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Jack Valentino

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Sun Jun 1, 2025, 11:09 PM Jun 2025

This morning I wanted to SHOOT my television! House Speaker Johnson was on....

Last edited Sun Jun 1, 2025, 11:52 PM - Edit history (1)

(think it was CBS 'Face The Nation'),
opining once again about how the "work requirements" in the big ugly bill
are about "making young men work" for Medicaid and SNAP---

while both programs ALREADY have work requirements up to age 54,
but the BIG UGLY bill would raise that age to 64---
meaning Republicans want to force old people into work, not young people---
or just cut them from the programs thereby, (the REAL plan) when they can't get a job,
or fail to "keep up with the paperwork", even if they already DO meet the proposed requirements--

thereby enabling those "budget savings so we can give billionaires
a big tax cut, AGAIN!"


So once again, Speaker Johnson is clearly one BIG UGLY LYING SON OF A BITCH!

(No surprise there--- as I like to teach young children, "ALL Republicans Are LIARS!" )



OK--- I didn't really want to shoot my television, since I can't afford to replace it---
now I must stop right here.



((YES, I initially confused Speaker "Mike" Johnson with WI-GQP Senator "Ron" Johnson---
and little to choose between them!))

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This morning I wanted to SHOOT my television! House Speaker Johnson was on.... (Original Post) Jack Valentino Jun 2025 OP
So The US Taxpayer Is Subsidizing Private Industry modrepub Jun 2025 #1
yup. medical care, housing, food. mopinko Jun 2025 #2

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1. So The US Taxpayer Is Subsidizing Private Industry
Mon Jun 2, 2025, 03:23 AM
Jun 2025

Instead of whoever employs these people paying for medical insurance as part of their pay package, a private company is basically off loading the cost onto US taxpayers. Would be nice if a journalist would frame the question that way, wouldn't it?

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