Can't win for losing

 

Brooke Rollins, our Secretary of Agriculture, has a use for all of those scofflaws that we are about to toss off the Medicaid rolls.

They can go pick the crops on the farms that are going unpicked since we declared the present ICE war on illegal immigrants.

Now we tried this in the south a few years ago in Alabama.  

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I remember the video vividly. Might have been this one. A peanut farmer tried to hire white workers to pick his crops.

They barely lasted a day.

I hate to be a pessimist but I don't think this is going to work out real well.  We Americans aren't used to hard work, in fact we have gotten pretty soft. 

And I don't think people have a clear picture regarding just who is utilizing Medicaid at present. Here is a good article  from 2023 that can catch you up to date.

The majority of them are working, 92%, many at multiple jobs that don't provide health benefits.  

64% of those are working at least part time.

12% are caregiving, 10% not working due to illness or disability and 8% have retired or can't find work or for another reason. 

Clearly the great majority are working or trying to work. Now we are about to throw 12 million more Americans off the rolls for the crime of losing at this life game. Punish them for not making the grade, for not winning, for their ineptitude at snatching an ever shrinkening slice of America's pie. We like winners in this country, clearly.

But hey, the rest of them can always pick cotton.

If they get hungry enough.

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It should be noted that most of the Medicaid cuts won't happen or apply until after the midterms. Very crafty.