not the part-time ones that allow them to sidestep the ACA.

SMH.

I used to think he was the dangerous Bush. The one with brains.

He's working overtime to disprove that idea.

even his clarification was about full time workers getting "up to" 40 hours/ week.

Honestly, it's pretty obvious that he doesn't know how much the average full time American worker is working per week. I suspect he read the BLS number sometime in the last and never sought clarification. I get the impression he really thinks Americans work @ 30 hours /week...

The gaffe is pure gold regardless.

It's insane.

An entitled dynastic candidate and their PR clean-up team. Entertaining, unless they end up wielding power.

He should had been aware that the words coming out of his mouth needed clarification. Otherwise, he would be unable to negotiate or manage.

The Tenements would be the mansions, and vice versa. We do not need someone born with a silver spoon to tell people the value of hard work.

he should have (and could have) said exactly that. An awful lot of people are stuck with part time jobs (that offer no benefits) and would love to be able to work full time, but it's up to employers to offer those jobs. But they won't because it's cheaper for them to employ part-time workers for whom they don't offer insurance, vacations or sick leave. So Jeb! is blowing it out his ass when he says “people need to work longer hours” means people need full-time jobs. What he really meant is that - for the benefit of the bosses - people should have two or three shitty part-time jobs so they can work longer hours and still have no benefits or job security.

I'd say he also means that people who already work long hours should work more. Increased productivity per worker means hiring fewer workers who require medical and other non-salary compensation. Ideally, there would be no overtime as well. Best of all would be salaried workers who are compensated for 40 hours and expected to work 60 or more.

But hey, Goldman Sachs just cut their maximum allowed work day to 16 hours. Things are looking up!

-- Mal

People with part time jobs often need two or more in order to pay the rent on unsafe housing with enough left over for bad food that leaves their bodies hungry. People are working longer hours for less and less money and that is the problem, Jebbiepoo, there is too little money circulating at the bottom to allow a real recovery.

No rich Republican putz will ever understand the demand side.

people know damned well what they'll get

(hint: Bush1, Bush2, Bush3?)

You're gonna have to step it up a notch if you wanna fool us.

10+ hours a day. And no, we don't get paid for working overtime. We get "credit hours".

He's back peddling because there has been some anger over his first set of comments.

Translation:

"Well, when I said I wanted to screw the American worker, I didn't realize that the American worker wasn't going to let me do that without a little push back, so now I'll say I didn't really mean what I said."

Typical Bush lies. If it's a Bush and it's mouth is moving - it's telling a lie!