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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJeb Bush: Americans “need to work longer hours”
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
(16,286 posts)Nobody he knows has.
jesus, talk about a need for a revolution
City Lights
(25,171 posts)TexasBushwhacker
(20,222 posts)That would increase productivity too. What a doofus.
tymorial
(3,433 posts)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
(584 posts)appalachiablue
(41,182 posts)JEB! = Just Elect Bernie!
Initech
(100,108 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Brickbat
(19,339 posts)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
(26,505 posts)assclown.
calikid
(584 posts)I love it Mr. Corngood
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,505 posts)whatchamacallit
(15,558 posts)Yeah, fuck you Jeb.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)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
(21,925 posts)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
(41,182 posts)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
(41,182 posts)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
(59,414 posts)olddots
(10,237 posts)( hey its a stretch )
Octafish
(55,745 posts)Evil as the day is long, too.
hay rick
(7,648 posts)I didn't think so.
realFedUp
(25,053 posts)Soulless. Republicans have no morals, no soul, no truth.
sadoldgirl
(3,431 posts)We will all work as hard as your famous brother did,
when he was in office. That will increase productivity, eh?
Solly Mack
(90,792 posts)global1
(25,285 posts)lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)HeiressofBickworth
(2,682 posts)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
(3,263 posts)appalachiablue
(41,182 posts)bklyncowgirl
(7,960 posts)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
(4,805 posts)tammywammy
(26,582 posts)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
(33,224 posts)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
(82,849 posts)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
(41,182 posts)PowerToThePeople
(9,610 posts)What have you ever fucking done to create ANY value in this nation?
Tatiana La Belle
(152 posts)How out of touch can you get?
Monk06
(7,675 posts)SteveG
(3,109 posts)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
(3,427 posts)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
(36,305 posts)("Fewer hours" per year includes longer vacations, family/maternity leave. etc.)
Orsino
(37,428 posts)...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
(60 posts)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.