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yeah I reckon we're about to see, after the deportations of immigrants and the sudden labor shortage caused by it, a lot of other Americans who are also considered "undesirables" being voluntold to get busy pickin' or get busy dying. We already force our prisoners to do slave labor, and you know what a hate-boner Republicans have for prisoners -- how do you think that stacks up against their hate boner for trans people? gay people? Or, why, just anyone who doesn't "vote correctly"?
I heard, there was a name for such a idea
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What was it again?
☝🏻😃ah!
Concentration camps
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Welfare recipients who have the ability to work will be doing it, and I support this. If you don't want to pick, find a job.
Most welfare recipients do already work. You have to be disabled to be on welfare and not working.
What about the overwhelming majority if welfare recipients who do not live near where food is farmed?
Should we never permit people on welfare to have the chance to improve their lot in life because having to do farm labor all day will stop most from being able to do anything else.
Nah there will be jobs that need done in other cities, but the west and south have higher populations of ppl on welfare and homelessness due to the warmer weather. If they have been on welfare for a year and haven't found a job, why not put them to work? This whole giving everyone shit for free gets abused and causes us who work MORE money and more work. There should be limits. It's reasonable.
Because again most do not live anywhere near these fields. Why should welfare recipients be slaves or less well paid not actual employees to for-profit companies?
You are proposing a horrible solution. This is not going to fix any issue and will cause so many more problems
Great. I have plenty of money and hate contributing to society in any meaningful manner -- I consume only. I'll manage the crop pickers from my phone, though. When do you start?
Lol I work in tech. You are barking up the wrong tree pleb.
Which means what in your mind? It’s not as if many techbros are all that useful or cannot be immediately replaced.
I've already seen some of the Fox crowd calling for periods of national service, arguing that a year of "real work" would be good for today's lazy, screen-addicted youth. I can't see them getting an actual draft reinstated, but I can definitely see them making federal student loans contingent on "National Service." That would have the added benefit of making old people and rich people functionally exempt.
Only for the young people of course, them republican boomers already put in a honest days work. Uphill both ways.
Why can’t you see them getting the draft reinstated?
Rich donors would want their kids exempted.
That was the case before, see “Fortunate son” the song.
I think you meant, "the round up of suspected immigrants (but we're not real careful about that), followed by the simultaneous difficulties of returning them to their homelands and national labor shortages; then the increasing "tax burden" of feeding and housing the immigrants with the continuing labor shortage leading to the "obvious and natural solution" of having the people awaiting deportation work in those understaffed jobs.
Which, if you know any history, is how Germany ended up with concentration camps.
yeah I just figured I'd prattled on long enough. I've watched enough documentaries on WWII and the holocaust to know how it started, and I'm fucking terrified.
There already looking at land Texas offered them.