“Americans Won’t Pick Lettuce for $50/hr”

[240 is Back]

“Americans Won’t Pick Lettuce for $50/hr”

He says we need all these illegal immigrants because Americans "arent willing to pick lettuce for 50$ an hour"

[OzmO]

WOW.


let's see $50 an hour for 8 hours is $400 a day......7 days is.........$2800 a week........hmmmmm

That;s 100k+ a year.


This pandering cheating whore is an idiot.

[Tre]

As soon as she's old enough, I'm sending my kid to work on a farm and she'll be lucky to get $50 a day.  That's what I used to make in a week of hard labor! 

[Deicide]

“Americans Won’t Pick Lettuce for $50/hr”

He says we need all these illegal immigrants because Americans "arent willing to pick lettuce for 50$ an hour"

Uhmm yeah...

[Hugo Chavez]

he's done... He just showed how out of touch he is.  Is this new?  he thinks Americans won't pick lettuce for 50 bucks an hours... WOOOOOW...  did he just say he would pay them that wage if they stay the whole season?...  God, he really fucked himself with this... What an idiot jackass.

[Hugo Chavez]

I've just replayed this like 10 times, sure that I must have heard him wrong... lol... I just can't stop listening to this delusional crap...  This guy wants to be president?  and he's that out of touch with normal Joe America.  I mean really, WOOOOW!!!

[OzmO]

How long before some nippy ho comes in here are starts talking about 57 states?   

[240 is Back]

yeah, I think just about ANY American would pick lettuce for $104,000 per year.



Also recall that he had no clue what gas cost.  He needed to check his notes to see that milk was $4 per gallon.   He thinks $5 mil income is "rich".  He doesn't know how many homes he owns.  His finance team thinke the recession is "all in our heads" and the 41% devaluation of the dollar over the last 8 years is normal.

He has no clue what most folks go thru, or the economic times we're facing.

[OzmO]

yeah, I think just about ANY American would pick lettuce for $104,000 per year.



Also recall that he had no clue what gas cost.  He needed to check his notes to see that milk was $4 per gallon.   He thinks $5 mil income is "rich".  He doesn't know how many homes he owns.  His finance team thinke the recession is "all in our heads" and the 41% devaluation of the dollar over the last 8 years is normal.

He has no clue what most folks go thru, or the economic times we're facing.

He's also an adulterer who hates Gooks. 

[Hugo Chavez]

Posted by: Hugh Hewitt at 7:01 PM
I was defending John McCain on the show today --really-- and challenged as "urban myth" the story that he had declared that Americans wouldn't pick lettuce for $50 an hour.

Well, I stand corrected.  Here's the story:


As he steered his Straight Talk Express across the United States in recent weeks, Republican Sen. John McCain has tried to stay a-head of the immigration issue. But Friday the immigration issue delivered 36 or so heads to his Phoenix office — heads of lettuce, that is.


McCain has been getting skewered in the media for comments earlier this month to a union group in Washington, D.C., that immigrants are taking jobs no one else wants, and offered them $50 an hour to pick lettuce in the Arizona sun for a summer, suggesting they couldn't do it.



The senator didn't stick around long enough to process any applications, despite several offers to take him up on his offer from the audience.
So Friday more than three dozen demonstrators showed up at his office, many carrying lettuce picker applications in one hand, and a head of lettuce in the other to show they could do the job.
 


He said this to a union group? LOLOLOLOL...

[240 is Back]

The resounding boos were very obvious there.

If video emerges on this one... it could be big.

[Hugo Chavez]

McCain's message to the working class.  "you can't do it my friend!"  wow...

[Butterbean]

yeah, I think just about ANY American would pick lettuce for $104,000 per year.

I def. would...if there were no spiders.

[Hugo Chavez]

I def. would...if there were no spiders.

the southwest lettuce spider is one of the most deadly spiders   jk  There are scorpions and lizards but probably not a lot of insects in those fields.  plenty of pesticides.

[El_Pajero]

how about the black widow?

[Deicide]

I def. would...if there were no spiders.

Awesome calorie burner and bettter than deadlifts...

[Hugo Chavez]

how about the black widow?

I know for a fact that the black widows in Yuma are freaking huge. 

[Butterbean]

Awesome calorie burner and bettter than deadlifts...

True! And when working outside and I come across a spider I also get in some cardio (from running away screaming).

There are scorpions 

hmm...I may need a raise   

[stormshadow]

If there is such a great risk of spider bites, then why aren't all the Mexicans 450 lbs like Onlyme?

[gcb]

What you guys have to remember is that according to McCain $50 (~$100K a year) is poor to McCain.

[Straw Man]

If the audio is correct and true then McCain is offering to put up the $50 an hour to anyone who will do this and hopefully someone  take him up on this offer.

This guy is so far removed from reality that it's hard to even understand

Maybe he's just an idiot and can't do simple math (seriously, I think this is a big problem/blessing for the far right - they just claim ignorance)

Even if he can just claim he flubbed the $$$ he is still telling American workers that they are LAZY and literally not capable of doing the job.

wtf??

[240 is Back]

a few dozen folks showed up with applications later that day.

mccain's campaign refused to dignify them with a response.

[Straw Man]

a few dozen folks showed up with applications later that day.

mccain's campaign refused to dignify them with a response.

dignify them with a respose?

unless this audio if fake these are his own words

He's made an clear offer, some might even call it a challenge, and he should honor it or address why he won't

[tonymctones]

this thread shows how many ppl here actually have done manual labor, he is absolutely right there are jobs in america that the VAST VAST VAST majority of citizens would not do or could not do. Go work landscape go work with one of the mexican crews you see building a house. How these guys show up and do do that kinda work 5 days a week is beyond me. Given ive never picked lettuce and shoot it does sound a bit easier than some of the jobs ive done its still not gonna be a cake walk by any means. After a few days most and again MOST of the ppl that are citizens in this country would quit. Im telling you there are not enough willing citizens in this country to fill all the hard manual labor jobs...go try it for a day and you will have a new found respect for the ppl that do that kind of work.

[Bindare_Dundat]

McCain's message to the working class.  "you can't do it my friend!"  wow...

hahah, that was the best.

He may as well have, "You're all lazy pricks."

I don't think theres much people wouldn't do for $50 an hour.