The former billionaire, who inherited a coal mining business from his father, presides over a state where 29% of residents are on Medicaid

When Senator Jim Justice of West Virginia was asked about the Senate Republicans’ newly released portion of the proposed spending bill that requires parents of children older than 14 to work for Medicaid, he said, “biblically, we are supposed to work.”

  • Machinist@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Don’t you just love this fucking bullshit dripping from the mouth of a parasite who’s never seen hard times?

    I do actually agree with the core of this idea. Most people are not happy in a state of long term indolence. Most of us need ‘work’ to be happy. However, that ‘work’ might be carving sculpture, teaching children, breeding plants, or theoretical physics.

    How many Albert Einsteins and George Washington Carvers died of blacklung from the mines this parasite inherited?