Most Medicaid recipients live in cities and do not have farms nearby.
“Recruit” them into a new Civilian Conservation Corps.
It worked for FDR.
She’s a donor shill piece of work all around. She says they’re won’t be an amnesty, then she describes their intended amnesty.
Reportedly MAHA had been promised Massie, a great advocate for small farmers, as the Sec of Agriculture. Instead, we’ve got this sell-out-the-country hag.
I support this.
But this is going to be spun as — telling people on Medicaid to go out into the fields and pick cotton. It will be seen as an effort to re-impose slavery.
Low risk prisoners instead. Give them a day off their sentence for each day they work.
On the Many Loves of Dobie Gillis tv series, the lazy beatnik Maynard G. Krebs (later famous Gilligan star Bob Denver) would always shout out in fear
“Work!?”
when someone mentioned his getting a job.
Pastures of Plenty
by Woody Guthrie
It’s a mighty hard row that my poor hands have hoed
My poor feet have traveled a hot dusty road
Out of your Dust Bowl and Westward we rolled
And your deserts were hot and your mountains were cold.
I worked in your orchards of peaches and prunes
I slept on the ground in the light of the moon
On the edge of the city you’ll see us and then
We come with the dust and we go with the wind
California, Arizona, I harvest your crops
Well its North up to Oregon to gather your hops
Dig the beets from your ground, cut the grapes from your vine
To set on your table your light sparkling wine.
It’s always we rambled, that river and I
All along your green valley, I will work till I die
My land I’ll defend with my life if it be
Cause my pastures of plenty must always be free.
Country version by Lester Flaggs & Earl Scruggs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y9ICZhbBtQ
I support the idea, but I suspect very few will actually be required to work. Most will get some sort of medical waiver.
It’s still good though if we can get some of the fraudulent payments off the books.
Gleaning.
It’s Biblical.
Amnesty - no. Visas for guest workers in critical industries such as agriculture? Yes.
They can do SOMETHING.
Make them work.
Many Medicaid recipients have jobs. Just a few years ago, Dems complained that WalMart and many other places were being subsidized by the government because the employers could pay less and not offer benefits such as insurance. The rates they were paying and the hours alloted left the employees eligible for government aid.
Sheesh! I even remember when it came out that a lot of married enlisted personnel were on welfare, back in the 1970s.
Here comes the SLAVERY accusations.
What about those who are able in body but too mentally challenged or attitude-ridden to work for anyone? When they get sick, are we just going to let them die in their mothers’ basements for want of insurance? Better to institutionalize them and try to fix them from there.
Fine idea but the farmers would really suffer since those drafted into serving would NOT turn in a good day’s work...