Out of Touch: Anti-McCain Ad

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It's sad to see people defending Mr. No-American-Wants-To-Pick-Lettuce-For-Fifty-Dollars-An-Hour on the charge of being out of touch.

This is the only aspect of John McCain's immigration policy with which I agree -- Americans will not do brute (i.e., non-mechanized) agricultural work for any amount of money.

But, more importantly, why do you care?

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It's sad to see people defending Mr. No-American-Wants-To-Pick-Lettuce-For-Fifty-Dollars-An-Hour on the charge of being out of touch.

This is the only aspect of John McCain's immigration policy with which I agree -- Americans will not do brute (i.e., non-mechanized) agricultural work for any amount of money.

But, more importantly, why do you care?

You really need to get a reality check.

Its not at all unusual for such work to be done by Americans.

Lots of agriculture relies on teen-agers doing such work during the summer vacation.

From the Bureau of Labor Statistics

Education and training. Most farmworkers learn their jobs quickly as they work; many do not have a high school diploma. People without a high school diploma are particularly common in the crop production sector, which is more labor-intensive and employs more migrant farmworkers.

Well, who are crop workers? Overwhelmingly, they are young male Mexicans, with the American contingent limited to old blacks and whites, according to the National Agricultural Workers Survey

It's pretty safe to argue that native born Americans will not perform migrant field labor, unless they have been born into it.