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In reply to the discussion: The Republican campaign to impose work requirements on Medicaid recipients is working as expected. [View all]OldBaldy1701E
(5,128 posts)25. But that is part of their plan...
The corporations and the wealthy in this country have all but set up their information and hiring and everything else online. Then, they all gang up when the discussion of income is concerned and tell me that a computer is a 'luxury'. So, when you make it all but impossible for (certain) people to apply for work, and then berate them because they are not working... well, that seems like part of the 'keep 90% of the population near poverty so there will be a more populated wage slave force' practice. And it is designed to control just who gets to rise above that wage slave pool. But hey, bootstraps and all that...
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The Republican campaign to impose work requirements on Medicaid recipients is working as expected. [View all]
Demovictory9
Mar 2019
OP
K&R. All of those things, like the needing to create an email account, are features and not bugs
ck4829
Mar 2019
#2
The uber rich RepubliCON oligarchs purposely make the whole process complicated, inept and corrupt
Farmer-Rick
Mar 2019
#3
When one is poor, the added expense of a computer is a burden. Not everyone is near a library to
monmouth4
Mar 2019
#4
Or as the woman in the article is working 7 days a week and caretaker for her daughter
csziggy
Apr 2019
#62
+1, computer's are not telephones. Matter of fact give a kid today a turn dial telephone and
uponit7771
Apr 2019
#47
I generally temper my language on here, just because. But....."What a bunch of rotten, greedy,
dameatball
Mar 2019
#14
yes. and she's taking care of a disabled person and toddler. Not so easy to run back and forth
Demovictory9
Mar 2019
#16
in some states, the repubs tried to include rules that impacted whites and blacks differently
Demovictory9
Mar 2019
#20
as I recall, the rules referred to density of population.... so rural folks would be exempt
Demovictory9
Mar 2019
#26
Apparently being poor in this country is a crime, but being a wealthy traitor is admirable ?
Hekate
Mar 2019
#18