Lol. This is how the Trump administration wants to make America great again:
Americans fear that they will lose their Medicaid coverage thanks to the massive cuts Republicans made to the program when passing President Donald Trump’s “One Big, Beautiful Bill.” Luckily, the Trump administration came up with a new and novel way for people to earn their health insurance coverage back.
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said that Americans can work the fields to replace the thousands of immigrant farmworkers the Trump administration is deporting—leaving farms desperate for labor.
“We move the workforce toward automation and 100% American participation, which again with 34 million people, able-bodied on Medicaid, we should be able to do fairly quickly,” Rollins said Tuesday at a news conference at the Department of Agriculture.
There are not 34 million “able bodied” people on Medicaid who will be available to pick the strawberries, much less will they be willing to do it. What are they going to do, send the masked secret police into the cities to abduct these citizens and send them out to the farms once they’ve deported all the immigrants? (That’s assuming they actually exist, which they don’t. This myth of the young male scamming Medicaid for that sweet, free health care while they sit home playing their video games is … uhm …. incorrect)
They keep insisting that there are millions and millions of Americans who are champing at the bit to work in meatpacking plants and lettuce fields if only we can get rid of the “illegals” who are stealing those precious jobs and it’s so stupid it makes my head hurt. But I guess they truly believe that turning back the clock to a time when America was an agrarian society or, at best, relive the industrial revolution with everyone but the very rich working in sweat shops or as servants is what the American Dream is all about. For us peasants anyway.