This guy comes from a family who has completely exploited our country while raping and pillaging other countries for their own personal wealth. You're really on board with him telling us that we need to work harder? This isn't your dad telling you that hard work = success. This is basically your slave owner telling you that 8+ hours a day is not enough.
Unemployment doesn't exist because people are lazy. It's because a ton of the good jobs have been sent overseas and they left us with minimum wage service work. People are foaming at the mouth to land real middle class paying jobs. Which is why there are thousands of applicants and insane competition for what used to be considered your average run of the mill American job.
People like Jeb Bush want you to get into six figure debt to go to school. Then they want you to get out of school and work thousands and thousands of hours for free as an "intern". Then they want you to start at some menial $12/hr salary and just be happy that you're allowed to work to make someone else money. Then they say that you're still not working hard enough and you need to work more hours so you can jump start the economy. An economy that is designed to funnel the majority of your money and time spent into the pockets of him and his buddies.
Well, I think you are misconstruing his comments. I saw the quote as being aimed toward the underemployed (which, as you know, is a huge segment of the population right now). I'd agree with you if I interpreted his remarks as a kind of blanket statement.
And then there's the whole question of 'gainful' employment -- how much should every American require to 'live'? Isn't good health, food, and a stable income essentially all that one (and one's family) should absolutely need?
I love it when people start pointing at the government and corporations as the sole reasons why American jobs have been shipped overseas. Do you own an iPhone, or any Apple products? If so, throw that piece of **** in the toilet and recognize that you, too, were actually party to the padding of foreign pockets/greedy corporations. Or, is that too much self-responsibility? Are Americans even capable of that anymore?
Remember when mass-market American made cars were the **** (I don't -- but apparently they were at one point in history)? What happened there?
The American export market is practically artisanal.
Further, this notion of blaming the government for each and every woe is a bit old-hat. Do I give a **** what Jeb Bush tells me I
should do? No, because I'm actually out there on the mean streets every day trying to make money like every other American. I literally can't afford to sit around and wait for the government to guide me toward prosperity. Talk about being spoon-fed.
