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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    5 months ago

    Wait wait wait wait. You’re telling me, a bunch of poor rural white people elected an out-of-touch billionaire who never worked a day in his life, and it’s news that he doesn’t give a flying rat’s ass about those he represents?

    Well fuck me sideways.