Eugene Volokh has a good takedown of a really dumb thing John McCain said the other day. McCain made a statement that nobody in the crowd he was adressing would take a job picking lettuce for $50 per hour. Um. What planet does John McCain live on exactly?
But surely there must be some substantial number of current American citizens who would be quite willing to engage even in highly strenuous physical labor for an annualized wage of $100,000 per year, no? Even if 99% of all Americans would be unwilling or unable to do the job, the remaining 1% should be plenty to fill those hypothetical jobs.
Yeah, what he said.
I think Mitt Romney has McCain running a bit scared right now.
