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4. Have they thought this through?

Reply to ihaveaquestion (Original post)

Tue Jul 8, 2025, 12:21 PM

Jul 8

Obviously not. In the US farms are largely concentrated in rural areas, people on Medicaid are largely concentrated in urban areas (yeah, there are exceptions). How are the people from the urban areas going to get to the rural areas to do the field work? Commute? Impractical if the designated workers are in Chicago and the strawberries need to be picked in California. Build housing nearby for the people coming in to work the fields? That's sounding a mite socialist. Have the workers just move around to where the work is? We tried that in the 1930s and later.

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Trump's agriculture head expects '34M able-bodied on Medicaid' to do farm work [View all] ihaveaquestion Jul 8 OP

GOPers have ALWAYS lived in a fantasy world. No wonder they can't govern. nt eppur_se_muova Jul 8 #1

That's almost half of everyone on Medicaid. C_U_L8R Jul 8 #2

They just don't understand Nigrum Cattus Jul 8 #3

Have they thought this through? Retrograde Jul 8 #4

That is what the concentration camps are for obamanut2012 Jul 8 #7

Farm buses at nursing homes and towns, 5 am pickup bucolic_frolic Jul 8 #5

Is she totally incompetent or just basically stupid? zeusdogmom Jul 8 #6

How much hard manual work has he and his wealthy friends ever done just to make a living? Ping Tung Jul 8 #8

64% of Medicaid recipients are already working Ritabert Jul 8 #9

I expect that his fantasy will not play out. MineralMan Jul 8 #10

That person needs to read up on the Russian Revolution. MineralMan Jul 8 #11

She doesn't seem to realize John Farmer Jul 8 #12

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