Thread: 3000 respond to Senator McCain's job offer

a friend emailed this to me from projectusa


3000 respond to Senator McCain's job offer


OK, so he's not much of a senator, but his Help Wanteds are awesome


Legions of aspiring lettuce-pickers are responding from around the country, including Alaska and Hawaii, to Senator John McCain, who, the Associated Press reported, offered anybody in a Michigan crowd "$50 an hour to pick lettuce in Arizona."

Over 3000 have responded so far, many, bless their lettuce-pickin' hearts, also contributing a much-needed $2 or $12 or whatever. (When you read some of the applications, you get a sense of just how precious those contributions are*both in terms of some of the respondents' financial situations, and in terms of the 28 million lobbyist dollars the U.S. Chamber of Commerce spent last year squashing the voice of the American voter.)

If you would like to get in on the opportunity to pick lettuce for a U.S. senator, don't delay. We want to hand-deliver these job applications as soon as Congress returns from their junkets over Easter excess. We don't want to keep the senator waiting; who knows how badly his lettuce needs picking?

Even if, for some reason, you'll need to pass up the chance to pick a senator's lettuce, it's worth reading the applications.

If you are a U.S. senator, they are epecially worth a read, because, you know, you'll have to face one of those stupid vote things again when you get back from Thailand.

Worse, the vote will likely be about immigration, and you know how nerve-wracking those can be. The Party pulling this way, the constituents flooding your office with faxes pulling that way and causing members of an overworked staff to snap at one another*even to tear up and rush indecorously from the room.

Worst, that intolerable advertising man from Texas, Karl Rove, will be hanging around screeching at everyone that you all hate brown people.

Do yourself a favor, Senator, spend an hour or two reading these job applications from real people. They will make it crystal clear where your duty lies (and give you the ammunition necessary to send Rove scurrying).
Inside: applications posted [by 100] [ random browse and vote]
Inside: accepting applications


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I love it. I wish I were present to watch McCain chew his own foot off.

MJ

Who knows maybe we will all get the jobs we applied for, LOL. Want to see the expression on his face when he gets the applications