To justify Medicaid cuts, House Speaker Mike Johnson says the healthcare program leads to "able-bodied young men" playing videogames instead of working.
  • Thrillhouse@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    People are checking out because the middle class is non-existent. It doesn’t matter how hard you work - the the prospect of getting ahead, owning a home, retirement is out of reach for the vast majority of people.

    People can work hard and stress themselves out or they can check out of the system and achieve largely the same result.

    This is about the failures of late stage capitalism. To claim the issue is free healthcare is gaslighting.

  • Tattorack@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    You gotta be fucking kidding me. What sort of disconnected boomer statement is that!?

    I hate using such terms as “boomer”, but how else am I going to describe this?

    I’m in Denmark, and I can just about get by on one job. I have friends from America struggling to make ends meet, and they’re working TWO jobs!

    So the fuck is this guy talking about!?

  • WraithGear@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

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

  • SpaceScotsman@startrek.websiteEnglish
    1·
    3 months ago

    • No job, grind away the entire waking day with a low paying zero hours contract while filing job applications, No videogames, no relaxation, more stress, costs healthcare providers more

    • No job, spend some of the day working while filing job applications, Yes Videogames, relaxation, lower stress, costs healthcare providers less

    Yet another case where if the politician seriously thought about the issue for just half a minute they’d realise their attitude makes no sense.

    • BurningRiver@beehaw.orgEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      Oh, he knows he’s completely full of shit. If you keep that in mind, his attitude makes perfect sense. Make up whatever bullshit he can to fake a justification to enrich his wealthy daddies.

  • Jaysyn@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    This is rich coming from someone that has literally never worked a days labor in their lives.

    Young men as a cohort have a 90% employment rate.

  • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Hey look, an “elite” with absolutely no concept of how actual reality works, who’s just trying to stir up a base consisting of people with IQs smaller than their shoe size.

    I promise you, if I could stay home all day and play video games by somehow using free healthcare, I’d be doing it.

  • TooManyFoods@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Where are they getting free healthcare from? I’d like it. Oh does Canada have this problem? No? Huh

    • Thrillhouse@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      We still have widespread disengagement in Canada too because the problem isn’t the healthcare.

      The problem is wage suppression and corporate greed.

  • Treczoks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Just a normal US politician. They lost all connection to reality ages ago. Take his ID papers away and let him survive on minimum wage jobs somewhere where nobody knows his sorry face.

    • whotookkarl@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Become a congressperson, they get Medicare for life just like every other citizen should have but don’t because Congress will grant it to themselves but not everyone else. If it’s good enough for them it should be good enough to cover us.

    • Buelldozer@lemmy.todayEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Get elected to the US Congress. They don’t do anything and get 6 figure salaries AND free Healthcare!