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EarlG

(22,007 posts)
Fri Jun 12, 2015, 10:23 AM Jun 2015

Pic Of The Moment: Friday Flashback: Jeb Bush Tells Women In Financial Distress To "Find A Husband"



Jeb Bush to women on welfare in 1994: 'Get a husband'


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Pic Of The Moment: Friday Flashback: Jeb Bush Tells Women In Financial Distress To "Find A Husband" (Original Post) EarlG Jun 2015 OP
If memory serves me correctly after he lost that election to Lawton Chiles (D) Fritz Walter Jun 2015 #1
He's an asshole either way. nt valerief Jun 2015 #2
+1 Enthusiast Jun 2015 #13
+2 Fritz Walter Jun 2015 #40
Well, his brother never let being drunk stop him from appearing in public. NYC Liberal Jun 2015 #37
And we're still cleaning up his mess. Fritz Walter Jun 2015 #41
no matter how much lipstick you put on, a repug will always remain a repug. samsingh Jun 2015 #3
I was gonna say "pig" ..but yuiyoshida Jun 2015 #36
OMG. He actually said this in 1994, not 1954. SunSeeker Jun 2015 #4
I want my husband now, please dickthegrouch Jun 2015 #5
This is a really good point JustAnotherGen Jun 2015 #21
Asshole! SoapBox Jun 2015 #6
Coming from someone who has inherited how many millions of dollars hibbing Jun 2015 #7
And then, like his bother,... 63splitwindow Jun 2015 #39
Jeb used the E I Bank to funnel money to Liberia, through Liberian officials and profiteers, then DhhD Jun 2015 #54
Newsflash: "Spoiled, pampered, never worked a day in their lives assholes like this" randys1 Jun 2015 #8
What century & world JEB, Pat Robertson & other Repubs live in I don't know. Get a grip- appalachiablue Jun 2015 #9
Rumor has it that Lindsey Graham is available. douggg Jun 2015 #10
So... RiverNoord Jun 2015 #47
This guy has spent far too much time at parties that are sausage fests. Spitfire of ATJ Jun 2015 #11
Poor jebby. Don't you know that a lot of us women are in economic distress because of poor jwirr Jun 2015 #12
Hey, Jeb, find a country. You can't have ours. nt valerief Jun 2015 #14
You have got to be kidding me! gaspee Jun 2015 #15
Bushes have erotic fantasies of Penal Feudalism Dont call me Shirley Jun 2015 #16
Penal VA_Jill Jun 2015 #32
... Dont call me Shirley Jun 2015 #42
Oh snap Kalidurga Jun 2015 #51
Hey, remember Mitt saying packman Jun 2015 #17
lol - that was a good one. RiverNoord Jun 2015 #48
Dayum! This dude's living in the past! n/t SpankMe Jun 2015 #18
Such a moron!!!! nt MADem Jun 2015 #19
Side note: how long ago WAS Jeb Governor? underpants Jun 2015 #20
He's a Republican, though NewJeffCT Jun 2015 #22
Funny... I had a lot more money Ino Jun 2015 #23
So says Silver Spoon II riversedge Jun 2015 #24
Let's be honest here.... AlbertCat Jun 2015 #25
Hey, hey, hey!!! RiverNoord Jun 2015 #49
Fuck yourself, Jeb shenmue Jun 2015 #26
I'll second that motion. 47of74 Jun 2015 #29
Third! VA_Jill Jun 2015 #33
Divorce and find ANOTHER husband HockeyMom Jun 2015 #27
Dear Jeb - We are divorcing you. Gumboot Jun 2015 #28
Has Jeb ever had an actual job in his life? 47of74 Jun 2015 #30
Oink oink! Phentex Jun 2015 #31
what a fucking filthy rich idiot heaven05 Jun 2015 #34
jeb encouraging abortion is pro-life! captainarizona Jun 2015 #35
I think every man who needs/wants a new job should Tweet #onwelfareneedhusband... Moonwalk Jun 2015 #38
Oh, it's all soooo simple: if you're a Republican! maddiemom Jun 2015 #43
how do people this stupid, this clueless, manage to walk upright and breathe? niyad Jun 2015 #44
So, Jeb thinks everybody on welfare is a woman? Ken Burch Jun 2015 #45
... Kali Jun 2015 #46
I think I did pretty well Sophiegirl Jun 2015 #50
I believe in marriage ShawnRIN Jun 2015 #52
And I know plenty of women who'd like to find a man to marry but can't lostnfound Jun 2015 #53
humbug allan01 Jun 2015 #55
JERK!!! calimary Jun 2015 #56
That Bush family is all either nuts or crazy or stupid or all 3. passnobuck Jun 2015 #57

Fritz Walter

(4,292 posts)
1. If memory serves me correctly after he lost that election to Lawton Chiles (D)
Fri Jun 12, 2015, 10:35 AM
Jun 2015

...he was too drunk to make any public appearances for three days.

