GOP senator insists 'Biblically, you're supposed to work' to earn medical care

[turbinetree]

By Matthew Chapman
Published June 20, 2025 7:34 PM ET

Sen. Jim Justice (R-WV) defended the GOP's planned deep cuts to Medicaid that could kick over 10 million low-income people off health insurance.

According to The Independent's D.C. bureau chief Eric Michael Garcia, when confronted over the plan in President Donald Trump's "big, beautiful bill" to force states to institute work requirements for Medicaid, Justice said, "Biblically, we are supposed to work."

"We have taken the dignity and the hope and the belief away from a lot of people where they are hopeless, they think they can't," he said.

https://www.rawstory.com/jim-justice-2672407677/

These supporters of the authoritarian breakthrough wanna be always use the bible.............Hey justice what do you have to say about this information...............

https://wchstv.com/news/local/report-jim-justice-once-wvas-wealthiest-resident-has-net-worth-less-than-zero

https://wchstv.com/news/local/court-issues-garnishment-summons-to-sen-jim-justice-for-3-million-in-debts

[Buzz cook]

1. Jesus asked for a credit card before each miricle. nt

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[Srkdqltr]

2. Actually we do. We work to pay taxes. Work to pay insurance.

[BOSSHOG]

3. Work to EARN Medical Care

Should that apply to Senators? Let the constituents decide based on employment records.

[vanlassie]

27. What about babies?

[SalamanderSleeps]

33. I think you have something here. GOP logic is absolutely delicious.

If we follow this dickheads lead we should get those little, itty-bitty, motherfuckers in to the workplace A-S-A-P, so they can pay off their passage. Free loading cry-baby whiners. Next, their gonna want to be fed all the time.

[Irish_Dem]

4. The GOP senators are evil to their cores, bent on destroying Americans.

While we pay them huge salaries, perks, benefits, pension.

Shame shame shame on them.

[Norrrm]

5. The Bible has all the answers... IF:

The Bible has all the answers... IF:
you cherry-pick the parts you like.
you reinterpret the parts that are inconvenient.
you ignore the parts you don't like.

[ananda]

8. Thank you! This describes Republican "KKKristians" exactly!

!!!

[tanyev]

6. Actually, woke Jesus sent his disciples out to heal the sick for nothing except a little hospitality.

LUKE 9

Jesus Sends Out the Twelve

1When Jesus had called the Twelve together, he gave them power and authority to drive out all demons and to cure diseases, 2and he sent them out to proclaim the kingdom of God and to heal the sick. 3He told them: “Take nothing for the journey—no staff, no bag, no bread, no money, no extra shirt. 4Whatever house you enter, stay there until you leave that town. 5If people do not welcome you, leave their town and shake the dust off your feet as a testimony against them.” 6So they set out and went from village to village, proclaiming the good news and healing people everywhere.

[TommyT139]

10. And there was nothing about payback

...when deacons were being tasked with seeing to the needs of windows and orphans.

[nilram]

7. I guess I'm more generous than God.

Or, my god is more generous than your God?

Really, it's that my non-god is more generous than your god.

[FirstLight]

9. I really want Jesus to come back...

Just to see him smack the crap out of these bastards 😡

[Abolishinist]

11. Hopefully it will be televised!

[Karadeniz]

12. Jesus said give the poor some clothes, in fact make it two.

[Iris]

34. Didn't he also heal a blind beggar?

[Ping Tung]

13. Biblically?

"You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?"

Mark Twain

[anciano]

16. Exactly!

Reminds me of another quote, this one from "The True Believer" by Eric Hoffer: "It is startling to realize how much unbelief is necessary to make belief possible."

[Skittles]

30. I am convinced

if you can make people believe such nonsense you can make them believe ANYTHING

[msongs]

14. biblically yer not supposed to be a sex worker loving serial adulterer but that's what justice worships 24/7 nt

[Abolishinist]

15. He's not worth a dime. No, really, he's not.

Justice's mining companies have been scrutinized for alleged cases of safety violation and unpaid taxes; in 2016, NPR called him the nation's "top mine safety delinquent". Justice allegedly owed millions of dollars to the government in back taxes and unpaid coal mining fees and fines. Two debt-related lawsuits were settled in 2019,[18] and in 2020 mining companies Justice or his family owned agreed to pay $5 million in delinquent safety fines.

According to a 2020 ProPublica investigation, Justice had paid more than $128 million in judgments and settlements over his businesses' unpaid bills. In October 2023, a federal court ordered the U.S. Marshals Service to seize and sell a helicopter the company owned to pay an $8 million judgment granted to a creditor.

Forbes estimated Justice's net worth at $513.3 million in October 2021. By January 2025, Forbes reported that Justice's net worth had fallen to below 0 due to having over $1 billion in debt.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Justice

[Johonny]

17. Reminder, most of these people have no idea what is in the actual Bible

And know as much about history as they know about any subject. Fucking heartless retard seems to be the most consistent GOP quality in their candidates these days. Why that is popular with anyone tells you more about the sad state of America than anything else.

[summer_in_TX]

25. Ignorant as sin.

Unwillingness to work and taking advantage of others is called out in the bible, but never the inability to work. We are called to feed the poor, welcome the stranger, clothe the naked, visit the prisoner, and tend the sick. Generosity reflects God's character and is commended.

It's more about our own hearts being right with God and less about making absolutely certain that we are not being taken advantage of anyway.

[dgauss]

18. A lot of talk about the value and dignity of work.

Not much about the greed involved in transferring what's earned from that work to the wealthiest and most powerful.

[RedWhiteBlueIsRacist]

19. Mr Justice, the Bible isn't worth the papyrus it was written on.

BTW, why are so many religious warmongers bombing hospitals, and killing kids?

[Skittles]

31. yes

has he checked out THE HOLY LAND recently?

[Karasu]

20. This mindless conservative glorification of work is nothing but an excuse to strip people of all dignity and normalize

a willingness to accept whatever the fuck your masters give you. Just like in the old days. Their hatred of the New Deal is all-consuming.

The belief that people deserve nothing and must "earn" literally EVERYTHING in our short lives (even as prices rise for all eternity) is pure Social Darwinism. Something most fucking Christians ironically don't seem to understand.

And the fucking "prosperity gospel" isn't original Christianity, that shit came much later--the unholy love child of religion and capitalism, trying to convince people that there's somehow some kind of moral dimension to obtaining financial success. The fact that Trump even fucking exists should be enough to fucking disqualify that one.

[Aaeia]

21. GOP give the Bible a bad name

[Skittles]

32. mmmm

don't really need the GOP to do that

[Retrograde]

22. Then why did Jesus tell his followers to heal the sick

without any mention of how much they should charge? And while he was at it he also told them to feed the hungry and shelter the homeless.

[electric_blue68]

23. Hey, Jerk, we are NOT a Theocracy! Oh, and, FU Heritage Foundation!

[eShirl]

24. The bible is not the law.

[CentralMass]

26. Republican scum. Buggering the needy and down trodden in the name of God.

[SamKnause]

28. Fuck you.

Fuck your "god".

Fuck your evil book.

Prove any of this nonsense is true or shut the fuck up !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Midnight Writer]

29. Conservatives always want the 10 Commandments in schools, but never the 8 Beatitudes.

I bet if it was required to post the Beatitudes in public schools, the conservatives would fight tooth and nail against it.