Obamacare mandates employers offer healthcare to people working 30 hrs a week. A lot of places will only allow you to be scheduled for less than 30 hours a week, even if you are able and willing to go full time. It's stupid, but some people have convinced themselves that it's Obamacare's fault that their employer is shitty and the subsequent governments have been unwilling to close that loophole. It's also worth mentioning that employers did this even before Obamacare because there are other things that full time employees are entitled to that part time employees aren't.

Also called it Obongocare which made me immediately lose any empathy to them for the racism, but it is 4chan I guess.

99% likely they vote Republican based on the attitide also, which is the root cause of a lot of their complaints (min wage, shitty employee protections, expensive Internet [almost certainly one of the monopoly ISP areas], has to rely on a car because public transit is socialism).

Yeah, the Democratic party sucks by and large for many other reasons, but id rather live in a D city than an R one any day of the week. /end obligatory response to "but Dems"

Also curious about that. Why not work more and cry less?

born in 1949 Don't have to fight in a war

Hmmm

It's because of greedy capitalist fucks who are squeezing you

A healthcare system that makes everyone dependent on employers really makes it easy for them.

Medicare For All is about a lot more than just healthcare.

Yeah that stuck out at me too. I love how the conservative media has thoroughly convinced the average dimwitted moron from flyover states that all of their problems are because of Obamacare and not because of the greed of their employer and the laws that they have enticed Congress to enact in their favor to prevent them from having to employ people full time.

It's kinda both. The ACA was based on Heritage Foundation work that was done for the benefit of insurance companies. Not much consideration was put into the behaviors it would incentivize in employers.

Healthy businees model will not cut it these days. Infinite growrh or your investors abandon you.

They were keeping people below full time hours to begin with, it just got lowered to squeeze that extra penny from their buttholes.

The capitalist fucks are swinging the whip. The 25-hour limit is the whip they are swinging. Both are a problem.

So it's because of Biden? I will not listen to your sourced explanation BTW

Yes, in fact that's on the cheap side for unlimited with decent speeds for both services.

That's about correct, idk what everyone else is on about, but my phone costs me $70 a month, and my Internet costs $60, and those were the cheapest plans I could get. Not to mention that the reason my phone bill isn't higher is because I had to buy my phone outright at $600.

Shits expensive here, for no reason other than corporate greed.

Anecdotally: I've lived in the sort of place he's describing and the internet was an overpriced monopoly. Farmers and people in larger cities both paid much better prices for better service. But the ISP had some deal where they had exclusive rights to run equipment on the power poles (or other companies needed their technicians present first or some bullshit which they would delay to the point of impracticality).

At $115 he probably didn't get the lowest speed and could have done like $60 for internet and $40 for phone but yeah, I can believe it.

that's cheap. i oftne pay well over $150 a month for basic interent and phone plan for single person.

No, it's definitely on the pricier side.

$30/line is a common price for unlimited phone service.

You can get home Internet for $40-$50/month.

I think I pay 25 for Internet and 30 for unlimited phone.

EDIT: in fact if you're income limited there are cheaper government subsidized plans.

Most ISPs and cellular plans charge out the ass for arbitrary data limits and faster speeds in the U.S. Some areas have decent ISPs not trying to nickel and dime you but not super common.

"Voluntarily"

Which seems like a decent plan, untill your house breaks down or runs out fuel in the middle of nowhere, or your apartment gets impounded while you're at work or using the gym shower, or even just while you're sleeping in it..., and then auctioned off after the mail notice they sent to your last physical address was not responded to in time.

Its basically not legal, anywhere in the US, right now, to live in a car and park it almost anywhere.

You have to be hypervigilant, to survive this way, and ... that just is PTSD, it'll make you worse at your job, more likely to lose it.

So we're basically just making a permanent, sub-proletariat class, thats just gonna get funneled into jail or some kind of concentration camp, probably just turned into some kind of functional, if not formal slave class, whether by debt or criminal conviction or both... within, I dunno, 5 years or less?

15 bucks is like double minimum wage in most places. But yeah, I'd love $750 rent, but he obviously lives in the middle of nowhere