able-bodied

"PNG has an oversupply of able-bodied citizens who are willing to do this kind of work," he said, adding many people would be attracted by the prospects of living in Australia and possibly gaining citizenship.

He also argued that the tax credits would not help address what he says are major problems with healthcare policy, including "illegal aliens and able-bodied young men without dependents" using Medicaid.

Mehmet Oz, who heads Medicare and Medicaid, asserted on Fox News in July that “Today the average able-bodied person on Medicaid who doesn’t work, they watch 6.1 hours of television or just hang out.”

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins has suggested that “able-bodied adults on Medicaid” could serve as crop pickers instead of immigrants, proposing that existing welfare recipients could fill agricultural labor gaps.

In South Korea, all able-bodied men are required to serve 18 months of military service, although rare exceptions are made - and deferments are sometimes granted.