Here's the plan - Americans on Medicaid can pick the crops (X & text)

[underpants]

Brooke Rollins on farm laborers: "There will be no amnesty. The mass deportations continue, but in a strategic way. And we move the workforce toward automation and 100% American participation, which with 34 million able-bodied on Medicaid we should be able to do fairly quickly."

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[Irish_Dem]

1. This has been the plan all along. Medicaid and medicare recipients do immigrant labor.

[Hugin]

4. 34 Million unicorns...

Yeah, it’s a fantasy of theirs. Like Reagan’s welfare queens.

There’s a Medicaid Medicare fraudster under every bed until they aren’t.

[Moostache]

2. The reply within is CRASS and RUDE - please be aware...

FUCK THAT GODDAMN CUNT. FUCK HER AND ANYONE THAT THINKS LIKE THAT TOO.

I hope she dies slowly, in agony and alone when her family hates her for her illness bankrupting them.
I hope that there is universal Karma and that she herself finds needs unmet, neighbors filled with bile and hate and is handed a fucking sycthe and told to get to harvesting.

"(S)he who does not work shall not eat", right you heartless fucking bitch that deserves true evil and suffering just to bring the scales of justice back to even...

[markodochartaigh]

3. This leaves the young

TikTok generation who couldn’t vote for Joe or Kamala to do construction and work the slaughterhouses! Sounds like a plan!


/s

[patricia92243]

5. I assumed if you were on Medicaid that you were not "able-bodied." n/t

[Rebl2]

12. Not

Necessarily. My 90+ year old parents that had dementia couldn’t work of course. I have read many times over the last several months most people on Medicaid DO work. I had a niece many years ago on Medicaid and she worked.

[Silent Type]

14. +1. The primary target of these MFers appears those covered by the Medicaid expansion. They believe those are

most likely to be able to work more, volunteer, etc. Those disabled, in facilities, frail, children, students, etc., are less likely to get hurt. But damn the trump admin scaring people like this is just unacceptable.

Other than trump and his henchmen, the big problem is our healthcare system where we spend forever bickering about whether some poor guy should be covered by Medicaid, VA, private insurance, ACA, etc., rather than just covering everyone.

We really need some kind of universal coverage even if it's not exactly perfect.

[karynnj]

20. I have not seen statistics, but I suspect the majority

of people who are covered by Medicaid expansion ARE working. Why? There income has to exceed the original Medicaid level. These are likely lower income to lower middle class people whose employers don't offer affordable health insurance.

People over 65 would be Medicare or both if their income is low enough. I don't know the impact on qualifying for both. Additionally, there are older people in nursing homes on Medicaid as Medicare does not cover long term care. None of the latter can remotely be called able bodied.

I suspect that the work requirement will have far less impact than any change to covering nursing homes or the impact on people who currently are on Medicaid through Medicaid expansion.

[Silent Type]

21. Except I have not found direct cuts to nursing homes in bill. Also, you are right about most are employed in expansion,

that's why I don't think the numbers of disenrolled projected by CBO will be reached. But don't know that for a fact.

I do know, that there is no fine to trump or GOPers if they don't meet their target cuts in Medicaid. Mainly because no one will know about that for 5, maybe 10 years.

Don't support any cuts, but how CMS apportions any cuts will determine how bad it will be. And that means henchmen Kennedy, Oz, etc.

[odins folly]

6. Cuz nuthin say 'murica

Like seeing a bunch of geriatric people working the fields under a hot sun……

I remember reading about the industrial revolution from the worker perspective. Jobs were scarce, and pay was shitty, with low wages. If the owner wanted more profit, the simply had the foreman go to the floor and tell the workers they were going to have their pay cut. If you complained, you were fired. If you threatened to complain you were told you were expendable because there were 100 people willing to take your job outside the gates every morning.

Not rich, fuck you, sucks to be you….

[haele]

7. What does he mean - 10 million able bodied on Medicaid don't already have jobs?

Or maybe he's talking about a mix of students, part time workers, artists/business owners, and caretakers?
Oh, I understand - he's talking about the apocryphal millions of single parent welfare queens, homeless lay-abouts and hustlers, and the basement-dwelling video-game playing adult children of retirees...those people...

[WhiteTara]

8. I thought that was being reserved for

overweight teens. Part of the slimming program to work the fields from early morning to dark.

[Passages]

9. She could not be more vile.

Not humanly possible.

[AllaN01Bear]

10. see my prior post on this subject.

some of us have hidden dissabilites . so does that make us able bodied ?
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1016&pid=408431

[AllaN01Bear]

11. hem. there are lot of ppl in my building who are in wheel chairs . cant see . etc. able bodied and im retired lady .

leave me alone.

[republianmushroom]

13. I wouldn't bet on that Rollins.

[Arazi]

15. Stalin crossed with Mao

This is a “great leap forward” all over again…

[kerouac2]

16. Full time at federal min wage is about 15k year

15k for full time work.

I think most medicaid income max requirements are about 20k for single up to like 43k for family of 4. Depends on the state.

So two parents working full time minimum wage jobs would be on Medicaid, among other programs, in probably every state.

[sinkingfeeling]

17. Please let me know the farm yield numbers when farming is 100% American participation. Has Brooke ever spent time

on a farm?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

18. Trump's agriculture head expects '34M able-bodied on Medicaid' to do farm work

These people are nuts

This is how far out of touch these people are ....

Trump's agriculture head expects '34M able-bodied on Medicaid' to do farm work www.rawstory.com/brooke-rolli...

— 🦋❄️🍁Baron🍁❄️🦋 (@baron333.bsky.social) 2025-07-08T15:25:37.619Z

https://www.rawstory.com/brooke-rollins-medicaid-farm-workers/

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins argued that 34 million "able-bodied adults" who are at risk of losing their Medicaid benefits should be expected to take the jobs of migrants on farms.

During a Tuesday press conference, Rollins was asked about President Donald Trump's pledge to give farmers a "pass" when it came to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids.

"There will be no amnesty," Rollins insisted. "The mass deportations continue, but in a strategic way. And we move the workforce towards automation and 100% American participation, which again, with 34 million people, able-bodied adults on Medicaid, we should be able to do that fairly quickly."

[LetMyPeopleVote]

19. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins says that "able bodied" Medicaid recipients will replace the farmworkers

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