Icky! A Job? $14-An-Hour? Fuhgetaboutit! (Sen Mel Martinez make up jobs)

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Icky! A Job? $14-An-Hour? Fuhgetaboutit!
By DANIEL RUTH
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That's the problem with this country, as the very junior Florida Sen. Mel Martinez so astutely noted the other evening on MSNBC's "Hardball."

There are just too many good-for-nothing, lazy, slob Americans sitting around eating bon-bons and refusing to get off their tushes to do an honest day's labor.

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"I was talking to a fellow who said they had 250 openings of which 900 people applied," Martinez told Matthews. "Not one was an American citizen, so it just goes to show you there's a demand for a work force that is not being met."


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Alas - how to put this gently - Florida's novitiate senator's office was unresponsive to a request for the name and contact information for the chap who supposedly had all those jobs that were being blown off by those Kato Kaelin-like Americans.

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is questionnable. There's something he's leaving out.

Toyota got 25,000 job applications for 1,500 jobs. I think he needs to be a bit more specific on the jobs & pay he's talking about.


AValdoux

that he did indeed talk to a fellow who told him that laughably false story.

I have two jobs, both of which pay much less than $14 an hour. And I'm very much an American citizen.