The Absurd GOP

[Ivan Denisovich]

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

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.

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.

Justice, who inherited a coal mining business and was a billionaire before his net worth was wiped out by extensive debt, has nonetheless warned his fellow senators that other aspects of the bill's cuts could be going too far, including a proposal to force states to pay more of the cost of the food stamp program.

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

I'm struggling to remember the Bible verse wherein Jesus sent Lazarus an invoice for services provided. Can a brotha get some help?

He who does not work, neither shall he eat was uttered by Paul (and repeated by Trotsky) but I can't recall anything about health care needing to be paid for. If anything good Samaritan story would imply otherwise but it wouldn't be first time when right winger does not understand his own book of fables.