 million or so here have had increasingly efficient formal training in acquiescence to authority. I think Harriet Tubman, if she were alive today, would just say fuck it and move somewhere else.
Fyi: When you go out to save them, wear a bulletproof vest, just in case they don't want to be saved, would rather see the world burn down around both of you than agree with you.
They will do that just on principle. And I know that from experience.
global1
(25,168 posts)ms liberty
(8,479 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Do you really think American people will buy this shit? Bye bye John Ellis Bush and good riddance.
lastlib
(22,981 posts)the time he withdraws his sorry little azz and drags it back to his new "vacation home" in Connecticut!
Hell, I want to see it on his fuckin' tombstone! (The sooner, the better!)
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Bye Bye Dippshit.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)working today? Especially those who work low-income jobs.
Demeter
(85,373 posts)jwirr
(39,215 posts)Geronimoe
(1,539 posts)It is the same failed polices of the last 34 years, trickle down economics.
Earth_First
(14,910 posts)That's in addition to my family life and maintaining our home.
Jeb Bush: GFYS!
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)as well as CEO pay. Workers pay, however, is stagnant. Hey Jeb- go pound sand up your ass while nailing jello to a tree.
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)your output! You could be making making us more money, you lazy little shits!"
Skittles
(152,967 posts)they will lower your wages but you can make up for it by working more hours! Ain't life SWELL!!!
Blackjackdavey
(177 posts)Then you just get to work more.
niyad
(112,435 posts)most of them would get me banned.
tazkcmo
(7,286 posts)You can off load on Republicans all you want. Have at it! You might feel better. Like this...
You low life , POS mf-er! Your silver spoon is shoved so far up your butt your brain has less oxygen. You piss ant, you wouldn't know what real work is like if it slapped your devil spawning mother up side her evil head.
niyad
(112,435 posts)tavalon
(27,985 posts)articulate and um, artful, yeah, artful. LOL
Baitball Blogger
(46,576 posts)Martin Eden
(12,803 posts)And while we're at it, let's share the fruits of our labor more equitably so that Bush and his ilk don't skim so much off the top.
Saviolo
(3,270 posts)"Quality time" was a con perpetrated on the North American family to make up for the Quantity Time that they were missing in the 70's due to working longer hours.
It was marketed as a liberation ideal:
The first use of the phrase that I've found is from the Maryland newspaper The Capital, January 1973, in a piece headed 'How To Be Liberated':
The major goal of each of these role changes is to give a woman time to herself, Ms. Burton explained."A woman's right and responsibility is to be self fulfilling," she said. She gives "quality time" rather than "quantity time" to each task, whether it be writing, cleaning the house or tending the children.
But it seems to be that it was a darkly cynical corporate invention to squeeze more productivity out of people. Work harder! Don't worry about all that quantity time you're missing with your family, make up for it with quality time! Corporations have always been quick to exploit women's lib and turn it into marketing, as they did with "torches of freedom" (cigarettes). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torches_of_Freedom
Martin Eden
(12,803 posts)To me, quality time with the family has always meant having MORE time available to spend with family (meaning: work fewer hours).
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)Jeb wants us to work longer hours for less pay.
Jeb the facsist (just like his brother) his channeling his inner Franco.
End Of The Road
(1,397 posts)I can hardly make it 8 hrs without strangling Humming Moran in adjacent cubicle. Don't push me.
Kingofalldems
(38,361 posts)Very revealing also.
C Moon
(12,188 posts)Auggie
(31,067 posts)BeyondGeography
(39,284 posts)How do you think their wealth grew in the first place?
Btw, Joe Strummer says fuck you, Jeb:
Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)Getting time to expropriate the expropriators.
kairos12
(12,817 posts)bucolic_frolic
(42,678 posts)They're going to work longer hours too? Doing what, exactly?
Shrike47
(6,913 posts)Employers intentionally keep workers below benefit hours to save money so the CEO can get a bigger yacht. Those who work part time but would like full time need to have the opportunity to work more hours....
Well, maybe.
