Trump Agriculture Chief Mocked for Suggesting Medicaid Recipients Could Replace Deported Farm Workers
U.S. Agriculture Secretary defends mass deportation of immigrant farm laborers, suggests Americans on Medicaid can replace them.
Farm workers are chronically underpaid. Farm work could be good work if it was half as stressful and paid double.
What we need is a reform of the way that agriculture is done. Instead of relying on migrant workers who have no realistic chance of standing up and demanding a good treatment, the working conditions should be made attractive enough for americans to work there again.
I really want a manual labor job. I can stay in shape and listen to audiobooks all day long. I would happily dig ditches, mop floors, or do farm work.
I can’t afford to have most of those jobs. They don’t pay enough for me to afford to live.
The jobs that do require training and I can’t afford to stop working and learn.
Idk why Conservatives are so happy to force people into jobs that make them worse off than they already are.
How about we replace her with a turnip. It will definitely do a better job.
Is her name Marie-Antoinette by chance?
Fascists always have bad ideas.
Because smart people aren't fascists.
Fascists always have bad ideas.
They aren't bad ideas to fascists. You just have to understand that fascists consider you tools, not as people. All their ideas will be based on that.
Fascist leaders are good at manipulating stupid people. That does not mean smart fascists do not exist. Intelligence and morality are largely independent qualities, and some fascists are smart assholes, not morons tricked into it.
Doesn't apply in this specific case, but still: Assuming all fascists are stupid is dangerous; makes it easier for the smart ones to work against you.
"Aaawww! You need medical help? You want to see a doctor? You need medication? OFF TO THE FIELDS WITH YOU!"
GOP: "look, can we just skip to the part where we have slaves again?"
Work will set you free
Ah yes because my cancer having ass won't be physically wrecked trying to do work like that.
Do these assholes even listen to themselves?
EDIT: To those responding to me, this is less about me and more about the fact that they expect actual amounts of labor to be able to be done in this way. The job will be done badly, slowly, and inefficiently. The crop will still rot on the vine. Sure, it's because they want to hurt people, but like all fascist idiots, they fail to see how they're hurting themselves by reducing the ability for the wealthy to still actually turn a profit. Hard to profit off of a harvest that rots on the vine because your medicaid recipient workers literally cannot do the job fast enough.
As long as they perceive that they're hurting their targets more than they hurt themselves, they'll make that sacrifice.
Your cancer having ass dying is their goal.
Repeat after me, friends: conservatism is a death cult
This is Trump's admin calling you a "useless eater". I recommend you get familiar with the term.
Do you know who also forcefully employed weakened people in heavy work?
This is exactly their plan. Make your existence so miserable and poor that you have to take any job available, even if it's glorified slavery.
That's capitalism.
Absoeffinlutely!
I’d like to believe the american people would revolt before they willingly walk themselves back into slavery, but then, y’know, gestures broadly at everything…
They honestly believe everybody on Medicaid is "cheating the system". They've bought their own BS.
This the same stupid bitch that suggested we take up raising chickens in the backyards that of course everyone has?
even moron antivaxx loser can't believe anyone could be so fucking stupid
Did he object? Is that because he wants to send autistic to concentration camps "wellness farms"? Maybe he doesn't want his plans messed with and was going to have autistic people pick crops...
Tbf, Lemmy called this as soon as RFK uttered "wellness farms."
RFK wants to open "wellness farms" where people with "mental health" and addiction issues can "raise their own food".
do these people ever believe the shit they say? are they too fucking stupid or do they believe everybody else is that stupid? Seems like some shit only god fearing could say with some semblance of a straight face, which does require baseline ignorance
blows my mind that real adults will put on makeup and an outfit then go on record saying something this profoundly fucking hilarious and out of touch
Approaching these people is so strange because it could either be: pure evilness, propaganda at work, unadulterated ignorance, or some gross mix that won't be respected all the same
