crooksandliars:

Donald Trump is getting the lion’s share of attention in the Republican circus right now, but he is hardly the only 1%‘er who is utterly out of touch. The media loves Trump for his arrogant grandstanding and his remarkably unfiltered quotes – they make him so much less boring than every other presidential candidate. The fact is, though, that the arrogance among wealthy elites in this country is so high right now that aside from his showmanship, Trump really isn’t all that much out of the 1% mainstream.

Today’s example is Jeb Bush’s statement that people in this country need to work harder. The economic reality is that Americans already work harder than citizens in any other industrialized country; increased productivity is vastly outstripping wage gains; and a huge amount of workers work three or four jobs in order to (just barely) stay afloat. Bush’s statement is not only out of touch, it’s insulting. It is in some ways even worse than Romney’s 47% remarks. Not only are too many people leeches (those damn Social Security recipients, veterans, and disabled kids!), but the lazy ones who are working need to work harder.

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