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Jeb Bush: People Need to Work Longer Hours
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Gotta make up the hours
god dammit gwb
Empyrean Heaven
Member
"You will work more hours..."
SolarPowered
Member
Fuck that guy
I've worked 60 hour weeks and 16-18 hour shifts. I don't need that in my life again.
I've worked 60 hour weeks and 16-18 hour shifts. I don't need that in my life again.
HideyoshiJP
Member
Don't Americans already work more hours than many other comparatively developed nations? I remember the Italian guy seated next to me on a flight being surprised that I could take three weeks off to visit Japan, which is oddly enough another workaholic nation. Sheesh.
BassForever
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I'd be cool with the option to work over 40 hours with OT if I wanted to, or at least the option to work 4 10 hour days instead of 5 8 hour ones.
That said I don't think that's what he was implying with his statement.
That said I don't think that's what he was implying with his statement.
Let's be real: a GOP candidate could come on live TV, stare straight into the camera, and tell everyone that they're lazy idiots, he hates <insert ethnic group here>, and that he's going to take away all of their benefits because reasons, and republican voters would still line up to vote for them.
soul creator
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Jeb Kutaragi
bah, beaten
bah, beaten
GameAddict411
Member
even republicans will hate this dude.
Now let's not derail the thread and start talking about Donald Trump.
entremet
Member
You underestimate voting patterns in the US, the land of temporary embarrassed millionaires.
Princess Viola
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You first Jeb. 
Abstruse Moose
Member
No no, fuck you.
Gotta make up the hours
What's the asterisk by W.'s name for? Unless both him and Obama are serving their second terms simultaneously.
Gambit 1138
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Fuck you bush
TapeDispenser1000
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E the Shaggy
Junior Member
50 days a year. Fucking insane.
And not always despite what the candidate said.
Davey Cakes
Member
Honestly, we should move towards a 6-hour work day.
If I focused, I could get the same amount of work done in that amount of time. Distractions, pacing yourself out, mandatory lunch, and other things are why work takes 8-9 hours.
It's not a matter of productivity. It's a matter of making the time count. Oh, and getting folks to care about their jobs.
If I focused, I could get the same amount of work done in that amount of time. Distractions, pacing yourself out, mandatory lunch, and other things are why work takes 8-9 hours.
It's not a matter of productivity. It's a matter of making the time count. Oh, and getting folks to care about their jobs.
Mechanized
Member
If anything people should work fewer hours. France knows what's up. We shouldn't have to spend the majority of our lives working, we should spend way more time actually enjoying life.
they're comparing obama's time up until that count was taken to the same amount of time in gwb's presidency. clinton and reagan's numbers are the total amount through both terms.
evilromero
Member
This. Spending time with the family and just doing things at home is crucial for improving quality of life.
ErasureAcer
Banned
JEB knows he can't win so he's just getting those initials out there: Just Elect Bernie.
No, it's a matter of getting a fair wage and benefits for the work that you do, which companies have been shaving off, and the government has been bending over backwards to make sure they can. The working conditions for the average American are absurd compared to other developed nations, and his solution is to tack on more hours? I almost like his brother better.
Shao Kahn on the Lawn
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How about adjusting compensation nationwide to account for the huge gap between wages/productivity that has developed over the last 4 decades before insisting that people be even more ways to be productive?
CrocMother
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You do realize that a lot of people get paid by the hour, right?
SocksAndShoes
Banned
I spend 1/2 of my waking hours working, So let me propose this alternative to you Jeb:
Go fuck yourself.
Go fuck yourself.
BreezyLimbo
Banned
"You will work more hours..."
This was my first thought. Is Jeb trying to sell people PS3's?
gutter_trash
Banned
seriously
people need to spend more time with family, be there for their kids, spend quality time taking care of their elderly parents
what's the point of working more hours when you have no maternity leave and have to take sick days just to have time off
Mechanized
Member
Pay rates would be adjusted, more people would be able to get jobs to cover open hours. It's win-win-win. This work to die mentality needs to end.
That wasn't for his full time in office, that figure is over 530 days.
BlueTsunami
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Burning cart before the horse. How about you tell us how you'll get the jobs back before you crack the whip.
entremet
Member
8 hours workdays are a relic from the the industrial revolution.
It made sense to work long hours since it was directly correlated to the amount of widgets you can produce.
However, a lot of today's knowledge work is more fluid.
And this is yet another example of how that "both parties are the same" nonsense is bullshit. Americans already spend way too much damn time working as it is (most people for much less money than they should be making) while the people born into money talk about how lazy everyone is. Get the fuck outta here.
CreepingFear
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Came here just to say Fuck off Jeb!
Walter White Walker
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Guy that claims to be pro-family wants parents working more hours which means they'll spend even less times with their kids.
He can seriously go fuck himself. Asshole.
He can seriously go fuck himself. Asshole.
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