Help me out here, fellow Floridians: did that really happen, or is it an urban legend?

NYC Liberal

(20,140 posts)
37. Well, his brother never let being drunk stop him from appearing in public.
Fri Jun 12, 2015, 05:29 PM
Jun 2015

Did it regularly as pResident.

Fritz Walter

(4,292 posts)
41. And we're still cleaning up his mess.
Fri Jun 12, 2015, 05:48 PM
Jun 2015

the last thing we need is another drunk -- dry or otherwise -- with his/her finger on the button!

SunSeeker

(51,838 posts)
4. OMG. He actually said this in 1994, not 1954.
Fri Jun 12, 2015, 11:14 AM
Jun 2015

BTW Jeb, most women marry for love not money. Are you projecting? Do you think all women are like the ones around you?

dickthegrouch

(3,192 posts)
5. I want my husband now, please
Fri Jun 12, 2015, 11:21 AM
Jun 2015

Thankfully my State would actually let me marry him, but many still don't (including Jeb's sorry excuse for a law-abiding State (full faith and credit be damned)).

hibbing

(10,119 posts)
7. Coming from someone who has inherited how many millions of dollars
Fri Jun 12, 2015, 11:41 AM
Jun 2015

Maybe he should invite some of these women to the family compound in Kennebunkport to meet some uber wealthy single men.

Peace

 

63splitwindow

(2,657 posts)
39. And then, like his bother,...
Fri Jun 12, 2015, 05:45 PM
Jun 2015

every penny he ever has made has been the result of family connections---- "the good old boy network" of the old money wealthy elite class.

DhhD

(4,695 posts)
54. Jeb used the E I Bank to funnel money to Liberia, through Liberian officials and profiteers, then
Sat Jun 13, 2015, 08:54 AM
Jun 2015

back to the US, and into his pocket. (TX Cruz and Cornyn just voted in the Senate to close the Export Import Bank.)

randys1

(16,286 posts)
8. Newsflash: "Spoiled, pampered, never worked a day in their lives assholes like this"
Fri Jun 12, 2015, 11:41 AM
Jun 2015

Dont like you people.

Let me help you out here, you see it is like this:

"There are limited natural resources in this world. Limited clean water, clean air and there are only so many lakes and rivers to play in or fish in, there are only so many beaches to lay on, and there are only so many ORGANS FOR TRANSPLANTS."

You people take up space, natural resources, and god forbid, medical sources and limited resources both medically and environmentally.


Your existence, especially now that non Americans do ALL the work, build EVERYTHING, make EVERYTHING, is no longer needed.

You are in the way.



 

RiverNoord

(1,150 posts)
47. So...
Fri Jun 12, 2015, 09:23 PM
Jun 2015

with the progress of same-sex marriage, if a single man is struggling, Bush's advice should apply to them as well! If you're just not inclined that way, well, you know, he did suggest finding 'alternatives.' What should be paramount is your financial condition, and if you have to marry someone whose gender happens to be not really for you, well, you should just grit your teeth and... um... bear it.

Lindsay Graham, though? That's something even Bush would go 'whoa - let's think this through' to...

jwirr

(39,215 posts)
12. Poor jebby. Don't you know that a lot of us women are in economic distress because of poor
Fri Jun 12, 2015, 12:05 PM
Jun 2015

divorce settlement that leave us taking the burden of the cost of child care? And then there is the issue of non-child support. But then he is just carrying the war on women one more step.

gaspee

(3,231 posts)
15. You have got to be kidding me!
Fri Jun 12, 2015, 12:30 PM
Jun 2015

What a jerk! I have never seen this before and I know it was a long time ago, but once a jerk, always a jerk.

 

RiverNoord

(1,150 posts)
48. lol - that was a good one.
Fri Jun 12, 2015, 09:27 PM
Jun 2015

I wondered why he just didn't suggest picking dollars from the neighborhood money trees, which, hopefully, your parents had the sense to plant years ago...

When you're that out of touch with reality, you might as well go big...

NewJeffCT

(56,829 posts)
22. He's a Republican, though
Fri Jun 12, 2015, 01:40 PM
Jun 2015

Anything he says before today can be excused as a "youthful indiscretion"

 

AlbertCat

(17,505 posts)
25. Let's be honest here....
Fri Jun 12, 2015, 02:41 PM
Jun 2015

So Jeb.... what's the excuse for Corporate Welfare?

