{"id":164917,"date":"2015-07-10T02:02:37","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T02:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=164917"},"modified":"2015-07-10T02:06:55","modified_gmt":"2015-07-10T02:06:55","slug":"jeb-bush-people-need-to-work-longer-hours-media-soften-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/jeb-bush-people-need-to-work-longer-hours-media-soften-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeb Bush: “People Need to Work Longer Hours.” Media Soften It."},"content":{"rendered":"

Reuters & CNBC, Etc.: “Bush says Americans should have\u00a0chance to work longer hours in\u00a0improved economy.\u201d<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Eric Zuesse<\/span><\/p>\n

Jeb Bush, on July 8th: <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMy aspiration for the country, and I believe we can achieve it, is 4 percent growth as far as the eye can see.\u00a0Which means we have to be a lot more productive, workforce participation has to rise from its all-time modern\u00a0lows. It means that <\/i>people need to work longer hours<\/i><\/b>, and, through their productivity, gain more income for their\u00a0families. That’s the only way we’re going to get out of this rut that we’re in.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Here is his statement in a youtube video of just that 30-second passage (+ 8 seconds):\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_zLYmwgKPmU<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Republican U.S. Presidential candidate Jeb Bush was interviewed in a grainy video on 8 July 2015, by New Hampshire’s far-right (i.e., authoritarian) newspaper, Manchester Union-Leader<\/i>, which interview they buried on their website, but the newsworthy comment in it (cited just above) is at\u00a016:11-16:40 on their buried and muddy-sounding 54-minute-long boring interview video here<\/span><\/a>, where Bush had been asked about his plan for the U.S. economy.<\/span><\/p>\n

In what follows, you will see the openings of the media reports about this statement by Bush. You will see \u2018news\u2019 media trying to soften the candidate\u2019s statement, by adding their own commentary to it, some of which commentary is outright false [and my own commentaries about the \u2018news\u2019 reports about Bush\u2019s comment will be in brackets, like here]:<\/span><\/p>\n

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REUTERS:<\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/uk.reuters.com\/article\/2015\/07\/09\/us-usa-election-bush-idUKKCN0PJ04T20150709<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Bush says Americans should have\u00a0chance to work longer hours in\u00a0improved economy<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

[That headline is false. Bush did not say \u201cchance to work longer hours.\u201d Furthermore, instead of \u201cin improved economy,\u201d he said \u201cto get out of this rut that we\u2019re in,\u201d so a euphemistic paraphrase was used instead of simply an honest quotation, which is only a few words longer than the paraphrase. Reuters apparently wants to provide its own softened interpretation, perhaps fearing that to provide an actual quotation instead would generate in the reader an interpretation that\u2019s less accepting of the basic aristocratic system, which the media are being paid to propagandize for.]<\/span><\/p>\n

Thu Jul 9, 2015 3:23am BST. HUDSON, NEW HAMPSHIRE\u00a0|\u00a0BY\u00a0STEVE HOLLAND \u2013 Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush said Americans should have the chance to work longer\u00a0hours, a remark that drew criticism from Democrats but which he said was intended to highlight that an\u00a0improved U.S. economy could create more full-time jobs. \u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

[That lead sentence is false. Bush did not say that \u201cAmericans should have the chance to work longer hours.\u201d]<\/span><\/p>\n

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GUARDIAN:<\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/jul\/09\/jeb-bush-says-americans-need-to-work-longer-hours-to-earn-more-for-their-families<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Jeb Bush says Americans \u2018need to work longer\u00a0hours\u2019 to earn more<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Reuters, Thursday 9 July 2015<\/span><\/p>\n

Jeb Bush has said Americans should have the chance to work longer hours. \u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

[That lead sentence is false. Guardian failed to verify the \u2019news\u2019 report from Reuters.]<\/span><\/p>\n

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POLITICO:<\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2015\/07\/jeb-bush-people-should-work-longer-hours-119884.html<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Jeb Bush: ‘People\u00a0should work longer\u00a0hours\u2019<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

[That headline is false. Bush did not say \u201cPeople should work longer hours.”<\/span><\/p>\n

By\u00a0HANNA TRUDO\u00a07\/8\/15 10:05 PM EDT\u00a0Updated\u00a07\/9\/15 12:56 PM EDT<\/span><\/p>\n

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush on Wednesday seemed to\u00a0propose a bold solution for economic troubles: \u201cPeople\u00a0should work longer hours.\u201d \u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

[That lead sentence is false. Bush proposed no \u201cbold solution for economic troubles.\u201d And \u2013 as noted about the headline \u2013 he did not say \u201cPeople should work longer hours.\u201d]<\/span><\/p>\n

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WASHINGTON POST:<\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/post-politics\/wp\/2015\/07\/08\/jeb-bush-people-need-to-work-longer-hours-means-they-need-full-time-not-part-time-work\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Jeb Bush: \u2018People need to work\u00a0longer hours\u2019 means they need\u00a0full-time, not part-time work<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

By Ed O\u2019Keefe, July 8 at 8:45 PM. <\/span>HUDSON, N.H. \u2013 Jeb Bush raised eyebrows on Wednesday by suggesting that “people need\u00a0to work longer hours” in order to grow the economy.<\/span><\/p>\n

But he later clarified the comment, moving quickly to quell a fresh assault by Democrats\u00a0eager to characterize the Republican presidential front-runner as out of touch. \u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

