Jeb Bush takes heat for ‘people need to work longer hours’ comment

“My aspirations for the country, and I believe we can achieve it, is for 4 percent growth as far as the eye can see”, Bush said.

“Workforce participation has to rise from its all-time modern lows,” Bush said.

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He added that he would push to deploy “forward-leaning border control agents” closer to the actual border; use new technologies, including drones, to monitor border traffic;

and fix the E-Verify system and stop providing law enforcement funding to “sanctuary cities” that refuse to work with federal agencies to deport illegal immigrants”.

The relationship between American workers’ industriousness and their economic security has eroded so severely in recent decades that the two concepts aren’t even on speaking terms these days.

Bush’s campaign had focused much of its early strategy on raising money, and his aides argue that his lackluster polling in the early stages of the race reflects that focus on fundraisers.

Statistics from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development say Americans work more than anyone in the industrialized world. The group has already spent about $5 million, but claims to have more than $98 million in the bank, which it is waiting to unleash to boost Bush’s candidacy and demolish his rivals. It also was a dig at Obamacare, which had previously defined the work week for a full-time employee at 30 hours, causing many employers to cap work weeks at 29 hours. The Republican presidential candidate admits that “the idea that we’re going to round up 11 million people and send them back – it’s not real”. The super-PAC reports that at least 9,400 of them gave less than $25,000.

The problem with Jeb Bush’s brilliant plan for you to work harder is that it won’t actually grow your income.

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 6.65 million Americans are working non-agricultural part-time jobs because they can’t find full-time employment. Although, that doesn’t exactly make Jeb’s comment sound any better; after all, he’s still telling those workers to get off their asses and start working more.

Although the number of these workers has fallen from a post-recession high of 2.83 million in 2011, the current level is still twice as high compared to the end of 2007, just as the recession was getting underway.

The son and brother of presidents, Bush said in December he planned to explore a campaign and then immediately set out to tap his and his family’s deep roster of experienced fundraisers and likely donors.

According to a RealClearPolitics average of polls, Bush is in the lead among Republican presidential candidate hopefuls with 16.3 percent.

Essentially the more businesses were able to sell, the more they paid their workers. “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 currently do”.