Who Knew It Was This Easy?

[HIjol]

Jeb Bush: People Need to Work Longer Hours


Shoot, and I thought the Road to Economic Recovery was gonna be complicated and long.

"A 2014 Gallup Poll found that already many Americans employed full-time report working, on average, 47 hours a week, while nearly 4 in 10 say they work at least 50 hours a week."

Here is the whole thing.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/jeb-bush-people-work-longer-hours/story?id=32313997

Is this really the answer? I am interested in people's feedback, since I am a "more than full-time" American worker, and I am reluctant to work more hours.

Plus, I am almost 60. (cue Lilly von Schtupp...only sorta funny, this time)

 

[beamMe]

I'm sure he's right.
I mean, the 40-hour-week, a minimum of 4 weeks paid vacation, a maximum of 6 weeks of paid sick-leave per illness... sure have run my country into the ground.

So, Americans, you heard the man: you are too lazy.

 

[CorporalClegg]

Shouldn't that read "more hours"?

 

[Finn]

Wasn't there a study(or more) that came out a couple years back saying we Americans work too much?

 

[HIjol]

Shouldn't that read "more hours"?

And CorporalClegg wins the "21st Century Bushism Redux Award!

Please pick up your "Additional Part Time Job With Longer Hours" prize at Gate 7-11.

(See what I did there?)


CC, It is what the man said, "Longer Hours".

Must be some kind of Temporal Anomaly!

Wasn't there a study(or more) that came out a couple years back saying we Americans work too much?

There have been a number of them.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

So, Americans, you heard the man: you are too lazy.

Tell us something the Japanese didn't say decades ago

 

[Tora Ziyal]

Is this really the answer?

Of course it isn't!

(Now that really was "This Easy.")

 

[Robert Maxwell]

Fuck Jeb Bush. Gotta love a country where someone can work 3 jobs and still have no health insurance, no paid time off, and only be able to afford a shithole.

 

[Relayer1]

Most of Europe works 36-40 hours a week. I believe parts of Northern Europe work rather less, have a great standard of living and are very competetive.

If hard work and long hours equated with prosperity, there's a hell of a lot of people hiding their millions...

 

[Robert Maxwell]

The US is prosperous, all right, it's just all the prosperity is being funneled to the top few percent of the population.

 

[SpocksOddSocks]

Most of Europe works 36-40 hours a week. I believe parts of Northern Europe work rather less, have a great standard of living and are very competetive.

If hard work and long hours equated with prosperity, there's a hell of a lot of people hiding their millions...

In France you aren't allowed work more than 35 hours per week. France is one of the more productive EU countries with a good standard of living.

Due to unemployment and increases in productivity due to automation, the working week should be lower in order to help spread employment opportunities. My opinion I suppose, but I personally would not take a job where I was expected to work more than 37. Preferably less.

 

[DonIago]

If I worked fewer hours I might have to forego essential activitie like reading this forum and editing Wikipedia.

(ducks)

 

[SpocksOddSocks]

If I worked fewer hours I might have to forego essential activitie like reading this forum and editing Wikipedia.

(ducks)

In other words you maintain that time spent AT work IS work regardless of what you are actually doing

Nice

 

[Amaris]

I already work 24/7, what more does he want from me?

 

[Taylirious]

I already work 24/7, what more does he want from me?

Your soul!

 

[Mary Ann]

Probably, because Bush doesn't have one himself.

 

[Sector 7]

Look, it really is this simple: People should work more hours, without overtime pay, because that's the way the wealthy make even more money on the backs of the working class.

Many civilized nations are ahead of the US in the treatment of its workers. Those countries have happier citizens and are also prosperous.

Many companies have a limit of 28 hours per week, so they do not have to provide health insurance for their workers. Now Jeb Bush and his cronies want people who DO have full-time jobs to work even more hours without proper compensation. This is Republican corporate greed at its worst.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

Shouldn't that read "more hours"?

No, see, if Congress passes a law making work hours eighty minutes long, then companies can get 33% more labor for the same payroll expenditure. Everyone will benefit when the greater profits trickle down, employees too. Magic!

 

[beamMe]

Shouldn't that read "more hours"?

No, see, if Congress passes a law making work hours eighty minutes long, then companies can get 33% more labor for the same payroll expenditure. Everyone will benefit when the greater profits trickle down, employees too. Magic!

That's just their euphemism for pissing on the workforce, isn't it?

 

[Sector 7]

Shouldn't that read "more hours"?

No, see, if Congress passes a law making work hours eighty minutes long, then companies can get 33% more labor for the same payroll expenditure. Everyone will benefit when the greater profits trickle down, employees too. Magic!

That's just their euphemism for pissing on the workforce, isn't it?

Yes, it is.