This person deserves violence

Do they not understand that Medicaid recipients work? Often full time jobs or even multiple.

When will they have time to labor for farmers? Are they quitting their jobs? In that case they will need at least minimum wage, and farm workers get sub minimum wage, so the food system will collapse due to skyrocketing prices.

This is why we can only get immigrants to do the job in the first place.

Tbf, Lemmy called this as soon as RFK uttered "wellness farms."

This was the plan all along. Them, prisoners, abandoned kids, etc.

FARMING IS SKILLED LABOUR. YOU CANNOT JUST REPLACE THOSE DEPORTED FARM WORKERS WITH ANY RANDOM PEOPLE.

I work on a farm in Canada and holy fucking shit, us local people have NOTHING on the temporary workers coming up from Mexico. They are insanely skilled at what they do!

You think they ever miss their humanity?

Oh, her name isn't Marie-Antoinette by chance?

Nobody is cleaning the toilet at your local gas station...how about politicians?

Ahhh I see we’re getting to the “untermensch” phase

Next step is putting them in solent greens

"Aaawww! You need medical help? You want to see a doctor? You need medication? OFF TO THE FIELDS WITH YOU!"

Fascists always have bad ideas.

Because smart people aren't fascists.

Mocked? Only mocked?

This is one of the most abhorrent statements ever made by a politician that wasn’t in a slavery or open racism era.

They are testing the waters for this and worse. This needs to be spotlighted, shamed, and crushed.

GOP: "look, can we just skip to the part where we have slaves 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.

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.

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.

Working the disabled to death in fields is a bold strategy.

Work will set you free

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.

How about we replace her with a turnip. It will definitely do a better job.

The overwhelming majority of Medicaid recipients already have a job, thanks. Some have multiple.

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…

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".

They honestly believe everybody on Medicaid is "cheating the system". They've bought their own BS.

Is her name Marie-Antoinette by chance?

This the same stupid bitch that suggested we take up raising chickens in the backyards that of course everyone has?

Ding ding ding, the village idiot has declared herself.

Of course, we need to make the asocial and undesirable ‘work-shy’ elements of society contribute their fair share to the fatherland’s struggle, the great leader has spoken! /s

The concentration camps didn’t begin as a policy of industrialized state murder, but grew out deliberate policy decisions that viewed people as problems that needed ‘correcting’ or eliminating, instead of viewing people as individuals. And we are seeing the same here today:

• Red triangles marked “political prisoners… [which] in Auschwitz were, above all, Poles.

• Green triangles marked “criminal”, imprisoned as a direct consequence of committing a forbidden act, or after release from prison in cases where the criminal police regarded the sentence imposed by the court as too lenient.

• Black triangles marked “asocial” prisoners, imprisoned in theory for vagrancy or prostitution, but in fact for a wide range of other deeds or behaviors, loosely and arbitrarily interpreted by the police. The Roma in the Birkenau “Gypsy camp” were classified as asocial.

• Purple triangles marked prisoners imprisoned for belonging to the Jehovah’s Witnesses, regarded as enemies of the state because of their pacifistic beliefs.

• Pink triangles marked homosexual prisoners, in practice exclusively German, who were imprisoned on the basis of §175 of the German criminal code.

Ah yes, my elderly mother who has a tube coming out of her kidney because they had to remove her bladder will surely be a good replacement for someone well acclimatized for working outside, doing lots of physical labor. Sure. 🙄

Finally, they're unrolling their new slavery initiative. This will really complement the prison slave labor they're already using.

Oh yay, let's send all those wheelchair bound people into a dirt field to pick your cabbage.