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.”

    • Angry_Autist (he/him)@lemmy.world
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      The children of indentured servants were eligible to be free citizens

      Indentured servanthood had a clearly defined period of service

      Freed indentured servants could petition to become full members of the household and inherit the master’s estate.

      Being an indentured servant to a prestigious master was a social mark of standing, elevating them in some periods even above free citizens of low standing. Never the case in chattel slavery

      Indentured servants and their families were owed damages when the violence was deemed unjust or resulted in permanent damage or death.

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        1. the status of your child does not tell us whether or not you were a slave

        2. this is just false. Foreign slaves were kept for life.

        3. see 2

        4. somw slaves having a “better life” than some free people is a common whitewashing tactic, which doesn’t make it not slavery.

        5. having restrictions against the cruelest and most injust masters does not mean it isn’t slavery.