SEN. JOHN MCCAIN (R), ARIZONA: “ My friends, I’ll offer anybody here $50 an hour if you’ll go pick lettuce in Yuma this season and pick for whole season. So — OK? Sign up. OK. When you sign up — you sign up, and you’ll be there for the whole season. The whole season, OK? Not just one day. Because you can’t do it, my friend. Sign up.”
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I could do in my younger days before my back surgery, Mr. McCain. I did plenty of jobs like that in the Texas summer to raise money for college. Now, given the choice of working hard and having self-esteem or accepting charity from the guv’ment, the welfare class of this country does the latter.
I could do it as a summer job, and if I lived near such an opportunity, I would. As it is, in my area I couldn’t make that kind of money per hour fixing computers or installing ‘entertainment systems’! That said, my summer will probably consist of a job at the local mall, or anything, as long as it’s not food service (just cause I’m so horrible at that), and ‘keep people from dying’ isn’t a part of the job description.
Sure, like McCain is really going to guarantee that $50/hr wage for the entire season? Not just one day for the photo ops? Nope, I didn’t think so. If he was telling the truth, he’d have applicants lined up and around the corner. If this an indication of the lies he’s going to be telling in the WH, I don’t want him.