" People need to Work LONGER Hours " : Jeb Bush !

[NewHampshire Black Bears]

Jeb paid a visit to the Manchester NH. Union Leader today, the MOST Conservative newspaper in America, ( A Mere 1 1/2 miles from my front door) and spouted to the Editor Joe McQuaid that .. " People need to work LONGER Hours " !
 
This coming from a silver spoon-fed Millionaire !  This just might become ' JEBS '....... Mitt Romneyesque... " I Don't Care about THOSE 46% of People " !
 
The REPUBLICAN PARTY
 
The GIFT.....That ALWAYS  Keeps On ... G I V I N G  !
 
PS,
 
A person who is FAST becoming one of the MOST Beloved person's in the World....( Pope FRANCIS ) ( And I personally am not a Catholic),  Is heading to Philadelphia in September, And this Wonderful Human Being has a Message for the GOP about the Environment !
 
Stay Tuned !
 
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

 

[Kev3188]

Sure I'll work longer hours...

...but you're gonna pay me overtime to do it...

 

[NewHampshire Black Bears]

Sure I'll work longer hours...

...but you're gonna pay me overtime to do it...

 
Kev,.............I agree with you my Good Friend,.........But if Scott Walker gets his way, that could change (also) !

 

[700UW]

Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist, was quick to jump on comments made earlier this week by Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush, who said Americans should work longer hours.
 
“The sad truth is that, because the middle class has declined over the last 40 years, while almost all new income and wealth has gone to the people on top, Americans already work the longest hours of any people in the Western industrialized world,” U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders said Thursday in a shot at Bush.
 

“What we need now is an economy that provides decent wages and income for the middle class, not demands that people work even longer hours than they current do,” he added.
 
Sanders says America’s problem is not work ethic but income inequality.
 
“Gov. Bush does not seem to understand what is happening in our economy today,” Sanders said. ‪#‎FeelTheBern‬ ‪#‎Bernie2016‬

 

[eolesen]

As usual, lots of kerfuffle without a shred of context:

In a statement, a Bush aide clarified that he was referring to the underemployed and part-time workers: “Under President Obama, we have the lowest workforce participation rate since 1977, and too many Americans are falling behind. Only Washington Democrats could be out-of-touch enough to criticize giving more Americans the ability to work, earn a paycheck, and make ends meet.”

There's no question that too many people are stuck doing parttime work who want fulltime employment.

Seems to me that Sanders and Hillary are more out of touch on the issue if they're entirely satisfied with under-employment.

 

[Kev3188]

There's no question that too many people are stuck doing parttime work who want fulltime employment.

Agreed, but anytime someone dares bring up a jobs program (or any iteration thereof), the RWNJ's spontaneously combust.

Gainful employment at a decent wage is a win-win all around for this country and is something we should all agree on...

 

[Ms Tree]

I have always thought that if we would start rebuilding the infrustructure in this country it would supply tens of thousands of jobs with the money getting pumped back into the economy. Seems like a win win. We have to invest.money to make miney.

 

[Kev3188]

Infrastructure was exactly what I had in mind when I wrote that. Tens of thousands of jobs, and years worth of work all over the nation...

 

[NewHampshire Black Bears]

As usual, lots of kerfuffle without a shred of context:


There's no question that too many people are stuck doing parttime work who want fulltime employment.

Seems to me that Sanders and Hillary are more out of touch on the issue if they're entirely satisfied with under-employment.

 
Eric m'boy..........................WHY are sooooooo many people working Part Time  ???   What Happened to ALL the full time jobs that were around BEFORE the    " Too Big to Fail " BANKS got Bailed Out by HANK....dirty DICK and EL-CHIMPO  ??????

 

[eolesen]

Infrastructure was exactly what I had in mind when I wrote that. Tens of thousands of jobs, and years worth of work all over the nation...

That was the driver behind the ARRA in 2009, and it was pretty much a failure in my opinion. All it did was fund projects that were already in the pipeline, and keep construction workers who were employed already employed a little longer.

The tax impact came out to somewhere around $180,000 for every job saved or created. That's a pretty low ROI. If you want to create infrastructure jobs, go for it, but it will always be a temporary fix, since those projects eventually get completed.


Arguably, the number of jobs saved/created by ARRA was destroyed several times over by mandating employer paid healthcare.

Redefining the threshold for what defined fulltime and parttime healthcare benefits has impacted working mothers and those without college degrees the hardest. My wife's work schedule was cut from 35 hours a week to 28 hours a week, and she didn't *need* healthcare as long as it was being provided as part of my employment.

Nationwide, that same reduction to 28-29 hours per week happened. We also saw companies reducing the overall number of fulltime employees, some going with contractors instead of regular employees.

If you want to see jobs created on a permanent basis, eliminating the employer mandate and resetting the threshold to 35 or 40 hours would go a long, long way.

With the availability of exchanges and subsidies being more or less guaranteed, there's no need to cripple employment to provide healthcare if that's the goal. By mandating it for people who didn't need it (e.g. my wife), Government "fixed" one problem and created a much bigger one in the process.

 

[700UW]

 

 

[delldude]

I have always thought that if we would start rebuilding the infrustructure in this country it would supply tens of thousands of jobs with the money getting pumped back into the economy. Seems like a win win. We have to invest.money to make miney.

 
How about getting all the peckerheads scamming the handouts back on the tax rolls?

 

[delldude]

 

 
So oBama leads the league in in housd day at a time vacations....LOL
 
You got to get off this Bush Bullshit......he been gone some time and it really doesn't matter unless you can't offer anything of substance.
 

 
Even a year later, our fact-check on which president took more vacation -- George W. Bush or Barack Obama -- remains one of our most popular fact-checks with readers. Given the Obama’s family’s summer vacation in Martha’s Vineyard, Mass., we thought it was time to look at the numbers again.
 
The question is drawing special attention this year because the Obamas’ time away came during a period that included unrest in Ferguson, Mo., the launch of U.S. airstrikes against the Islamic extremist group ISIS, the beheading of American journalist James Foley by ISIS, and the spread of the Ebola virus in West Africa.
 
By Knoller’s count, Obama played 186 rounds of golf during his presidency through Aug. 12, according to Yahoo! News. That number that has gone up a bit since then due to additional rounds on Martha’s Vineyard.
Bush played many fewer rounds as president -- 24, mainly because he stopped in 2003, since it sent the wrong message when troops were fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq.

 
Class act the oBama.
 
You should reference who got more done......

 

[700UW]

Jeb

 

[KCFlyer]

As usual, lots of kerfuffle without a shred of context:


There's no question that too many people are stuck doing parttime work who want fulltime employment.

Seems to me that Sanders and Hillary are more out of touch on the issue if they're entirely satisfied with under-employment.

 
Usually they call this "backpeddling".