If a company can't do what it needs to do to survive without a bunch of perks.......

 

RiverNoord

(1,150 posts)
49. Hey, hey, hey!!!
Fri Jun 12, 2015, 09:36 PM
Jun 2015

They're Job Creators, and it's a tough global marketplace! They've got to compete with China, India... - well, maybe more like hire a lot of people in China and India, but..., you know - Job Creators!!! Don't you dare compare the vast amounts of money we give away to them, so they can be Job Creators, with the pittance we give the poor, who just aren't Job Creators at all. The couple of bucks we spend to help the poor recognize how so not 'Job Creators' they are pales in comparison to the mega-billions we give to Job Creators. It's insulting.

 

HockeyMom

(14,337 posts)
27. Divorce and find ANOTHER husband
Fri Jun 12, 2015, 03:15 PM
Jun 2015

if he loses his job and cannot find work for a year? Hello, Jebbie, job loss can happen to anyone: male, female, single, or married.

Gumboot

(531 posts)
28. Dear Jeb - We are divorcing you.
Fri Jun 12, 2015, 03:34 PM
Jun 2015

You'll find the locks changed and all your sh*t piled up in the driveway when you get back from the office.

Signed, America.


 

captainarizona

(363 posts)
35. jeb encouraging abortion is pro-life!
Fri Jun 12, 2015, 04:09 PM
Jun 2015

Jeb in his book said single moms should be shamed! Doesn't this encourage abortion. Also as gov. of floriduh he supported a bill along with marco rubio that forced woman who didn't want to have an abortion ;but gave up the baby for adoption to advertise who their sex partners were before they could give the baby up for adoption. Again this would encourage abortion as does limiting welfare to a few years. Strange for a pro-lifer. I guess once your born your on your own kid as the ayn randers say.

Moonwalk

(2,322 posts)
38. I think every man who needs/wants a new job should Tweet #onwelfareneedhusband...
Fri Jun 12, 2015, 05:45 PM
Jun 2015

...thanking Jeb for this magic bullet solution to his financial woes, and asking for a husband to be provided to him right away

Jeb didn't, after all, say "women" needed a husband to get off welfare. He said "people." That includes men. So, guys, get tweeting for that hubby! Who knew the solution to your economic problems was so easy?

 

Ken Burch

(50,254 posts)
45. So, Jeb thinks everybody on welfare is a woman?
Fri Jun 12, 2015, 08:11 PM
Jun 2015

And by "find a husband", may we assume he means "submit to the nearest available male without question"?

Sophiegirl

(2,338 posts)
50. I think I did pretty well
Sat Jun 13, 2015, 02:45 AM
Jun 2015

As a single mother who went from being a secretary to a Division Manager at my company. Took me a few years, but I did it. I didn't need a husband to make my life worthwhile. I went from making $22K in 1990 to making a six figure salary without a husband. My children's father was a Christian conservative who gave me Chlamydia while stationed in Germany back in the late 90s. While I was raising his toddlers. I think I did okay after I divorced his sorry ass. He claimed....to his church....that I had fallen in love with another man. Nope. The guy that he thought I was in love with was gay and was my best friend.

He should just STFU already. Both of them should.

ShawnRIN

(48 posts)
52. I believe in marriage
Sat Jun 13, 2015, 07:21 AM
Jun 2015

His comments are certainly not true as many have attested, but I won't go as far as saying living in a healthy marriage is not an advantage. His Christian vantage point supports his believe in marriage, man the head of the house etc. But Its flawed in that their are dirt bag husbands.

lostnfound

(16,204 posts)
53. And I know plenty of women who'd like to find a man to marry but can't
Sat Jun 13, 2015, 08:04 AM
Jun 2015

First off if they are working and have kids, it's hard to find time. Also, since many middle aged men have the habit of looking for women 10 or 15 years younger, and there are cities where the ratio is already very lopsided...

Of course I mean for companionship or love, not the ridiculous comment Jeb was making here.

calimary

(81,612 posts)
56. JERK!!!
Sat Jun 13, 2015, 12:14 PM
Jun 2015

Oh yeah it works just fine if every gal can find some rich trust-fund elitist like you, correct? Yeah. Like there's one of those available for every eligible woman who wants one.

 

passnobuck

(92 posts)
57. That Bush family is all either nuts or crazy or stupid or all 3.
Sat Jun 13, 2015, 04:26 PM
Jun 2015

All 3 of these Bush presidential candidate guys from the Bush family are just so out-of-touch with reality.

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