On edit: now I've read the full article. Asshole meant work harder, more than the 45 - 60 you already work. Piss on him.
47of74
(18,470 posts)Both that fuckstick Jeb and that fuckstick Shrub make me fucking sick.
Coventina
(26,874 posts)Otherwise, STFU.
americannightmare
(322 posts)what I've felt for some time now, that economics and business management are religious studies, there's no thinking going on, just belief, belief in neoliberal and neoconservative economic policies. How else to explain how stupid they sound when they spew this crap? What he is describing is a similar principle to cutting taxes on the rich and corporations: if cutting taxes for this group created jobs, we'd be swimming in jobs!!! If working overtime meant economic growth, we'd have his bloody 4 percent growth!!! Meanwhile, conservatives want to cut the availability of overtime and cut overtime pay (not that anyone should have to work overtime to earn a decent living). No reasonable person could show a path to the kind of economic growth he is talking about, or any for that matter. There will never again be any significant economic growth in this country, even a WPA-style infrastructure program couldn't pull it off, but that's no reason not to do it! The cost of responding to/mitigating climate change alone will prevent significant growth, not to mention this little problem with the financial shenanigans on Wall Street.
vlakitti
(401 posts)Digby quotes a New York Times commentary about productivity:
"Between 1979 and 2014, while the gross domestic product grew 150 percent and productivity grew 75 percent, the inflation-adjusted hourly wage of the median worker rose just 5.6 percent less than 0.2 percent a year. And since 2002, the bottom 80 percent of wage earners, including both male and female college graduates, have actually seen their wages stagnate or fall."
This is Bush being worse than Romney and is flat-out class war from the establishment and the rulers.
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/
Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)it all there fault! geeez
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truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)wordpix
(18,652 posts)truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)Not that I thought it was possible.
Journeyman
(15,001 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)CanonRay
(14,038 posts)You can't make this shit up. Republicans opening their pie-holes is priceless. The campaign commercials are making themselves.
cstanleytech
(26,082 posts)be willing to fight for the middle class.
Fight to stab it in the back that is, with as dull a knife as possible so it would take a long time to die.
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silvershadow
(10,336 posts)heaven05
(18,124 posts)and crawl back into that mink lined hole he came from. Hasn't had to work a day in his useless life, either with his brain or hands.
lordsummerisle
(4,649 posts)LiberalLovinLug
(14,154 posts)Already work longer hours, with less pay, and way fewer holidays than every other western democracy.
For instance, in Germany, any worker, in any job is guaranteed 6 weeks paid vacation off in his first year! All this redistribution of wealth from the bottom to the top in the last 40 years has resulted in the state we are in.
valerief
(53,235 posts)HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)Running just keeps you in place, if you want to get anywhere you've got to run twice as fast.
Still In Wisconsin
(4,450 posts)As if you have a clue what work is.
JeffHead
(1,186 posts)Beauregard
(376 posts)SusanCalvin
(6,592 posts)How about we get paid our fair share?
You think the *workers* are responsible for the "rut"? What world do you live in? Oh wait......
ohnoyoudidnt
(1,858 posts)attention when he speaks. That will change now with him in the presidential race.
SusanCalvin
(6,592 posts)Jack-o-Lantern
(965 posts)SusanCalvin
(6,592 posts)SunSeeker
(51,378 posts)It's our wages that are stagnant--or declining. The 1% took all the profit from the last three decades of massive worker productivity gains, without giving workers any raise to reflect their increased productivity. Now you want us to work even longer hours so you can rake in even more cash we will never see? FUCK YOU JEB!
They_Live
(3,222 posts)Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)It seems the more productive we are, the harder and longer they want us to work for less.
Only the CEOs benefit from our productivity.
No Vested Interest
(5,157 posts)is not a thinker of any depth.
For the last 6 -7 years, the American people have grown used to a President who has pondered the various problems besetting our nation and our culture.
This man, Jeb! Bush, does not come close to reflecting that ability.
Jeb! Bush is a shallow thinker.
