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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf Jeb "meant" to say "full time jobs" why didn't he say it?
Apologist Nicolle Wallace on Morning Joe told us what Jeb "meant" when he said Americans needed to work longer hours.
Words have meaning, Nicolle. And while we're at it, Jeb also "could" have said "well paying jobs" but he didn't. And he could have said at least that people who work full time (one way or another) should not have to depend on food stamps. And he "could" have said that women should get equal pay for equal work, but he didn't. Hey, Nicolle, have you ever compared what they pay you with what they pay the guys on that show?
The guys were hardly any better and a helluva lot lazier. Mike Barnicle needs to go home to Boston. Willy is clueless. Even Sam Stein was listless and dull witted.
And Jeb could have been asked about saying if they worked longer hours they would be "more productive." HUH? American workers are already some of the most productive workers in any modern industrialized society. The problem is that they don't get paid accordingly.
And of course he had to drag in the old canard about the ACA forcing employers to give workers fewer hours to avoid providing them health care. And oh, those workers got health care all right...in Emergency Rooms which is far less cost effective than offering everybody primary health care in the first place.
What a lousy bunch of losers on that show today.
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)I don't think it's going to work.
edhopper
(33,580 posts)for their families>"
Seems to me paying a living wage for the work they do would accomplish the same thing.
But that would effect the wealth of his pals.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)drop by later today for you know what...
edhopper
(33,580 posts)Octafish
(55,745 posts)Who knows how much John Sphincter and the National Association of Manufacturers have raised for the little plutocrat.
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,837 posts)restorefreedom
(12,655 posts)he knew damn well what he was saying. it was a dog whistle to the 1%. they want people working longer and harder for less while the obscenely rich continue to suck up the profits of the hardworking.
they want economic bondage, a return to slavery. but they will call it "growth."
SusanCalvin
(6,592 posts)(from their point of view), is that the hardworking peons have no time to pay attention to politics.
restorefreedom
(12,655 posts)so much the better to keep the koch candidates in power
One of the 99
(2,280 posts)I expect Wallace to spin for Bush but Willie Geist and Sam Stein were just as bad. Even the playing of the "full quote" was dishonest because they included Bush's walk back after Clinton called him out for his original statement. Just disgraceful on their part.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)Solly Mack
(90,767 posts)Nicolle Wallace - job description: translating stupid into less stupid. (and failing)
That sounds about right.
Hydra
(14,459 posts)He threw the plan out there with no sugar coating. I think his handlers were furious about him not waiting until he was in office to start doing that.
CanonRay
(14,101 posts)he has no clue how ordinary people live...he's never been one.
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)Watching CNN, and they were bashing Dems for jumping to conclusions about what poor, misunderstood Jebby meant. Anyone else get the impression that MSM is working overtime to elect a Republican president?
SusanCalvin
(6,592 posts)it's a simple fact, in the sense that they're working to keep their corporate masters in power.
restorefreedom
(12,655 posts)why, i can't even imagine such a thing. i am horrified at the mere suggestion of it.
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)In 2008 I thought they were pretty pro Obama.
restorefreedom
(12,655 posts)i mean, fox and cnn are all gop. and msnbc, which had a good liberal run for a while, is now having guests who are clearly slanted towards gop candidates.
the less i watch, the better i feel.
malaise
(269,004 posts)He says things and then tries to undo the damage - fugg 'em.
Baitball Blogger
(46,715 posts)have to clarify what he really means once Jeb becomes President.
RadiationTherapy
(5,818 posts)They just can't relate and they are so transparent when they do.