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In reply to the discussion: Jeb Bush: People Need to Work Longer Hours [View all]SusanCalvin
(6,592 posts)157. Yeah, you're right.
Plus people will have forgotten it by the primaries, much less the general.
At least it made NPR this pm.
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Would not know how to work one hour in his life, has no clue what the word means
randys1
Jul 2015
#1
Add this to his comments awhile back that we should increase the age limit on SS!
Dustlawyer
Jul 2015
#125
That, from some silver-spooned jackass that has never had a real job in his life
corkhead
Jul 2015
#2
No, actually, he did. What amazed him was a new scanner in a store that could scan all the groceries...
Moonwalk
Jul 2015
#83
Thank you for clarifying that. I don't know where I heard that it read all the items in the cart....
Moonwalk
Jul 2015
#136
Exactly. But will hard-worked Rep middle class see this as about them and not just a dog whistle?
Hortensis
Jul 2015
#106
"All any other candidate has to do is to point out..." <No. "I saved a thousand slaves. I could have
jtuck004
Jul 2015
#138
And to think his Mommy and Daddy and Brothers all think the same of the American Worker.
Wellstone ruled
Jul 2015
#91
Well there goes to youth and young family vote. Does he have any idea how long people are
jwirr
Jul 2015
#14
Consider how many of us senior citizens are working--clown doesn't have a base to stand on
Demeter
Jul 2015
#104
Fucker. "You little people need to be more productive! We here at the top aren't satisfied with
TwilightGardener
Jul 2015
#18
How 'bout more people have jobs, work fewer hours, and have quality time with their families?
Martin Eden
Jul 2015
#22
Whatta maroon...Capital, aka ownership, has been absorbing all of our productivity gains for decades
BeyondGeography
Jul 2015
#29
We don't have a productivity problem. We need more surplus value! Fuck these leeches.
Ed Suspicious
Jul 2015
#30
Devil's Advocate: maybe he meant that people working 30 hours with no benefits need 40 + benies
Shrike47
Jul 2015
#34
Dear Jeb, please supply the number of house per week your entire family works
Coventina
Jul 2015
#36
" Bush would not fight for the middle class as president." Oh I doubt that part, I am sure he would
cstanleytech
Jul 2015
#46
One of the most impolitic statements I've ever heard a politician make n/t
lordsummerisle
Jul 2015
#51
Through the looking glass...Jeb invokes the Red Queen solution to income inequality...
HereSince1628
Jul 2015
#54
Just one more stinking bag of shit that ugly old battleax Babs crapped out.
Jack-o-Lantern
Jul 2015
#64
This latest statement of Jeb! Bush indicates that he, like his brother and his father,
No Vested Interest
Jul 2015
#68
Sure it would be great to work longer hours....if it was for 1 full-time job instead
Gloria
Jul 2015
#85
Americans already work longer hours and are more productive than European workers.
McCamy Taylor
Jul 2015
#97
Realistically, an economy can't grow any faster than the demand for goods and services.
ronnie624
Jul 2015
#99
yes he worked for FL developers and real estate tycoons making it easy for them to
wordpix
Jul 2015
#155
American workers are the most productive in the first world, get the least time off, work the
tblue37
Jul 2015
#130
We should also FORCE people to work. The lazy bums! Let's build labor camps!
Spitfire of ATJ
Jul 2015
#139
good point - in my 60's, I cannot get full time job following recovery from cancer surgery +
wordpix
Jul 2015
#156
yeah, and with lower pay and decreased benefits. That would improve his personal economy.
olddad56
Jul 2015
#166