JackInGreen
(2,975 posts)With an extra helping of stupid.
tavernier
(12,322 posts)Perhaps we can work 24/7 so George can paint his masterpieces surrounded by servants? Or so your wifey can zip over to Paris and bring back the latest fashions under the tax radar?
I'm seventy years old and I work three jobs so that I can pay all the insurances and medications for my family. I'm not bitching because God has given me the strength to do it, but I have a problem with you telling me that I should work more hours.
I think that you should work LESS hours... As in anything that has to do with running for president!!!
homegirl
(1,419 posts)while reading this I kept replaying the infamous 47% remarks made by Romney.
SusanCalvin
(6,592 posts)vkkv
(3,384 posts)slumcamper
(1,603 posts)SunSeeker
(51,378 posts)-Hillary Clinton
https://mobile.twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/618987543674142720
nightscanner59
(802 posts)Is that loyal republidiots will mindlessly clap at even the most inane of statements such as this, convinced that their hero will save them from the hoardes of welfare-queens Fox Noize has convinced them all are "the problem". Observations of the troglodyte-consumer class during my recent foray into a midwestern region of the country where the Tea Party sort I encountered in abundance revealed that they simply don't possess the mental capacity to put together that republican shore-up-the-rich policies do not result in economic gains for the masses. Fox's flashy graphics and relentless sly psychological bent have them convinced that the whole country is in ruins right now despite all evidence to to the contrary, even when they are benefiting far better, can even admit that they are better off now and turn right around to blame Clinton for economic disaster under fuckstick Shrub.
The second class of ignorance that bothers me magnamously is also a ploy of republicanism. Operatives have also successfully bred such complacency or contempt of all things political under the meme of "Your vote doesn't make a difference" and "All politicians the same". I've seen this message spelled out in the lowest common intellect denominator of television programming on an occasion I was sickened by some program I was subject to unwillingly in a social situation. The same show carried the message that "college education is not necessary for success" and had a total plotline of "political involvement just makes trouble for you". This was a program aimed at Latino audiences. I was just.. wow... wtf... even not really paying attention to the idiotic show, these themes were hammered into the consumers in mesmerized attendance.
The two headed hydra of republicans is wielded with such utter disregard and actual contempt of their own constituency it is sickening. At least many of the clowns running these days have become so utterly sold on their own poisonous rhetoric they no longer even attempt to hide their imperialist browbeating.
markpkessinger
(8,381 posts)GeorgeGist
(25,294 posts)hibbing
(10,076 posts)We all know what all know what "tax reform" means to these nutjobs, the same thing it has meant for decades, tax cuts for the 1%. And if you just work more hours, one day you too will be rich enough to benefit from my tax cuts! Ask him what a gallon of milk costs and see what happens.
Peace
Gloria
(17,663 posts)of having to work 2 or 3 part-time jobs just to make ends meet!
catrose
(5,050 posts)KinMd
(966 posts)"He can't help it, he was born with a silver foot in his mouth"
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)Also, is this a winning strategy for a candidate? Seems cuckoo.
romanic
(2,841 posts)Of the working man, quelle surprise. :/
Nite Owl
(11,303 posts)Really? In other words work longer hours, take up the work of your cohort who got fired all for the same pay. Think we've been ther and done that and it didn't work out well for us but it was great for the corporations.
Aren't they the ones who yell about family values? Work longer so you won't see them.
McCamy Taylor
(19,240 posts)ronnie624
(5,764 posts)What he means is, people need to work longer hours for less money, so the economy will be more profitable for corporations and rich people. When people like the Jeb Bush talk about economic growth, they're referring specifically to Wall Street's performance.
AZ Progressive
(3,411 posts)foot in mouth, Jeb, ROFLMAO.
get the red out
(13,459 posts)This silver spoon SOB really has some nerve. What "work" has he ever done? And no, totally fucking the state of Florida doesn't count. The people he puts down do more work in a week then he has done in his life.
Rethugs are sickening, but this idiot has now lost the right to criticize anything even Trump says.
wordpix
(18,652 posts)ignore environmental laws and put golf course ponds where flowing streams used to be.
dembotoz
(16,739 posts)merrily
(45,251 posts)It really does burn, doesn't it? Romney had his Romney moment in a private fundraiser, relatively late in the general campaign, but was still too dumb to collect recording devices.
