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August 28th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
You know why we can’t do it? We’re a nation of whiners!
August 28th, 2008 at 1:50 pm
This is one of those funny instances where he’s right, but his reasoning is wrong. We Americans WON’T do it for the $3 an hour those people really get. Which is why I refuse to get my underware in a bunch over illegal immigrants. I enjoy that I can get a head of lettuce for a little over a buck!! I refuse to build a wall around America so we’d have to pay “real Americans” to do it and I’d have to shell out $4 every time I want a salad at home! Those people ARE the backbone of America, McCain is right about that.
He is on the right side of this one, however his $50 comment just points to the fact that he’s a crusty old man and probably starting down the road to complete senility.
August 28th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
If American laborers did this job we would be paying $20 for a salad. He should have said $15 (about double what the immigrants are paid in Yuma) not $50. His point was that it is not about the unions getting fair wages rather them wanting every thing and not being able to work for it. We need to remember that all of these Project Labor Agreements that get laborers paid $32 per hour all come out of your wallet.
August 28th, 2008 at 5:15 pm
He’s wrong on both counts. You’d find plenty of people who’d do this for $15/hour.
And I do NOT agree with using $3 labor for it in the first place, including illegals. It is exploitive of those people and it’s disgusting.
And he wasn’t making the argument that people won’t do it for $3/hr, he was making the argument that the “job is too low for Americans and too hard to do” and we wouldn’t WANT it. Which is stupid. And wrong. And really really stupid. Did I mention stupid?
The other thing that’s really important here is the tone, and the fact he is being petulant AT the very voters he’s courting. It’s really amazing, and very self-destructive.
There’s also this interview, where a reporter encounters the Angry McCain first hand himself.
He’s become unhinged. I can find no other explanation.
August 28th, 2008 at 8:15 pm
There is a worker shortage there at $15 per hour.
Where McCain got his info???
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-11-20-winter-harvest_x.htm
They are not talking $3 per hour wages to get workers when there is a shortage. Not everything is a case of “abuse” by the mean business owners.
August 29th, 2008 at 7:54 am
Well, $8 per hour plus some piece work doesn’t go far these days, except maybe in Mexico. Should we import underpaid labor to do our dirty work for us? I don’t think so, unless we pay them a fair wage for the work. Of course any increase in wages would increase the price of the produce, but that may be the price we have to pay.
However, a better way may be to explore farming techniques that would require far fewer, but higher skilled and better compensated workers to bring in the harvests.