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NEW YORK TIMES:<\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/politics\/first-draft\/2015\/07\/09\/jeb-bush-and-hillary-clinton-spar-over-worker-hours\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton Spar Over Worker Hours<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Alan Rappeport, Jul. 9, 2015, 8:44 AM ET \u2013 The sparring between the presidential candidates Jeb Bush and Hillary\u00a0Rodham Clinton has started early, and in this case the fight is over who better\u00a0understands the plight of the American worker.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr. Bush caused a stir on Wednesday when he appeared to suggest in New\u00a0Hampshire that Americans needed to start putting in more hours.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe have to be a lot more productive,\u201d Mr. Bush said, referring to how to 4\u00a0percent economic growth could be achieved. \u201cWork force participation has to\u00a0rise form its all time modern lows, it means that people need to work longer\u00a0hours and through their productivity gain more income for their families.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Democrats seized on the notion that Americans were not working hard\u00a0enough. \u2026\u00a0The former Florida governor, a Republican, later clarified his remarks, explaining that he was referring\u00a0to the glut of part-time workers who have not been able to find full-time employment in the aftermath of\u00a0the recession.\u00a0\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

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OTHERS:<\/span><\/p>\n

The general news coverage on Bush\u2019s remark was like the Post<\/i> <\/span>and the Times:<\/i> <\/span>it emphasized the criticisms that Hillary Clinton and some other Democrats had of Bush\u2019s statement, but buried and truncated Bush\u2019s statement itself, so that the predominant impression was: Democrats are lunging at Bush. The \u2018coverage\u2019 was of the game, not of the policy-prescription itself, as if the public are too stupid to care about a Presidential candidate\u2019s policy-prescription.<\/span><\/p>\n

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CONCLUSION<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

The \u2018news\u2019 media treat well-financed political candidates as if they are fragile creatures who need to be protected from the stupid public, by \u2018clarifying\u2019 what they \u2018really meant to say.\u2019 And, then, when the \u2018opposite\u2019 political party attacks, the \u2018news\u2019 reporting is about the battle between the two parties, not about the battle between both of those parties (both wings of the U.S. aristocracy) versus the public.<\/span><\/p>\n

Unlike the many other \u2018news\u2019 reports about Bush\u2019s statement, the present one will not pollute Bush\u2019s statement with any commentary about it. His comment stinks enough on its own. As usual, the more important, and far more interesting, news is actually the corruptness of the \u2018news\u2019 media, and the resulting difficulty for voters to make accurately informed electoral choices between the various candidates that the aristocracy offer us, which accurately informed choices might terrify the \u2019news\u2019 media, if that were ever to happen. However, when the choice is between candidates such as the Bushes and the Clintons, or the Obamas and the Romneys, etc., the aristocracy have nothing whatsoever to worry about. And, if somehow an anti-aristocratic candidate were to win one of the two parties\u2019 nomination, the aristocracy would probably still win, because they own the \u2018news\u2019 media too. There are many things, such as Obama\u2019s \u2018trade\u2019 deals, that the public don\u2019t like but that get \u2018democratically\u2019 rammed through no matter what. What the public want doesn\u2019t make any real difference<\/span><\/a> in America.<\/span><\/p>\n

Any Presidential candidate who insults voters by asserting that the solution to the nation\u2019s economic problems is \u201cPeople need to work longer hours,\u201d shouldn\u2019t even be in the race: he\u2019s not only a callous aristocrat; he\u2019s stupid, if not outright bigoted, and overflowing with blatant self-righteous arrogance.<\/span><\/p>\n

And any \u2018news\u2019 reporting of such a comment, that consists of either the political game-play, or else interpretation of the comment on the part of \u2018news\u2019 media, isn\u2019t worthy of being printed onto even toilet paper. It should have less attention paid to it than that, and it stinks as bad. It simply shouldn\u2019t be touched. But the comment itself should receive lots of public attention, because it blatantly displays the candidate\u2019s callous trashiness, which the \u2018news\u2019 media are trying to hide from the public, as best they can. <\/span><\/p>\n

So: don\u2019t expect to see this news-article and commentary published in many \u2018news\u2019 media, though it has been submitted to virtually all of them. The \u2018news\u2019 media always refuse to publish anything that exposes the fraudulence of \u2018our\u2019 \u2018democratic\u2019 \u2018free\u2019 \u2018press.\u2019 Exposing that is an absolute no-no, in the \u2018press.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cFreedom of the press?\u201d What\u2019s that? And where can one read about it? You just did \u2013 here (and maybe it\u2019s available noplace else).<\/span><\/p>\n

———-<\/span><\/p>\n

Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of They\u2019re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010<\/i><\/span><\/a>,<\/i> and of \u00a0<\/i>CHRIST\u2019S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity<\/i><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reuters & CNBC, Etc.: “Bush says Americans should have\u00a0chance to work longer hours in\u00a0improved economy.\u201d Eric Zuesse Jeb Bush, on July 8th: \u201cMy aspiration for the country, and I believe we can achieve it, is 4 percent growth as far as the eye can see.\u00a0Which means we have to be a lot more productive, workforce […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1254,"featured_media":164918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[461,1622],"tags":[937,30,27,96,1097,3094,804,49,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-164917","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-editorials","8":"category-featured","9":"tag-937","10":"tag-big-brother","11":"tag-bush","12":"tag-cover-up","13":"tag-economy","14":"tag-jeb-bush","15":"tag-politics-2","16":"tag-usa-news","17":"tag-white-house"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1254"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}