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.”

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    9 小时前

    Great, then he should have no problem voting to strip himself and his fellow congressmen of their 100% government funded healthcare.

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      9 小时前

      Why aren’t these rich assholes able to buy cloths that fit?

      I know it’s a side issue to their evil, but it doesn’t make any sense.

      “I’m going to wear an expensive suit, but you’re too poor for me to allow you to take my measurements”

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    17 小时前

    Get that fucker in a field where the farmers can’t retain other workers!

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    17 小时前

    yeah and “biblically” we’re supposed to be feeding, clothing, washing, and housing the homeless as Jesus commanded. We’re supposed to be taking care of the ill, as Jesus commanded. We’re supposed to “love thy neighbour” and treat everyone, regardless of their gender, race, sexual orientation, equally as Jesus commanded.

    But of course we’re not doing any of that and according to the Bible and Jesus that’s an instant ticket to “Hell”.

    If Heaven exists it must be a fairly empty place.

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    18 小时前

    Biblically, we are supposed to be relaxing and taking care of our home.

    Work is a divine punishment. I am no Buddhist but this dude didn’t read the Quran properly.

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      17 小时前

      That verse you posted said 7x7 years, so every 49 years, with one year off after, so a 50 year cycle. Then I guess they “buy” land throughout the next 50 year cycle based on how many years remain. Ie, if it’s 25 years into the cycle, the price for a field might be half off. Not a terrible system really, for the age. At the end of the cycle, it all goes back to the “clan” to be resold again.

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    18 小时前

    What was it again with rich people getting into heaven and the camel/rope and the needle?

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      15 小时前

      A scripture so inconvenient that they had to spend a good chunk of the last 2,000 years contorting an explanation for why the obvious reading must be wrong.

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    21 小时前

    if only these people didn’t pick and choose excerpts from an adult fiction novel in order to justify ruining other peoples’ lives.

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    22 小时前

    Luke 12:27-28

    27 Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; and yet I say to you, even Solomon in all his glory was not [a]arrayed like one of these. 28 If then God so clothes the grass, which today is in the field and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will He clothe you, O you of little faith?

    That bible?

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        16 小时前

        That’s a different bible with a different title. It’s really close, so maybe that’s why they confuse it. But that testament they are quoting from is actually called “Mein Kampf”.

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    1 天前

    Cool, so he follows the bible and is saying people should be working just as much, or little, as him, right? RIGHT!? What a joke.

    I remember hearing about journalists as a kid, the ones who would actually ask questions and investigate. Not just reguritate whatever word vomit these troglodytes spew.