Jeb Bush Channels Mitt Romney: Liberals Want To Sabotage The Economy To Foster Culture Of Dependency

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Jeb Bush Channels Mitt Romney: Liberals Want To Sabotage The Economy To Foster Culture Of Dependency

by Alan Pyke at Think Progress

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2015/09/28/3706318/jeb-bush-economic-sabotage/

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Fresh off his promise to stop giving black voters “free stuff” in the form of government programs, GOP presidential candidate Jeb Bush accused Democrats of sabotaging the American economy for political gain in a Monday television interview.

“I think the left wants slow growth because that means people are more dependent upon government,” Bush told Fox Business’ Maria Bartiromo. “I reject that. I believe that people want to rise up, they want the tools to achieve earned success, and how we tax and regulate really matters.”

Bush’s allegation is the latest in a series of comments about public assistance programs that illustrate the candidate’s fealty to the economic ideas of men like former presidential candidate Mitt Romney, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), and right-wing talk show host Glenn Beck. In a February speech in Detroit, Bush said supporters of safety net programs have instead “built a spider web that traps people in perpetual dependence,” a twist on Ryan’s famous claim that the safety net had become a hammock. It’s not a new attitude. With federal debates over welfare reform heating up in 1994, Bush suggested that it was time for women on welfare to “find a husband” and stop relying on taxpayers to get by.

Monday’s accusation came after Bartiromo asked about Bush’s promise to usher in 4 percent annual economic growth if elected. Just four administrations have hit that mark in the modern era, and economists have derided Bush’s pledge as a sort of modern snake-oil promise, both too vague to be analyzed and too simplistic to deliver the sustained high growth Bush wants rather than one unstable burst followed by a return to historical averages.




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1. Fact is the economy for the rich is the world economy because people can invest abroad at get their

income from that. The economy for the poor is the domestic economy. They are not the same economy. And the right wants to slice the middle class up to those who can afford to invest and those who can't.

[Shandris]

2. He's right...sort of. It's not 'The Left', it's "The wealthy on the left and right"...

...or just 'the wealthy'. It's not a left-right paradigm, it's a top-bottom one.

People, any person who thinks that a 5,000 year old monetary system is the one requirement for the continuation of the modern world is NOT your friend or ally, no matter how nice the words are that they say. So yes, the wealthy - and that includes many of our elected officials - absolutely do want to create a culture of dependency. You'd have to be blind to miss it. The assumptions of dependency in our system are so deep that it's almost impossible to separate your thoughts from them, but that's by design and intent - the intent to let this small group of people own EVERYTHING.

Why anyone would think that the nation's wealthiest and most ambitious people all gather together to figure out ways to 'help' the 'common person' (while simultaneously knowing next to nothing about them!) in this day and age is beyond me. Businessmen always play both sides.

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3. This must be why the Democrats are fighting ...

... to keep the minimum wage low, because low wages keep poor working people dependent - oops, that would be the Republicans.

Just how stupid does he think his audience is?