Jeb Bush Says People Need to Work Longer Hours

Here is his statement in full: “My aspiration for the country, and I believe we can achieve it, is 4 percent growth as far as the eye can see”. This entails that we’ll obtain being a little more fruitful, involvement of personnel will have to grow of its record modern day low end. This means, he said, “that people need to work longer hours and through their productivity gain more income for their families”.

Bush blasted the the state of the economy under President Obama, which he says has too many part-time workers and and welfare programs.

Asked whether he was saying “somebody working two jobs needs to be working even more time”, Bush replied, “Absolutely not”.

(MEDIA GENERAL) – Rivals have been quick to attack Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush after he said in an interview that in order to grow the economy, Americans “should work longer hours”.

Bush said fellow Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s comments last week characterizing Mexican immigrants as criminals, drug dealers and rapists was “extraordinarily ugly”. Democrats were successful in making that charge against 2012 Republican nominee Mitt Romney, and would like to do the same with Bush.

DNC spokeswoman Holly Shulman called it a comment, which is out-of-touch and said that Bush is not going to fight for the middle class.

Speaking to a campaign event in New Hampshire, Bush said Wednesday that his support for allowing people in the country illegally to stay in the US does not suggest leniency toward those who have committed crimes. The labor force participation rate so far in 2015, about 62.5 percent, is hardly near an all-time low.

In the 2016 election, Jeb Bush has now told workers anxious about being able to feed their families to work longer hours.

“If anyone is celebrating this anemic recovery, then they are totally out of touch”, Bush said.

“The simple fact is people are really struggling”, he added, The Hill reports. “If not, you’re going to see people lose hope”. “And that’s where we are today”.

Campaign chairman John Podesta tweeted: ‘Americans are working pretty hard already & don’t need to work longer hours – they need to get paid more.’.