When I was unemployed and playing video games while waiting for replies, I didn't qualify for any free healthcare and I needed some
I don't know what he's talking about
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When I was unemployed and playing video games while waiting for replies, I didn't qualify for any free healthcare and I needed some
I don't know what he's talking about
Right-wing 101: "we need to destroy social safety net X because the immigrants/criminals/lazy/fraudsters are smooching it from hard-working, honest citizens!"
Translation: we need to take services away from the working class so gazillionaires can have an extra tax break and buy a bigger yacht to put their current yacht on.
I'd love to play some video games, anyone know where I can find some of this free healthcare?
State Medicaid. Just make sure you keep your wage under the limits.
Don't do this... But that's what he means.
Sell drugs or have a hustle on the side and get more money. /S
It's the same game from the street to the big businesses. Big businesses and rich people just make charities and get offshore bank accounts to rape our economy.
I'm not concerned about some young videogamer getting free healthcare. I'm more concerned with the DOGE GOBLIN getting BILLIONS in government contracts to build rockets that blow up spectacularly, wasting a billion dollars with every explosion, just so he can quip "Just a scratch."
That's a billion dollar scratch that could have made a huge difference in thousands of lives.
I'm not worried about American citizens getting health care, I'm worried about Foreign Sociopathic Oligarchs getting BILLIONS in government contracts, paid for by taxes on the working class, while calling those same workers/taxpayers "parasites."
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.
says some rich asshole who probably hasn't done real work a day in his life, likely living off dividends and bribe money
And the healthcare Congress provides.
Anybody who has ever been unfortunate enough to have to apply for any of these healthcare or food stipend programs would know that it's not as easy as the government makes it seem. In fact, the amount of bureaucracy, means testing, and highly restrictive income limitations means that most people don't qualify period and people who do qualify have to spend an inordinate amount of time waiting to hear back from the government to know if they have been accepted or not, all the while hoping and praying they don't get sick and can manage their money long enough to continue feeding themselves.
Case in point, my fiance is out of work right now and actively seeking work. She applied for both MediCAL and SNAP and was denied for MediCAL because she had earned too much already that year to qualify and the SNAP benefits totaled out to $20/month in food stamps, based on historical income, which is insufficient even for the most frugal of individuals to make work. This is for someone currently earning $0/month and being almost entirely supported by me.
After a certain point, it becomes a massive drain on your time and resources that could be spent looking for a job, so you stop bothering with the system altogether because who wants to spend hours doing paperwork and submitting claims just to get enough spare change to buy a bulk bag of rice to feed yourself a struggle meal?
I don't want to hear shit about "handouts" from anybody. My fiance paid her taxes faithfully for years without ever having to rely on the program, so where are her benefits? She has undoubtedly paid more into the system than she will ever extract.
Free healthcare?
The problem is that voters are so damn stupid that someone can make a statement like this without being interrogated.
Or the media will be like "Yeah, that makes sense" and will not push back.
I don't accept the premise that working a job to make someone else rich is axiomatically good.
Many jobs make the world worse. I'd rather someone sit at home and play Tetris than build murder-drones, or work on some sort of AI powered stalking-ad company.
Many of the jobs are just bullshit. Another "AI" company? Another product manager with no real decision making power? A few billion dollars poured into "the metaverse"? Waste of time and resources.
That aside, most jobs make the owners rich while labor gets a few crumbs. You work all day making widgets. The boss pays you $10. They sell your widgets for $1000. That's a bum deal. But there's a thousand desperate people waiting to take your spot, plus union busters eager to betray labor and beat you up. Pay people the real value of their labor, and treat them with respect, and you'd likely get more people working.
Johnson is a heretical, hypocritical, piece of shit. No one should take him seriously. His church should -- wait, he's southern baptist? The "we're going to split off because we want slavery" sect? Not surprising. Those assholes suck.
I'm disabled and can't afford a working computer to play video games, you rich motherfucker.
What free healthcare?
Young men have to jump through the most hoops to get state level health insurance.
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.
Ah yes, young men. That notoriously healthcare obsesses group of individuals that do all they can to drain the system of all its funding. That's the problem.
It's a shame people actually fall for blatant lies like this.
Is this Free Healthcare in the room with us now, you miserable ghoul?
This is just the “violent video games make people violent” argument from the 90s and 00s. Fear mongering at its core.
"These violent games make you violent!" "These cozy games make people lazy!"
Sometimes I think they just complain because it's a fetish for them.
Says the asshole mooching off the gold standard free healthcare given to congressmen.
Another boomer fucking idiot saying idiot fucking boomer shit because idiot fucking boomers voted like boomer fucking idiots.
He's fucking Genx, my generation. I hate every GenXer that sold out. Now that I've gotten that out of my system, remember we are fighting class warfare. Don't let them divide us along generational lines. My good friend is a Boomer and is as liberal as can be. My two coworkers are GenX and both voted for Trump.
Oh god they’ve been shitting on video games since pinball. Get some new lines bro
We have free health care? Coulda fooled me.
Rich people always think they pay for everyone. Wrong.
We are in the same society. A society with no hope is not a stable society.
Healthcare is just a way to coerce the working class to produce value for the wealthy. That is the real reason why there is no universal healthcare in America.
claims mouthpiece of the medical insurance industry
FTFY
I can't wait to pay for groceries with my free healthcare.
Ah, yes, because I don't need money for rent and food, just healthcare.
What a moron.
LOL, Says the guy mooching off all of us for free healthcare and a paycheck.
First they came for the gamers, and I did not speak out, because I was busy hitting a sick 360° quickscope on Angel City.
The same old "welfare queen" argument again.
I'd be interested to know how I can pay my electricity bill with my free healthcare. Also I need to go to the supermarket today; how do I convert free healthcare into a trolleyful of food?
I only play computer games after I get home from working hard all day.
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.
Someone so disconnected with reality should not represent anyone.
What free healthcare?
Magats shit on women... Still get women votes... Shit in soliders still get soldiers votes... Shit on Mexicans.... Still get Mexican votes... Shit on men...still get men votes...
I don't know who this says more about... The voting group or Democrats that can't win despite this shit.
How's your son's dick today, Mike Johnson? You have the app that tells you, so if you wouldn't mind...
Can these monsters please just fuck off!
Y'all got free healthcare?
Where is this free healthcare? Because I'm paying out the ass for my very minimal coverage.