Tuesday, July 8, 2025

None Dare Call It Slavery

Ship all the city dwellers to the country & put them to work picking crops? These fools are either absolutely unaware of the past, or they're deliberately taking a page or two from Chairman Mao's Little Red Book. How is this supposed to work? Are they planning (Ha! Planning! It is to laugh.) to put middle-class Americans from cities & suburbs in rotting dormitories & rusting trailers w/ bedbug-filled straw mattresses? Farmworker wages are better than no wages at all, right?
Marcia Brown / Politico:
Ag secretary says able-bodied Medicaid recipients should replace immigrant farm workforce  —  Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said millions of adult Medicaid participants who will face stricter work requirements under the GOP megabill should replace foreign farm workers deported under … 
Leah Douglas / Reuters:   US farm secretary says ‘no amnesty’ for farmworkers from deportation Elizabeth Crisp / The Hill:
Rollins suggests Medicaid recipients can replace deported farmworkers Sarah K. Burris / Raw Story:   Trump official kneecaps his pledge to ‘put farmers in charge’ of migrant workers
Thought this was a free country, & the Deep State couldn't tell you where to work. When's sharecropping coming back?

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