McCain sure thinks you won't. This story has been kicking around for a few days now. I think it's huge. A diary on this by MoDem on Friday got only one comment.
Why is this huge? It shows how out of touch McCain is with every day life and why Republicans will never solve the immigration crisis.
Is this story not getting more play because people believe McCain? Go to the Midwest and ask around. You'll get plenty of people who would tell their kids to pick lettuce for fifty dollars an hour for the summer for their college tuition. I'd have done it.
Manual labor is an honorable thing in the Midwest. I have a college degree now. But money is money. I wouldn't hestitate to put my kids out picking lettuce if it meant that kind of money. This is the talkingpoints memo original post. There is also some discussion on it, what McCain actually meant:
But in a Q&A with construction and building trade unions, in an effort to illustrate why undocumented migrant farm workers will do work Americans will not, he used this example ...
SEN. JOHN MCCAIN (R), ARIZONA: Now, my friends, I'll offer anybody here $50 an hour if you'll go pick lettuce in Yuma this season and pick for the whole season. So -- OK? Sign up. OK.
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.