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unless you are a Bush

We all should work longer hours because we have all have maids, cooks, drivers, and tutors for our kids, just like the Bush family, right? They always said Jeb was the "smart one." Yeah; not so sure about that!

tens of millions of dollars in family money accumulated over generations and connections to the highest level people in both government and private industry.

(Always remember when W relaxed laws in Texas regarding levels of arsenic in the water, while spending tens of thousands to get some state of the art water filtration system installed on his ranch in Crawford. I mean, everybody else can do that, too, right?)

... is that worker productivity is already off the charts in this country, and yet he wants to squeeze even more blood out of the turnip. (We'll ignore, for the nonce, the fact that he has probably never really worked in his life)

There is a desire to push the test-to-destruction of the human as far as possible. Well, naturally, that's what test-to-destruction means.

-- Mal

I don't know about anybody else, but i ~can't~ be any more productive than i am...

55+ hrs/week at work
+
12+ hrs/week commuting to the job [public trans]
+
25+ hrs/week for household chores (cooking, cleaning, etc...)
=
When the fuck do i have ~TIME~ to 'work more' or 'be more productive'?!?!?

*gets the pitchfork out of the shed*

We all take our vacations (called holidays up here.) And most companies start their employees with 3 weeks. I left my last job before retiring after 18 years with 6 weeks vacation. We had full benefits, sick days , bonuses, paid overtime at time and half and I went on a few company paid trips.

All my friends who worked would think it crazy not to take their vacation days.


Not to mention 10 or 11 statuary paid holidays.

I am finally accruing 3 weeks a year. At 10 I will get four. Most American companies are not so "generous"

Living all my life in Ca and FL, I can't hang with the cold. Otherwise I'd be seeing what it took to move there and live in a more sane country.

Dress properly according to the weather. Many people up here Love winter. I don't but I have alternative things I do. Read, internet, social clubs, paint, movies, tv . There can be a peacefulness in winter. The quiet of the snow.

I wear long underwear too. LOL.

And I vacation in the winters going south. Mexico, Florida, cruises and lately Cuba. which is the best. I would rather have a week of Cuba than a month in Florida. I know this because 2015 I did Florida for a month.... I love Beall's to shop but this past visit just was not as good as others.

That's why we can't have nice things, like single payer health care.

We can have 800 military bases around the world. I think many of these bases have their own golf courses.

We get it BubbaShrub, you______!

JEB! = JUST ELECT BERNIE!

'Say Columba, where is that fairway butler? Oh, boy? Where are you boy?'

- Shrug -

'Well, he's fired. Plenty more peons where he came from. As President, I will make those people work longer hours. Or else.'

Jebby and Columba laugh... end of scene.

First, here's an article from 2013, in the NYT, highlighting what economists and unions have been saying for years. US productivity isn't the problem. The wage gains of productivity are not 'trickling down' to the people that actually do the work.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/13/sunday-review/americas-productivity-climbs-but-wages-stagnate.html?_r=0

And here, some graphs courtesy of venerable Momma Jones.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/06/speedup-americans-working-harder-charts

Willful ignorance or a closeted life, or blame it on the genes.

Not only has average US economic growth over the past 50 years has been less that that per year, but at this point it would be environmentally unsustainable. It would devastate the planet. So Jeb shouldn't get a pass on the silly first part of his statement just because of the abysmally stupid second part.

Jeb - "Yes, you little people need to work more hours for me and my cohorts with no increased pay so we can get even more filthy rich. Bow down before your masters!"

Sorry, Jebby, can't help you. Get a job other than begging suckers for political charitable donations and you'll know what it means to earn a living. When you have a job, buy a clue.

Ann Richards was right about his brother and she's right about Jeb: "he was born with a silver foot in his mouth."

Priceless. Especially teaming it with this quotation.

His spin doctors can try to massage his message but I see it as a true "gaffe".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_gaffe#Kinsley_gaffe

A Kinsley gaffe occurs when a political gaffe reveals some truth that a politician did not intend to admit.[7][8] The term comes from journalist Michael Kinsley, who said, "A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth – some obvious truth he isn't supposed to say."

the Dittoheads out there think Americans - especially brown and black skinned ones - are a bunch of lazy-asses who just need to work harder to get ahead.

What. The. Fuck. Why do people vote for these guys? Anyone who is not rich who votes for Jeb is voting against their own economic interests and overall well-being. Satire warning.

It just boggles my mind.

Jeb Says Americans Must Work More, God Against Retirement

I see now that for Bush quotes we need to get familiar with the header "NTO", and use it, so we know they are real. His quotes are like self parody.

"NTO" = Not The Onion

http://www.theonion.com/section/politics/

I think The Onion crew would be patting each other on the back if they'd made up those quotes.

Edit: lol, joke's on me, the article was onionesque. lol, and very well done!

what a slacker. He'll get to the poor and sick later. Great president he'll make, no doubt

I'm sure most of you have seen this, but now J Bush is back tracking, saying he was misquoted. He really meant the country has too many part time jobs, and not enough full time jobs.

Go straight to hell! You're already lying, and the circus has hardly begun.

"Wwhen he is your president, he will make you work harder. Vote Jeb."

:ROFL:

A socialist once got 3% of the national vote - while he was in prison.

The "You don't work hard enough" campaign of the loser mentioned in the OP could actually do worse than that.

Arbeit Macht Frei

just saying.....

Does he play in best-ball tournaments with Dumbya?

or is it 2-1/2?

Hillary certainly does not agree with Jeb. Hillary ripped Jeb for his "more hours" statement yesterday and posted a graph everyone should see:

to their vision. But as usual, everyone is too busy falling for the divide and conquer routine to notice.

The rules are the same, regardless of party affiliation:
Put your life on hold (work your butt off) until you retire (or die) first. Save, spend, save, spend, save, spend. Hope your 401k is still intact when that day finally comes.

Who gives a flying f*ck what politicians say. Is it your life or theirs?

Dems gave us Social Security, SSI, Medicare and the Civil Rights Act. It is the GOP that is trying to destroy these laws and turn us into slaves.

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I already work 80 or more hours per week in the school year. So I am lazy because I have the summer off. Jeb bush is an absolute pig. Actually pigs are quite nice in comparison.

cuts are delivered...aka death by a thousand cuts...are third wayers listening to? I hope so. This shit has to end.

as his brother would laughingly put it

(and years later, charge $120,000 to go speak to severely injured soldiers from his needless war)

Before the 9/11 attacks, George W was on track to break all vacation records. No matter what Jeb says or does, the spectre of his brother is peeking over his shoulder.

And the only way he can do that is pack up the whole family and move to a deserted island.

....or the Presidency. He is willfully walking into the Reid-Angle trap, which is that you allow yourself to say really stupid things to your Right Wing Nut base that are bound to be replayed in the general election.

In the 2012 general election disabled Nevada veterans heard Sharon Angle say "The VA needs to be privatized" which is republi-speak for "get rid of" and she lost in a landslide.

Keep up the good work Jeb, blowing the GOP nomination may be the smartest thing you've done in your life...