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
    225·
    9 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.

    • Fermion@feddit.nlEnglish
      32·
      9 months ago

      Is he mad that young adults can stay on their parents’ health plan until age 26?

  • TooManyFoods@lemmy.worldEnglish
    76·
    9 months ago

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

    • Thrillhouse@lemmy.worldEnglish
      22·
      9 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.

  • PanArab@lemm.eeEnglish
    50·
    9 months ago

    free healthcare

    does he think everyone in the US gets the same healthcare that congresspeople get?

  • snekerpimp@lemmy.worldEnglish
    50·
    9 months ago

    Where are they getting the money for the games? Those are expensive as shit, I’m still making do with games I bought decades ago because I can’t afford new ones.

    How are they eating? Food is fucking expensive, are they getting free food as well?

    How are they paying rent? Have to have a roof over your head and electricity in your walls to play video games all day.

    This mother fucker thinks all guys are like his son, lazy mother fuckers mooching off their parents. What a dumb, ignorant moron.

    • captainlezbian@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      9 months ago

      I think he might be speaking about 16 year old boys. He seems mad that they’re children instead of working father’s.

  • Jaysyn@lemmy.worldEnglish
    39·
    9 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.

    • whotookkarl@lemmy.worldEnglish
      17·
      9 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
      14·
      9 months ago

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

  • PineRune@lemmy.worldEnglish
    33·
    9 months ago

    Free healthcare doesn’t pay rent or utilities. I would love to stay at home and play video games regardless of my healthcare status, but I simply couldn’t afford to.

  • Bakkoda@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    29·
    9 months ago

    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.

      • Coelacanth@feddit.nuEnglish
        5·
        9 months ago

        Didn’t you know sex is bad? It’s absolutely reprehensible and the only allowable exception is for the purposes of procreation, where you are allowed only to use the missionary position and your lawfully wedded wife is to be completely obscured by a blanket covering her entire body apart from a small hole in her crotch area. You can not look down or touch her body with your hands at any point, you should be reciting prayer the entire time and preferably keep one hand on the Bible during the whole process.

        All other ways to engage with sexual acts and sexuality are unnatural, ungodly and frankly disgusting.

  • ThrowawayOnLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    28·
    9 months ago

    Sure. Let’s just pretend video games are free. And so is healthcare. Also, how much health care does he think young people use? This is a stupid argument.