Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins on Tuesday seemingly contradicted President Trump’s recent pledge to let immigrant farmworkers remain in the United States if their employers vouch for them. Instead, she put forth an insane scheme in which Medicaid recipients will replace deported farm laborers.
“There will be no amnesty,” Rollins said. “The mass deportations continue, but in a strategic way. And we move the workforce towards automation and 100 percent American participation, which, again, with 34 million … able-bodied adults on Medicaid, we should be able to do that fairly quickly.”
That’s the ticket. Take away their health insurance and then drive them into the cotton fields. We should get some good songs out of it.
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There are quite a few people on Medicaid because they’re disabled. I suspect they can’t pick cotton. Also, a lot of children…
Bonded Labour. Workhouses. Indentured servitude. Chattel Slavery.
And if that doesn’t provide enough labour, we could always raid Africa.
Maybe. But they don’t come much better IMHO than Leadbelly’s (Huddie Ledbetter’s) classic Cotton Fields.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSnuMaA7duo
Oh, thank you for telling us that! I now realize that Creedance Clearwater’s version is a cover. I’ve always wondered why California white boys were singing about cotton fields, but now I know it’s a tribute to Leadbelly.
OB: You are most welcome.
Or just do what the Germans did, rent out concentration camp inmates as slave labour. We’ve allocated the cash to build those camps, so why not?