I really think Obama should make an ad with this, demonstrating how out of touch McCain really is. $50 an hour = $400 a day = $2000 a week = $8000 a month. Yet McCain is apparently under the impression that $50 an hour is a very low, unattractive wage.

You'd expect McCain to at least be aware that most people in the military, doing difficult, challenging work, don't make $8000 a month.

Hell, I'm a board certified doctor (albeit a bit of a lazy one), and I don't make 8000 dollars a month......

That's $96,000 a year. OK, the lettuce season may be a bit short, but still....it would only be considered peanuts by someone completely out of touch with reality.

I think the major point of this is that Americans, as in USA Americans, CAN'T do the work that others can. How is that possible in a perfect country.

The whole statement is ludicrous.

Of course, there should be a question mark after "country". Sorry.

The real question is, is there a difference between "can't" and the entitled "won't"?

Let me just say that he was talking to union members in the Building and Construction trades. They build fucking HOUSES in desert heat. Okay? Framing houses is HARDER than picking lettuce physically.

And they do it for a hell of a lot less than fifty fucking dollars an hour.

I wonder if they kicked his ass.

Harold Meyerson is a joke. TAPPED has strongly supported the same thing McCain is talking about, but apparently the increasingly desperate Obama campaign has given the green light to discuss this one speech. Of course, that's almost 2 and half years after I and many others criticized McCain for his remarks.

Apparently Harold Meyerson is a very, very slow learner.

Everything the Dems have done in regards to this issue has redounded to the benefit of the same growers that McCain is helping as well as the MexicanGovernment and all the others who profit from illegal activity.

The only way the Dems are worse is that they aren't shy about being linked to the Mexican government or their proxies. Some Dem politicians have direct links to that government and others frequently act like agents of that government.

So, it's more than a bit rich to see Dem hacks trying to pretend that they're better than McCain.

Harold Meyerson doesn't have the guts or the intelligence to debate me on this issue, but if he wants to try the email attached to this post works.

Actually, for those doing the numbers, a standard (40hr/wk) workyear is 2080 hours long. $50/hr works out to $104,000 per year. McCain's congressional staffers don't make that much, virtually none of his workers are paid that much by the campaign, and only a small percentage of Americans have ever made that much in a single year--less than five percent, I'd guess.

But McCain, his wife, and the eight lobbyists he's got advising him make that much and call it a pretty good month. I picked produce in the fields for about seven years in my early life--I made less than $20,000, in real dollars, in all those years combined (I only worked three months per year). If McCain were ever to make good on his offer in this video, I'd be in Yuma tomorrow.

Putz...

Kinda makes you scratch your head about him claiming he thinks "the fundamentals (aka American workers) of our economy are strong". Doesn't this video show his true feelings? That we are weak and wouldn't work hard for $50 per hour?