Is Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins brilliant ... or what?

A gaggle of self-righteous multimillionaires is now in charge of America’s poverty agencies and policies, and they’ve been flaunting their deeply held ignorance about poor families — almost none of whom they actually know. Consider the national embarrassment of Brooke Rollins, a patrician ideologue, who is President Donald Trump’s plutocratic Secretary of Agriculture. Besides promoting a corporatized food and farm system, Rollins is advocating a program of back-to-the-future peonage for poor people. “We have way too many people that are taking government program that are able to work,” she snorts. Bad grammar aside, she falsely asserts that “34 million able-bodied...

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