What did Jeb! Bush! mean by saying Americans need to work harder? The GOP love productivity but only

[applegrove]

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when that increase in productivity results in more money for the corporation. Say what you really mean Bush. You don't want people to profit from their own talents themselves.... you want the rich to profit off them 'working harder' for someone else. Otherwise you'd be for unions. There is no way American productivity can compete with china what with people working long hours for little pay and also where people are not educated to their maximum abilities because they started out in a poorer country. So they get compensated poorly for their value. I know that paying someone less than they are worth or getting them to work longer hours are the old fashioned way of growing an upper class. But get over it.

[Kalidurga]

1. I for one am glad he said this

We all know this is what Republican leaders are thinking. That people who are poor are lazy and if they would only work 60 hours a week at very physical jobs like the 60 hours a week that many professionals in more sedentary (still hard work don't get me wrong) do, then they would prosper as well. Never mind that working on a dock or being a janitor is much harder on your body and the pay is a fraction of what most professional white collar jobs pay.

[Populist_Prole]

7. I kinda' feel the same way

I'd like to think that such a blunt attack on the working class would set up some much needed cognitive dissonance among the conservatives in that group that voted more on social issues than economic ones. Now they can see it's their necks on the chopping block. Fat lot of good "god & guns" will do then.

[libdem4life]

2. This is a Class Trap...Bush said what he meant...work harder for The Man. Berie called

him on it. EOS

[Marie Marie]

3. Can anyone tell me what Jebbie

has been doing since he has been out of elected office? Has this man done an honest days work since then - or ever? I know, I know, I could probably google him to find out but honestly, he is just not worth my time or effort.

[LuvNewcastle]

4. He wouldn't last a day at my job,

and it's just part-time. Never worked a day in his life, probably, and telling the rest of us to kill ourselves. That's a sick fucking family. All of them think just like that.

[Sherman A1]

5. I believe

this has the potential to be his "47%" remark, however it is still very, very early in the campaign.

[Nay]

6. Indeed it does have the potential, and I still swear this asshole really doesn't want to

be president. He's saying all the wrong things right off the bat!

[Populist_Prole]

8. Now I wonder if

He really does, but he's overcompensating because he's inveterately "tone deaf".

He's slugging it out with Trump; attacking another conservative one-percenter. His "work harder" meme was supposed to be more or less a dog whistle to the plutocrats; as if to say: "Yeah, I'm bashing Trump, but don't worry, I'm still your man". You got me."