There are heartless, stupid, incompetent bags of soup in Trump's Cabinet, but there might be one lurking in the shadows who outshines them all, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins.
She's basically an incompetent fool who shouldn't be working at an Arby's, let alone at the Department of Agriculture. She doesn't advocate at all for the American farmer, and so far her entire tenure has been to be someone whose goal is to be smiling like a mannequin, nodding in agreement in the background.
But yesterday she opened her mouth and said a DOOZY!
Saying nothing, as ICE Gestapo raids leave the American Agriculture sector in shambles, having run off the undocumented workers who were willing to do the backbreaking work for a substandard wage, with crops now rotting in the fields, and Agriculture processors and dairies struggling to find enough employees to operate, Babbling Brooke offered a suggestion to deal with the farm labor crisis.
She suggested that the people to do the back-breaking, hard manual labor for a pittance would be "34 million adults in the Medicaid program."
That's right! She's suggesting the disabled and seniors on Medicaid get out into the fields and work like a mule...a disabled, elderly mule.
For the record, 64% of Medicaid recipients ALREADY WORK, so she clearly must not be talking about them. If she were, she'd be advocating for forced labor(!!!). The other enrollees are either retired, attending school, managing an illness/disability, or are caregivers, so that must be who she is talking about! Rollins must feel those people have it too easy. It's bad enough to demand stringent work requirements for Medicaid recipients, but it's beyond cruel to suggest they go out into the fields to pick crops because the Administration ran off the people who were willing to do those jobs.
It'd be funny, if it was so damn terrifying.
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