“Return the dignity of work to young men who need to be at work instead of playing video games all day.”
House Speaker Mike Johnson defended Republican efforts to attach work requirements to Medicaid, suggesting that young American men are wasting their lives “playing video games all day” instead of working.
Johnson’s remarks came as House Republicans pushed forward a budget framework that would help finance President Donald Trump’s tax cuts, with plans to slash federal spending by trillions. GOP leaders are eyeing $880 billion in reductions to Medicaid, a move critics warn could gut health coverage for millions of low-income Americans.
Separation of church and state seems to have been a pretty good idea despite Mike’s idiocy in that regard as well. Maybe we also need a separation of economy and government too since their continued mismanagement has destabilized bonds, reduced confidence in US markets due to their manipulation, and an ongoing inability to even create a budget.
“separation of government and economy” is precisely what these assholes are angling for. Regulation is very good actually when it’s done on behalf of the people.
The government regulates the credit card industry without holding a monopoly on using credit cards they create, and regulates the airline industry but doesn’t make everyone buy their planes. I’m not arguing against regulation, but I’m also not a fan of monopolies held in public or private sectors.
Stop wasting your life playing vidyagaems. Start wasting your life creating shareholder value.
He should ho share porn with his son again
I dare him to name a video game.
Candy crush?
He does understand that neet gamers are the republican base right?
I’m going to start calling these motherfuckers Don Quixote, they debate strawmen as if they were fighting windmills
I’d wager I get more done by 8 AM than Johnson gets done all day.
Bonus: I don’t wake up until 9 AM.
Ironically, straight out of the communist country playbook. Go to Lao even today, there is a midnight curfew because you shouldn’t be out late, you should be up early to work!
is he watching gay porn, or is he turns to straight porn as a closeted to “stave off his desires”
Possibly mildly unpopular opinion. I’d probably be happy giving up gaming to work more, say 60 hours a week total, if that meant I could fully support my family on my own income and let my wife do something other than work (if she chooses)
I’m not sure what your profession is but I worked a relatively easy job and 60 hours killed me, plus killed any semblance of family life I had. You’re not home, and when you are you’re too exhausted to do anything. With a physically gruelling job I’d imagine it would be even worse l.
Just repeating what the others said, but the 40 hour work week is brutal enough on balancing home and family. When I would pull overtime shifts and work 60-80 hour weeks, only a fool would have been able to look at what was going on and call it reasonable. I’d come home from work, if it was day 6 I would throw the clothes in the wash, crawl into bed, wake up and shower, put on the work uniform, and go back to work.
Food was whatever restaurant or fast food joint a coworker was heading to, and maybe some peanut butter or crackers at home.
I was single then, and no kids or true responsibilities outside of work. It would have been insanity to try and add significant chores and child-rearing to that timetable, and any romance with the partner would be impossible. It doesn’t have anything to do with gaming, much less your wife and family.
I doubt you’d be happy with that long term. I had a friend who did that and it burned him out hard, working long hours for a family he hardly had time with. But maybe you’re exceptional.
Regardless, it’s not easy to find a job like that in this economy.
If I wasn’t salaried I’d be down. But I’d need a new leisure activity since gaming is my main one.
No thanks I would like a work life balance.
As a gamer, I believe the appropriate response is, “Suck my dick fag Johnson, your mom’s a cum guzzling whore draining the resources of my balls.”
Or something to that effect.
“My dad works for Microsoft!!”
It’s unfortunate how many self-described “gamers” voted this entire thing in because they hate women and hate accountability and hate responsibility.
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Only a seasoned Xbox Live veteran could phrase that eloquently.
They messed with gamers.
Gamers.
The labor force participation rate for men ages 25-54 is approximately 90%.
Who the hell is he talking about? We’re all working already
https://www.bls.gov/emp/tables/civilian-labor-force-participation-rate.htm
Children. That’s why they’re eroding child labor laws.
They call 13 year old girls “young women,” so it stands to reason that they’re talking about getting teenage boys into the workforce for minimum wage here, yeah.
I believe you mistyped “military-aged males”
Just classic republican nonsense. Bitching about things that don’t exist. But they blast it all over, so people believe it.
He wants you to work more for less pay to make more money for the people he actually represents.
What the fuck does that have to with access to medical care you absolute fucking waste of flesh‽
No one is living off of Medicare or Medicaid. No one is able to not work and instead play video games all day because of these programs. All a work requirement does is make it harder for these programs to help the people who need them. Which of course makes it more likely that they will be stu k with deteriorating health issues which will make it harder for them to work.
This is just an attempt to cut benefits for the poor to make room for tax cuts for the rich. It’s all about obfuscating the cuts so they can try to dodge accountability.
Fuck you Mike Johnson. You are net drain on humanity. You are actively working to increase suffering and death. Stop pretending to love Jesus because the last time he met someone like you he whipped them and drove them out of the temple.
Absolutely. i would also like to emphasize that this would disproportionately effect people with disabilities.
Also, when I was homesteading, I didn’t officially have a job and didn’t make much money, but I was working far more than an average full time job and was able to support myself other than the cost for health insurance.
But the whole idea that access to healthcare should be linked to and require employment is insane and sociopathic.
They are Nazis. Nazis believe that anyone who isn’t a productive cog in their industrial and military machine doesn’t deserve to live. The USA needs to overthrow this Nazi regime before they start the mass exterminations.
I hate that a little worm like this shithead has any power whatsoever.
This weird little freak can go fuck himself.
That’s funny. Last I checked, I’m not the one taking recess for f’ing Easter of all things.
no one shut down their job and prevented everyone from working for over a week just because they didnt get their way, either.
Typical republican sophistry
