{"id":66674,"date":"2025-07-08T14:24:22","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T21:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=66674"},"modified":"2025-07-08T14:24:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T21:24:22","slug":"uncaring-ignorance-about-jobs-and-medicaid-is-a-sickening-requirement-to-be-in-trumps-cabinet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=66674","title":{"rendered":"Uncaring Ignorance About Jobs and Medicaid is a Sickening Requirement to Be in Trump&#8217;s Cabinet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The lasting legacy of Donald Trump is going to be filled with examples of his craving to reign as an anti-democratic autocrat, and his insatiable thirst for enriching himself with sleazy scams. He will be forever remembered as the Grifter-in-Chief who sought the worshipful adoration of his small but noisy cabal of cult followers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Uncaring Ignorance About Jobs and Medicaid is a Sickening Requirement to Be in Trump's Cabinet%0D&#038;url=https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=66674\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to post this article on Twitter<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/intent\/compose?text=Uncaring Ignorance About Jobs and Medicaid is a Sickening Requirement to Be in Trump's Cabinet%20https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=66674\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to post on Bluesky<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-hand.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34717\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In addition to his acute case of malignant narcissism, Trump will also go down in history as the American <em>&#8220;leader&#8221;<\/em> who cherished the deliberate avoidance of intellect, declaring literally that he <em>&#8220;loves the poorly educated.&#8221;<\/em> Of course he does. Who else would vote for him? His tenure is a testament to infantile turpitude and the deranged, devolutionary dumbing down of academics in pursuit of a submissive society.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE THIS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=66384\" target=\"_blank\">WHO\u2019S DERANGED? Trump on Biden Clones, Transgender Mice, Autopens, and His Own Mental Anguish<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a timely demonstration of Trump&#8217;s aversion to education, his Secretary of Agriculture, Brooke Rollins held a press conference to provide affirmation of Trump&#8217;s descent into Idiocracy. Responding to inquiries about how the United States will handle the consequences of Trump&#8217;s mass deportation agenda, and his <em>&#8220;Big Ugly Bill&#8221;<\/em> that slashes the budget for Medicaid, Rollins said that&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;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 adults on Medicaid we should be able to do fairly quickly.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3lthhwchvtw2h\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreics5yxoobsdekz4tfrnkksfb3bpx6faaomfnjeecityayevrmrvre\">\n<p lang=\"en\">Brooke Rollins on farm laborers: &#34;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.&#34;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc?ref_src=embed\">Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc\/post\/3lthhwchvtw2h?ref_src=embed\">2025-07-08T14:06:46.629Z<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.bsky.app\/static\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a lot of witlessness to unpack in that brief commentary. Let&#8217;s begin with Rollins&#8217; reference to continuing mass deportations in a <em>&#8220;strategic way.&#8221;<\/em> By which she means enforcing it only in Democratic cities and states. She then moved on to her intention to replace farm laborers with automation. Although she doesn&#8217;t explain how she would automate the harvesting of agricultural crops, or why it has never been done before. Neither does she explain how the labor force would be <em>&#8220;100% American&#8221;<\/em> in this new type of harvesting that is done by machines.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the most preposterous part of Rollins&#8217; remarks was what she had to say about Medicaid. She believes that there are <em>&#8220;34 million able-bodied adults&#8221;<\/em> who can be immediately recruited to staff the farms of the nation. She is referring to the number of people currently on Medicaid who are classified as <em>&#8220;able-bodied.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What Rollins doesn&#8217;t seen to understand is that many able-bodied people receive Medicaid who are not available to work. According to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/articles\/any-way-you-look-at-it-you-lose-medicaid-work-requirements-will-either-fall-short-of-anticipating-savings-or-harm-vulnerable-beneficiaries\/\" target=\"_blank\">an analysis by the Brookings Institute<\/a><\/strong>, Medicaid recipients who would be described as <em>&#8220;able-bodied&#8221;<\/em> are mostly those who are caregivers to dependent children, those with disabling mental health conditions, full time students, and those already working 80+ hours per month.<\/p>\n<p>Disenrolling those recipients from Medicaid would result in severe hardships for them and their families, and would save very little money. Does the Trump administration really want the parents of minor children, and those who are caregivers to seniors or other disabled family members, and those with mental health disabilities, to be forced to relocate to farming communities and harvest fruits and vegetables?<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the agricultural work that Rollins thinks will be undertaken by those she would strip of Medicaid coverage generally does not provide health insurance to their employees. Consequently, any medical treatment required would not be be paid for, resulting in people not getting necessary care. It would also result in the hospitals providing such care incurring costs that they could not bear and would subsequently shut down, denying care to everyone else that used their services.<\/p>\n<p>The bottom line is that Rollins and Trump are advocating an inhumane policy that would cause profound harm, while saving very little federal funds. The people that the Trump regime is targeting are not freeloaders trying to sponge of the government. They are not slackers playing video games in their mom&#8217;s basement. They are honest Americans struggling to make ends meet and to keep themselves and their families healthy.<\/p>\n<p>For some reason, the Trump Republicans are offended by the lesser advantaged of us and thinks that they should be punished and made to suffer more, in order to afford tax breaks for corporations and the wealthy. Very Christian of them, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED STORIES:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=66640\" target=\"_blank\">Trump Plans a UFC Fight at the White House to Bring it More of that Trump Class and Dignity<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=66602\" target=\"_blank\">Trump Goes Bonkers Ranting that Democrats Are \u2018Evil, Nasty People Who Hate Our Country\u2019<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=66561\" target=\"_blank\">Trump Lashes Out at Democratic Women of Color as \u2018Stupid\u2019 Because They Dare to Defy Dear Leader<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Be sure to visit and follow News Corpse<br \/>\non <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NewsCorpse\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/newscorpse.bsky.social\" target=\"_blank\">Bluesky<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.net\/@newscorpse\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Threads<\/a>.<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>And check out my books on Amazon:<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2aOYFpM\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Fox Nation vs. Reality:<br \/>\nThe Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Thanks so much for your support.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lasting legacy of Donald Trump is going to be filled with examples of his craving to reign as an anti-democratic autocrat, and his insatiable thirst for enriching himself with sleazy scams. He will be forever remembered as the Grifter-in-Chief who sought the worshipful adoration of his small but noisy cabal of cult followers. 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