• spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    31 minutes ago

    "No one has talked about cutting one benefit in Medicaid to anyone who’s duly owed—what we’ve talked about is returning work requirements, so, for example, you don’t have able-bodied young men on a program that’s designed for single mothers and the elderly and disabled. They’re draining resources from people,” said House Speaker Mike Johnson last week.

    ‘Get fucked poors, sucks to suck when working full time still keeps you below the poverty line. Can’t afford to pay for you lazy fucks to see a doctor when we’ve got rich people who need the money more’

  • shorap@lemm.ee
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    What country is he talking about? Cuz it sure as shit ain’t this one

  • Christian@lemmy.ml
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    Mike Johnson says the healthcare program leads to “able-bodied young men” playing videogames instead of working

    Everyone else has already pointed out the obvious point that free healthcare does not exist here, but you’ve at least gotta give it to him that this is a reasonable conclusion to draw given that “able-bodied young men” would surely be the least likely among us to get by without access to healthcare.

  • kreskin@lemmy.world
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    Pretty rich coming from a guy who lets trump take every power congress is supposed to hold. WTF does he even do at work? If we stopped paying him, would anything at all happen? Every republican seems like a whiny crybullying grifter to me.

  • Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works
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    The amount of dirty looks I got today casually playing slay the spire on my steam deck as a 41 year old man in the waiting room of a medical facility was pretty impressive.

  • Theres nowhere in the country that has legitimate free healthcare, and only a small handful of states that have healthcare for those below the poverty line.

    Where are these supposed young people just living it up off free healthcare?

  • ellypony@lemmy.world
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    My brother I am going to find every outlet of escapism possible to cope with the reality that your generation had a massive part in creating. Sorry 💅

  • OBJECTION!@lemmy.ml
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    Putting aside the, “Everyone but an idiot knows the poor must be kept poor, or they will never be productive” logic, it’s also just dumb as shit to claim that “able-bodied young men” are going to be super motivated to get off the couch for the sake of health insurance - not even real healthcare, we’re talking about paying hundreds of dollars a month so that if you get sick you can “only” be saddled with a very high deductible.

    I fucking hate these people’s guts. Something something Luigi’s Mansion.

  • WraithGear@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    He knows this is false. It’s bait, that even i see this time. There really is nothing to see here

  • SabinStargem@lemmy.today
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    I would prefer to work a job than to grind in a videogame. Unfortunately, Americans live in a nation where bad working conditions, low pay, heavy competition, instability, and ghost jobs makes job seeking unpalatable.

    American capitalism is a cancer.

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        True. Even the Nordic Model nations are backsliding from what I hear. It is why I think that we need to try an wholly artificial economic system, with rules and principles. Similar to a Constitution’s framework, but focused on providing for the wellbeing of all citizens.