“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.
The US has the lowest unemployment rate in history. Who he fuck has time to play games?!
I usually fall asleep 15 mins into playing because corporate America drains my resources 40+ hours a week.
I like to look at the employment population ratio of those 25-54. We don’t need to count college kids, and we don’t need to count retired folk. This is a nice, easy measure that doesn’t need many judgement calls on who has a job and who wants a job.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS12300060
And yup, it’s as close to the high as it ever was.