“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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    Who gives away drugs? What’s the business model here? How will you get repeat business?

    These people don’t think things through!

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      My wife’s grand father once told her, “Don’t drive through (hippie college town near us) with your windows open because they’ll throw drugs into your car.” Ever since then I rolled down the windows regardless of weather. Never scored free drugs.

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      Well they do say “the first one’s free”, but anonymously both ways? The dealer doesn’t know his potential customers, the potential customer doesn’t know where that shit came from? You have to be dumb to fall for such a scare story. But the kneejerk of “Our Children” is strong.

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      Right? Even if it was a “prank”, you wouldn’t see the result anyway. Nothing about it makes sense.