Gonna go out on a limb and say, if you think working on a farm is a good choice for sick folks then you’ve never worked on a farm.
Well, it clearly will do good to any sick person. You get sun, fresh air, and according to my experience in stardew valley, it’s even fun!
I’m gonna say his pasty white ass has never worked a day in his life.
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Counter proposal: Politicians should work on farms. Most of them would work for real for the first time in their lives.
2/3’s of those on Medicaid do work, they just aren’t paid enough or given enough hours to get off Medicaid - and this is often a deliberate choice by employers to avoid having to pay benefits; they’d much rather have the taxpayer subsidize the corporation.
Most of the other third aren’t working due to illness, being in school, or because they’re taking care of other people, all of which are currently allowed.
You want to lower Medicaid and food stamps enrollment? For every employee a company has on Medicaid, food stamps, or other public assistance, the company has to pay that amount plus 10% as a penalty to the government. And if someone is working multiple jobs, then each if the employers has to pay in the full amount of assistance they’re getting. If you can’t afford to be in business without the government subsidizing your company, maybe your company shouldn’t exist.
Do a phased-in approach, hitting the companies with the highest number of subsidized employees (looking at you, Walmart and similar) first, then going for companies with lower numbers as time passes. Oh, and none of this bullshit like they pulled during the pandemic, where McDonald’s suddenly counted as a “small business” because they’re mostly franchises.
Start there with getting people off public assistance, then get back to me about sending people to work on farms.
Heartless bitch devoid of any redeemable quality.
Thats true of republicans in general but this one in particular is a good example of all the others.
Just FYI, this is one of the main end goals. You either be a good little corporate slave that can be used for profit OR you become a manual labor slave. Need healthcare or food? Into the camps with you. You won’t actually make ‘money’ so you’ll never be able to get out, but they’ll make sure your not allowed to die if you can still toil.
‘Mental illness’, homeless/poors, dissidents, employed people who want better working conditions and pay. All of that will get you a trip to the ‘labor camps’
Sick should rest.
Everyone already knows this.
Yeah, have the sick people work right at the root of the food supply. What could go wrong?
They’re bring back slavery.
If they come for me, I’m going to show them what mental illness can do in berserker mode.
I’m nobody’s slave, and I will die on this hill.
I mean, really it never left, it just changed forms. But yes this is more blatent.
*Camps
Violence.
I wish we were seeing this sentiment a lot more outside of Lemmy.
I’m told work makes you free
I mean okay. Get to it rural white folks waiting for your settlement. It’s your time to shine!
