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PatsFan87

(368 posts)
Sat Apr 22, 2017, 08:13 AM Apr 2017

Republican Montana U.S. House candidate Greg Gianforte's dangerous views on retirement

“There’s nothing in the Bible that talks about retirement. And yet it’s been an accepted concept in our culture today,” he said. “Nowhere does it say, ‘Well, he was a good and faithful servant, so he went to the beach.’ It doesn’t say that anywhere.”

“The example I think of is Noah,” he continued. “How old was Noah when he built the ark? 600. He wasn’t like, cashing Social Security checks, he wasn’t hanging out, he was working. So, I think we have an obligation to work. The role we have in work may change over time, but the concept of retirement is not biblical.”


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/09/greg-gianforte-montana_n_7536568.html

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Republican Montana U.S. House candidate Greg Gianforte's dangerous views on retirement (Original Post) PatsFan87 Apr 2017 OP
I'll bet he wants a work requirement safeinOhio Apr 2017 #1
Soul-less VigilantG Apr 2017 #2
And why would a 50 y.o. making $43,000 a year, with little savings vote for this man? Chasstev365 Apr 2017 #3
It's crazy. Hopefully this is used in an ad because this sort of thinking is scary as hell. PatsFan87 Apr 2017 #9
He was 600 years old... N_E_1 for Tennis Apr 2017 #4
So, what? sinkingfeeling Apr 2017 #5
When he is voted out of Congress, I hope whatever money he has evaporates Mr. Ected Apr 2017 #6
He's just a candidate. Hes running in a special election to replace Zinker, who is now Interior Sec RAFisher Apr 2017 #8
Okay duncang Apr 2017 #7

Chasstev365

(5,191 posts)
3. And why would a 50 y.o. making $43,000 a year, with little savings vote for this man?
Sat Apr 22, 2017, 08:24 AM
Apr 2017

Let's bring slavery and stoning people to death because that too is in the bible, don't ya know!

It BOGGLES the mind!

N_E_1 for Tennis

(9,753 posts)
4. He was 600 years old...
Sat Apr 22, 2017, 08:54 AM
Apr 2017

working on building a huge boat and didn't have ACA.

You want to live longer? Repeal ObamaCare!!!


Mr. Ected

(9,670 posts)
6. When he is voted out of Congress, I hope whatever money he has evaporates
Sat Apr 22, 2017, 10:11 AM
Apr 2017

I hope he heeds his own words and eschews his government hand-out federal pension.

I hope he has to work until his dying day.

These Republican scumbags apply different standards to the general public because they think themselves above them. Their disdain for their constituents is despicable.

And their constituents' allegiance to them is a sign of societal mental illness.

duncang

(1,907 posts)
7. Okay
Sat Apr 22, 2017, 10:23 AM
Apr 2017

So since I started my first when I was 13 and saved money for retirement so I could retire he tells me I shouldn't?

And greg btw the earth isn't flat.

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