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submitted 2 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world

"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.

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[-] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 3 points 2 months ago

You're a drain on resources you authoritarian bootlicker.

[-] Mk23simp@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 months ago

He had me at "Return the dignity of work".

I don't think that he has any intention to do that, but that would certainly go a long way towards getting people to work like he wants.

[-] Gadg8eer@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

Was annoyed, then confused, then I see what you mean. Yeah, he's got no intention of actually bringing dignity back to the workplace, but some people would be willing to work if jobs were treated in a dignified way. As it is, tipping alone has ruined any possibility that the US would ever let the people "take away" the ability of rich people to have servants.

[-] 1995ToyotaCorolla@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

The day Mike quits his cushy job as house speaker and goes to work in the mines is the day I'll join him there

[-] Th3D3k0y@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

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)

[-] Auli@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

No thanks I would like a work life balance.

[-] Bosht@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] absentbird@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

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.

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[-] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

‘They’re draining resources’

... from their rich overlords.

That's what he means.

[-] eierkuchen@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

Hes totally a drain on Oxygen ressources. He should stop using it.

[-] drinkwaterkin@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

This must be a sign from God that I need to pursue the American dream of monetized game streaming.

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I hate that a little worm like this shithead has any power whatsoever.

This weird little freak can go fuck himself.

[-] libra00@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Mike Johnson, you are cordially invited to fuck all the way off with that delusional bullshit.

When the hell will 'wholly detached rich guy says other people should work harder to make him even richerer' stop being so fucking common? I see like one of these a month minimum these days. Man, fuck every one of these assclowns.

[-] chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

I just finished working four 12 hour shifts dealing with morons and shitty people, Mike. I'll play some god damn video games if I want to.

[-] Makeitstop@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] AngrySquirrel@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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.

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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.

Hey now, the reason I game so much is cause I have insomnia. I go to work!

[-] frezik@midwest.social 1 points 2 months ago

Couldn't you get some kind of medication to help with that from our wonderful healthcare system . . . ah, yes, I see the problem now.

[-] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Stop wasting your life playing vidyagaems. Start wasting your life creating shareholder value.

[-] Objection@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

They targeted gamers.

[-] vividspecter@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago
[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

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.

Many men look at the pain/reward ratio and it's not actually worth it. People are rational: toiling away to at best afford a tiny apartment that takes up half your salary while the other half is spent on food is not alluring. Ironically, this guy is in a position to alter society so the rewards are not so small and instead he chooses moral condemnation as the tool to motivate, as though his castigation will change the equation. He may be an idiot or may be very intelligent and just exploiting the system by saying what people want to hear to distract from the real problem.

How about do literally fucking anything to make it possible to work in exchange for a living wage, huh? I hope these fascists get sent to concentration camps themselves in the end they fucking deserve it, unlike the Jews did.

[-] JealousJail@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago

I‘m curious if he told Elmo the same. The ~~guy~~ nazi who streams gaming content from his private jet 30% of his day, posts shit on shitter 60% of the day and fucks up democracy 20% of the day.

This is what these productivity gurus are referring to when they‘re talking about giving 110% every day

[-] smeenz@lemmy.nz 1 points 2 months ago

Being CEO of 7 companies while also being the unelected head of a major government department only leaves a person with 99% of their time available for other stuff.

[-] boaratio@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Mike Johnson has a very cab forward face. (Look it up, it was a thing.)

[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 1 points 2 months ago

Pay people more work and have them do dignified jobs (ie: not making them pee in a bottle) and you'd have more people working.

Treat people like shit and crash the global economy, not so much.

But it's not like conservatives care about making sense of being consistent. Hang mike johnson.

[-] Sarmyth@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Well since its always projection with these losers, I wonder what he's been playing lately that he feels so guilty about.

[-] MuskyMelon@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Anime-based porn games... Doesn't filter out by his son.

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