Rep. Louis Gohmert, last seen ranting about the scourge of “terror babies” as part of a pitch to end birthright citizenship, has an idea for how to deal with unemployment:
We have people on welfare and I know there’s some that just don’t wanna work, but there’s some that do. How ’bout if instead of the welfare, we give ’em an alternative. We’ll give you so many acres that can provide land where you can live off of it, make a living and we’ll give you seed money to start, but you have to sign an agreement that you’ll never accept welfare again. How ’bout that? We got plenty of land.
Does Gohmert not understand that land costs money? Aside from it being a dumb idea, in what way would this be less expensive?