This one has his Romney moment before even one clown gets voted out of the clown car--and in a public statement no less.
DCBob
(24,689 posts)I thought this was the "smart" Bush. ??
Third Doctor
(1,574 posts)has never done a hard days work in his life and has sat around and gotten pair millions for basically nothing. He was born rich and has not held office for years. Its this type of crap that baffles me. Why would a working class person vote for someone that says this? Most GOPers think this way too. Even those that this would effect.
ladjf
(17,320 posts)everything they advocate is contrary to the best interests of most Americans.
Gumboot
(531 posts)... Preferably breaking rocks in the prison yard. 10 hours per day, 7 days a week.
Weird how the robber barons think we're not working ourselves to death enough so that they can have more.
Waiting for our glorious corporate media to ask Jeb about all the scams and schemes he was working so hard at during the 1980s and 1990s. Narcotics trafficking, banking, shady property deals, the faulty NoLa flood pumps, etc etc.
Don't lecture America about work, Jeb. You ain't qualified to talk about work.
Punx
(446 posts)This jerk also wants to cut Social Security.
So productivity gains go to the top, but work harder, and don't expect any reward when you are old and tired.
That they are saying these things out loud should scare people. Honestly can't understand why anyone other than the top .1 % would vote for this guy, Walker, or Christie...well any of them.
tuhaybey
(76 posts)For decades in a row now, we've trusted that if we just work harder and harder and longer and longer, the employers would eventually give us some cut of our additional productivity and it hasn't happened. Over the past 35 years, despite mindboggling increases in hours and productivity, the income of the bottom 90% of us has actually fallen. They totally and completely screwed us- http://politicsthatwork.com/blog/inequality.php
And now they have the gall to demand even more from us? Screw you Bush. First, you make it right for what we've already done for you. Lets see the median wage go up 20% first. Then maybe- maybe- we'll talk about giving you more of our time and effort, but only under very strictly controlled circumstances where you can't screw us again.
eppur_se_muova
(36,227 posts)I know you do it, so there must be a way.
No, I wasn't born a Bush ....
Oh, I see.
Momgonepostal
(2,871 posts)I work for a place that sends you home when you max out your hours because they will not pay overtime. When we hit 28 hours for the week, we are done. Heaven forbid we work 30 and have to get health benefits! (For the record, I love my job, and am lucky enough that I do not need the full-time income.)
My husband has had a job where he supervised two people and was therefore exempt from OT.
How would working longer hours help workers like these in any way?
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)Liberal_Stalwart71
(20,450 posts)Gothmog
(144,005 posts)tblue37
(64,982 posts)longest hours, and get the most paltry benefits.
We also get the stingiest share of the value we produce, because the .01% take way more than their share. When companies and other businesses lay off workers, the remaining employees have to pick up the slack and work much more, but they are almost never paid more for all that extra work.
American workers should worker *fewer hours*, so more people can have jobs and no one has to work 60-80 hour weeks.
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rtracey
(2,062 posts)Hey Bush, I'm working 12 hours a day now, you rich arrogant bastard...F.U.
Kingofalldems
(38,361 posts)hamsterjill
(15,214 posts)Unions are the way poor people level the playing field!
JEB could use a good education IMHO.
Maedhros
(10,007 posts)Bush is ignoring the fact that worker productivity is very, very high relative to wages:
As wages stagnated in the 80's, productivity continued to increase. The difference between worker's productivity and worker's wages translates into profit for the capitalists.
Demanding more productivity from workers without increasing wages does nothing to help the worker, and only increases profits for corporations.
So, to summarize: Fuck you, Jeb.
americanrabbit
(27 posts)if for every hour you worked you earned more per hour than the previous hour.
Hour 1: minimum wage.
By hour 40 you'd be at $47.50 an hour.
Want to work another 40 hours that week? Up to almost $90.
