Jeb Bush to make Americans work more

Democrats, including Clinton, jumped on Bush’s remarks as a sign that he’s out of touch with Americans already working long hours. “That’s the only way we are going to get out of this rut that we’re in”, Bush had said.

“I’ll campaign in the Latino communities all across this country – and I might do it in Spanish and in English”, Bush told a crowd of more than 150 at a VFW.

HUDSON, N.H. (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush says the federal government should deny aid to cities that harbor immigrants who are in the country illegally.

Jeb Bush on Wednesday proposed a blunt solution for economic troubles: “People should work longer hours”, drawing negative reactions from critics who suggested the last thing Americans need is to work more.

The Democratic National Committee said that the comment was proof that Jeb Bush “would not fight for the middle class”, while making the oft-repeated charge that top Republicans do not understand the lives of regular people.

Bush responded directly on Thursday morning. “We have seen them create welfare programs and tax rules that punish people with lost benefits and higher taxes for moving up those first few rungs of the economic ladder”.

Americans logged 1,788 hours of work in 2013, one of the highest totals among industrialized nations, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

‘It is that the Washington cartel of career politicians, special interests and lobbyists have rigged the game against them.’.

Ex- Florida Governor Jeb Bush speaks to reporters after an event at a Pizza Ranch restaurant on March 7, 2015 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. An hour of work isn’t worth what it used to be worth, and that’s why Americans are hurting. Had he said it a year from now, we’d all be in circle-the-wagons mode, outraged that Clinton could be so dishonest as to twist what was obviously a knock on part-time employment. But over the same period that bosses started getting a full quarter more work out of their employees, the median wage grew exactly zero percent.

The Bureau of Labor reports 6.5 million people in the USA work part-time because they can’t find full-time jobs and presumably would work more if they could. “Their incomes need to grow”. That was, of course, one of the most racist of Reagan’s litany of racist policies, and a belief that ultimately led to increased poverty and homelessness across America from which we’re still trying to recover.

A 2014 Gallup poll states the American “40-hour work week” actually is closer to 47 hours.