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akhier t1_j7xgqd2 wrote

This is why healthcare should not be connected to your job.

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artificialavocado t1_j7xu069 wrote

We would have had it like 50 years ago but our heroic job creators can’t come to a consensus. They hate paying for it but love having the leverage over us peons.

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yoyoma125 t1_j7zmke7 wrote

In fairness…

The peons love voting against their own interests. I’ve heard so many people I would consider poor say ‘that’s socialism’ or ‘I don’t want to pay for some poor person’s health insurance’

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Jacket73 t1_j7zo65t wrote

Reminds me of the convo I was privy to a few years back.

Person A: "Thank GOD for Trump and getting rid of that goddamn Obama care."

Person B: "Wait, what? Aren't you on Obama care?"

Person A: "DUH, NOOOO, I'm on the affordable care act insurance!"

Person B: Stunned silence.

Gump said "stupid is as stupid does" well I guess stupid is as stupid votes? Or something like that...shrug

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yoyoma125 t1_j7zof1l wrote

Oh brother…

We need to invest in education too while we are at it.

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FightingGasoline t1_j800zpq wrote

Childhood education, not colleges. They have their own scams already

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yoyoma125 t1_j808ohs wrote

And we already have the top research universities in the world.

Addressing the runaway inflation with public university tuition would be a much more practical and beneficial approach.

I’m not sure a bunch of High School graduates would have split the atom in the 1940’s or got us to the moon within 50 years after the first flight.

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ThePopeJones t1_j7zneca wrote

Sounds like my family's banter this last thanksgiving.

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yoyoma125 t1_j7znmpu wrote

It’s essentially everyone’s family now that it’s become clear how easily influenced everyone is on social media. There is at least one…

We’ve already lost our country to lobbyist.

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Rabbitdraws t1_j7zvehi wrote

True and this time we will be so brainwashed, that some ppl will be fighting over toilet paper while others will brag they can clean ass with leaves just as well.

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Xyncx t1_j7znk3t wrote

A tale as old as time. The Romans were pros.

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Rheum42 t1_j80f0ao wrote

Yeah, my fellow Americans exhaust me

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JazzFan1998 t1_j7xq5x2 wrote

RIGHT! Let's all write our congressman and demand it ! Seriously!!

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akhier t1_j7xw8y2 wrote

Good luck with that. Congress literally just days ago denounced socialism and this sort of thing is one of the prime examples of what they think of when they think of socialism.

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Jacket73 t1_j7zpc8y wrote

Yeah, "they" have generations now of successfully tying socialism to a communist totalitarian dictatorship like socialism=North Korea, and then tying social programs to socialism. So, it has now basically come down to "You want free public schools for children?!?!" "Then you must want to live in North Korea you nutjob!"

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Accomplished_Pie_153 t1_j7xqp2d wrote

they care about us, so they must certainly be working on it right now... right? i mean, it's important enough to lock yourselves in until you come up with a solution.

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dogmomdrinkstea t1_j7z4x1p wrote

The cynic in me wants to laugh at "they care about us". I'm a queer, autistic woman with a functioning uterus. I know for sure some of them don't care if people like me are okay.

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insofarincogneato t1_j80kag1 wrote

But it's a benefit for working for us!

Them, probably.

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akhier t1_j80q5bp wrote

That is literally how it started from what I remember. Great depression and all that, so businesses needed some way to pay their workers without actually paying them and thus benefits like healthcare were put on the table.

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