Without that though, your base wage determines the finite amount you can possibly earn, which is still NOT ENOUGH.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Efilroft Sul
(3,573 posts)
the job that I was laid off from 14 months ago was one where it was not uncommon to work for weeks at a stretch for the better part of 17 hours a day, no weekends off sometimes, and once through our entire Christmas and New Year's vacations (which were eliminated on the fly). That's the life of a "professional."
Also, I got no extra money for that superlative ass-busting that Jebbie Boy wants from all American workers.
And before anyone asks, yes, I've applied to about 300 other jobs, have gone four to six rounds deep in interviews at some places, and still haven't landed on my feet. The will to work is here, but being taken advantage of again is a non-starter.
wordpix
(18,652 posts)chemo. All I can get is odd jobs here and there but I'm in a small town and my skills aren't in high demand.
I want to know what Jebbie can do to help me get work, since he thinks I should be working harder.
Efilroft Sul
(3,573 posts)Burning through resumes like Snoop through a roomful of blunts are talent acquisition types. These screeners know the salaries of everyone but don't know the value of anybody and they are a total menace to job seekers everywhere, if only for the fact that they have strung out the interview process to such ridiculous lengths that every wannabe worker-bee has to jump through hoops like someone going for the CEO's slot. Unemployment compensation should be extended by at least three months because of how stretched out the hiring process has become.
If the HR department is stacked with predatory MBAs, these business magicians are capable of pulling only two rabbits out of their hats: 1) Reduce the costs of benefits by any means necessary, and 2) Reduce head count all the time by any means necessary. A third trick is performed by the exceptionally stupid and ruthless during market downturns: Cut the marketing budget, because that's what our competitors are doing. HR is the tail that wags the dog and flings stupid shit.
Dopers_Greed
(2,640 posts)This is going to version of Romney's 47% comment
abakan
(1,815 posts)If it jumped up and bit him in his privileged lily white ass.
Flatulo
(5,005 posts)... that he only measures success by metrics that affect people at the very top of the food chain. And that's what's so bizarre the people at the top of the food chain have done very well indeed over the last 30 years.
And while the staggering improvements in American productivity have not been evenly distributed throughout the workforce (i.e.; it still takes X number of chambermaids to clean a motel), productivity gains in manufacturing, engineering and product development, and food production have led the world. And to a large degree precisely because Americans are already working themselves to death.
His comment makes absolutely no sense whatsoever, and reveals a shocking degree of ignorance. I hope this gets spread far and wide.
Helen Borg
(3,963 posts)Quality time with family? You know, family values and all?
Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)By the way, Jeb, I was unaware that American productivity had dropped from new highs to new lows. Did I miss something or did you just make that up?
ion_theory
(235 posts)after a month of lurking on DU. This statement is so dangerous and I hope people realize it. Overhead my boss (Dr. who owns his own practice of 45 employees) was talking about this and pretty much agreed with JOHN Bush word for word. God help us millennials if these neocons keep winning.
Hissyspit
(45,788 posts)Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)Since salaried people would gain not one cent from working more hours, Fuck YOU, John Ellis, you self loathing piece of shit. Americans have raised their productivity though your brother's cluster fuck of an administration, despite his two recessions. Where the fuck is this "trickle down" you criminals keep talking about?
olddad56
(5,732 posts)Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)"Tote that barge! Lift that bale!"
Tikki
(14,539 posts)Tikki
Daniel537
(1,560 posts)This callous and absurd comment has the ability to rile up the average worker on either side of the political spectrum. As countless economists have already pointed out, Americans work their asses off while receiving the fewest benefits and smallest wages of any industrialized nation. If this isn't enough for people to steer away from the GOP, nothing will. Dems should remind people about this every chance they get.
I_Like_Hammers
(30 posts)Hooo boy... This is so tiresome. Basically EVERYONE I know already works themselves literally to near-death as it is, for extremely paltry amounts of money, and they'll be the FIRST to proudly announce their agreement with Jeb. You think "liberal" is a dirty word in middle Georgia? Try saying "rest," or "retirement!" And these people VOTE for folks like this!