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emigre80.bsky.social • 1 day ago

Translation: They're cutting benefits

Rep. Keith Self on Medicaid: "When they use scare tactics to say we're cutting benefits, we're only trying to get able-bodied adults working."

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phbehnken1234.bsky.social•1 day ago

If (at this moment) you are an able-bodied adult, be grateful. Look around and you'll see not everyone is as lucky. You could have an accident, be a victim of crime, catch a dangerous infection, get cancer or just get old and weak. That's life! It's all give and take. Enjoy it while you can.

phbehnken1234.bsky.social•1 day ago

What's an able-bodied adult? What makes you think all people receiving benefits are lazy? A lot of them are children and we have laws (thank goodness!) regulating how much they can work. Adults grifting the system should be charged w/fraud -- and some are -- but don't punish everyone else.

phbehnken1234.bsky.social•1 day ago

The best way to pay for them is to NOT DO THEM. The billionaires can pay the same percentage of their income to the government as the rest of us do every year. Period. This is not a rich-baby nanny state. Grow up. Take responsibility just like the rest of us have done all our lives.

phbehnken1234.bsky.social•1 day ago

The argument allowing them to hoard money is that they provide jobs for the rest of us, so they are special. Well, the rest of us provide a workforce, so WE'RE special. You can't have one without the other. And if they leave the US, let them. That means they didn't love this country to begin with.

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