USA Today columnist Rex Huppke on the brilliant plan from the Malignant Fascist's regime on where those "able bodied" people on Medicaid being told to work can find jobs:
"The Trump administration is cutting $1 trillion from Medicaid over the next decade while ruthlessly deporting hardworking migrants and decimating America’s agricultural workforce, but don’t worry. Republicans have a sensible plan: Your grandma is going to have to work the fields.
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins presented her farm-work-for-Medicaid-coverage plan on July 8, Tuesday, saying:
'There will be no amnesty. The mass deportations continue, but in a strategic way, and we move the workforce toward automation and 100% American participation, which, again, with 34 million people, able-bodied adults on Medicaid, we should be able to do that fairly quickly.'
The Los Angeles Times quoted Ventura County citrus and avocado farmer Helen McGrath responding to Rollins’ idea: 'I can confidently say that most farmers in the country either laughed out loud or were just deflated by those comments. It just shows how uninformed and out of touch some of these officials are with what food production looks like in this country.'” (our emphasis)
Again, the sole qualification for a high level position in the MF's regime is blind loyalty to the Dear Leader. No matter how cruel, nonsensical, counter productive or unAmerican, what he wants must be implemented, and the more you can anticipate his reckless, fascistic whims in advance and act on them, the better.
(photo: "C'mon Gramps, you've got another 8 hours to go." Geriatricsforcaregivers.net)
🤨 How 'bout my 94 y.o. Grammy? If she can still bake cookies, by heaven she can wield a hammer and hang drywall! Those construction jobs are also decimated! 🍪🔨
ReplyDeleteWife's grandmother was legally blind, but damn her cookies were good. No reason she couldn't have gotten off her duff and felt around to squeeze tomatoes in the field to assure ripe for picking.
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