To justify Medicaid cuts, House Speaker Mike Johnson says the healthcare program leads to "able-bodied young men" playing videogames instead of working.
  • Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    10·
    54 minutes ago

    The argument is utterly stupid.

    Ignoring that it is building on a fantasy reality for the moment. Even if you had free healthcare, and if only the financial costs of survival motivated people to get jobs, then the other costs of living, like for food and shelter, would still provide that motivation.

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    27·
    2 hours ago

    The problem is that voters are so damn stupid that someone can make a statement like this without being interrogated.

  • TheObviousSolution@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    41 minutes ago

    So basically, they are mooching off of free healthcare - by performing by one of the most risk free activities that is almost going to guarantee they won’t need healthcare in the first place?

    MAGA tactic:

    Take negative stereotype, say it is preventing a desirable goal from being reached, then say it is because of what you are actually trying to cut. Doesn’t matter if they barely have any real relation to each other.

  • postmateDumbass@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    39 minutes ago

    Young men have no idea what health care is, nor do they care.

    They are healthy and heal fast.

    They are the ones who traditionally pay in and dont take out.

    • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      2 minutes ago

      As someone who is 25 I must agree, not only do I not give a damn I actively welcome death. Shitty fucken eyesight not withstanding, I think there’s thinner ballistic glass

  • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
    14·
    3 hours ago

    Yes, that’s why they’re at home all day, and ignoring all the well paid jobs out there with free healthcare that I’m sure they’d get if they just went door to door with a résumé like these ghouls pretend they did in the 1950s.

  • rozodru@lemmy.worldEnglish
    552·
    5 hours ago

    working where exactly? working on a farm that will pay you minimum wage, if that? oh OH I know working in the tech sector where it’s now and has been for the past couple years an absolute nightmare to find a job in.

    There are NO jobs out there that will pay for the current cost of living and the ones that COULD aren’t hiring, and if anything, are laying people off. And yeah, these unemployed young men are TOTALLY playing videogames that now cost $80 a pop paid via a job they don’t have.