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In reply to the discussion: Jeb Bush: People Need to Work Longer Hours [View all]americannightmare
(322 posts)what I've felt for some time now, that economics and business management are religious studies, there's no thinking going on, just belief, belief in neoliberal and neoconservative economic policies. How else to explain how stupid they sound when they spew this crap? What he is describing is a similar principle to cutting taxes on the rich and corporations: if cutting taxes for this group created jobs, we'd be swimming in jobs!!! If working overtime meant economic growth, we'd have his bloody 4 percent growth!!! Meanwhile, conservatives want to cut the availability of overtime and cut overtime pay (not that anyone should have to work overtime to earn a decent living). No reasonable person could show a path to the kind of economic growth he is talking about, or any for that matter. There will never again be any significant economic growth in this country, even a WPA-style infrastructure program couldn't pull it off, but that's no reason not to do it! The cost of responding to/mitigating climate change alone will prevent significant growth, not to mention this little problem with the financial shenanigans on Wall Street.