Union Leaders Boo McCain on Immigration

Yahoo & AP ^ | April 4, 2006 | RON FOURNIER

[lauriehelds]

McCain responded by saying immigrants were taking jobs nobody else wanted. He offered anybody in the crowd $50 an hour to pick lettuce in Arizona.

Shouts of protest rose from the crowd, with some accepting McCain's job offer.

"I'll take it!" one man shouted.

McCain insisted none of them would do such menial labor for a complete season. "You can't do it, my friends."

Some in the crowd said they didn't appreciate McCain questioning their work ethic.

[Dallas59]

Yep. $50 an hour is good. I could have my truck paid off real quick.

[DemforBush]

As a kid, I picked corn for less than a tenth of that.

[Dallas59]

That's $400 a day. But if I'm going to work like an illegal...NO TAXS!

[bad company]

I worked 60-70 hour weeks at a very physical job for a little more than five years. John McCain can kiss my ass.

[sageb1]

$50/hr to pick lettuce? Arizona here I come!

[unseen]

Kind of shows what our elected leaders think of Americans doesn't it. Let's see we are too lazy to work and we wouldn't even work for $50.00/hr. What an ass. It's this type of thinking from our ELECTED leaders that has got this country where it is. No wonder they are spending billions on projects. They have to pay more than $50/hr to get us to work. What a crock of crap. This man will never be president IMO.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Who could afford to eat lettuce that cost $50/hr to pick?

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

This is snobby elitism I'd expect from limosuine liberals.

[staytrue]

50 dollars an hour in Wash DC is lower middle class (after taxes).

[unseen]

the person picking the lettuce.

[Samurai_Jack]

"John McCain can kiss my ass."

He can also kiss his presidential aspirations goodbye...

This is a fatal blow.

[river rat]

John McCain "jumped the shark", long ago - in Vietnam...
He still hasn't "come home"...

Semper Fi

[unseen]

nope country club reps do it just find too. Oh where Lord are there any good leaders? Please Lord save us from these people.

[demlosers]

Hmmmmm...

That's $96,000 a year.

[bannedfromdu]

Major mistake and the buttmunch is gonna pay for it.

Rich fool thinks $50 an hour is low wages. Get in touch with reality NUMBNUTS

[bluefish]

This idiot is merely projecting.

[speed_addiction]

In 1979, during summer break in college I steamed cleaned the inside of garbage trucks for $2.90 an hour. That was the minimum wage then. It was without a doubt the worst job I ever had. Even worse than shearing sheep. All day long in 100+ West Texas heat, in a biohazard suit, smelly, soupy, foul water up to my ankles inside those trucks.


What We Are About To Do Here Is What The Good Lord Would Call A Cleansing of the Wicked. I Call It A Good Old Fashioned Texas Ass Kicking.

[Dr. Frank fan]

Economic idiots say things like this: "...immigrants were taking jobs nobody else wanted".

Immigrants accept wages few others would accept.

It's not the same thing. Economic idiots think that it is.

Without immigrants to take lower wages, wages would have to rise, and the price of some stuff would be a little bit higher. Big fricking deal. Meanwhile, economic idiots think that the world would end.

Boil it down and it's hard to escape the conclusion that (unless he's simply an economic idiot) poor millionaire John McCain doesn't wanna hafta pay a little bit more for his lettuce, so he's cool with letting people come here under dangerous shady conditions to eke out a second-class-citizen illicit existence picking lettuce so's he can buy it a little bit cheaper.

The truly ironic thing is that the preceding paragraph is supposedly the "liberal" point of view.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

Instead of RINOS we should call them SKUNKS.
It wouldn't be so bad if they pi$$ed out of the tent but they often pi$$ into the tent.