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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

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      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.

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    I’d love to play some video games, anyone know where I can find some of this free healthcare?

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      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.

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        Looking forward to the federal thc hemp ban. Then I can grow weed for huge profit margins, quit my real job, and actually sit around and play video games without giving anything back to society all day like he’s accusing us all of doing. Wish they’d make alcohol illegal too. We have enough dipshits in congress for this to happen after they do all this horrible stuff and then get angry when non of it accomplishes what they think it will accomplish. Moonshine is even easier to mass produce than weed and like 4000% easier to get away with.

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        It’s much worse than that, They have the entire US stock market rigged to so the same.

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    LOL, Says the guy mooching off all of us for free healthcare and a paycheck.

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    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.

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    Where does a young man get this free health care? I’m not young anymore, but for free health care I can pretend to be…

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    There was a billionaire, CEO to multiple companies, arguing that he’s one of the best in one of the most grindiest games…

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    I’m disabled and can’t afford a working computer to play video games, you rich motherfucker.

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    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.”

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      That’s a billion dollar scratch that could have made a huge difference in thousands of lives.

      Okay, sure. But consider that they didn’t earn those billions of dollars by sucking up to the right assortment of Wall Street financiers, rich family members, and ego-driven Presidential nominees.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.