Starve Them and Stop the Breeding
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| Mon, 01-25-2010 - 1:38pm |
S.C. Republican’s Plan: Starve the Poor So They’ll Stop “Breedingâ€
Lt. Governor, Andre Bauer: If you feed, them, they’ll just come back for more–and worse still, they’ll multiply.
Poor people are like stray dogs and cats, says South Carolina’s Republican Lt. Governor, Andre Bauer. If you feed, them, they’ll just come back for more–and worse still, they’ll multiply. That’s why it’s a bad idea to give them free food or other forms of public assistance.
At a forum in Greeneville on Saturday, Bauer, who is running for governor, told the crowd:
My grandmother was not a highly educated woman, but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals. You know why? Because they breed.
You’re facilitating the problem if you give an animal or a person ample food supply. They will reproduce, especially ones that don’t think too much further than that. And so what you’ve got to do is you’ve got to curtail that type of behavior. They don’t know any better.
In a later interview with the Columbia, S.C. newspaper The State, Bauer “said he could have chosen his words more carefully,†but that doesn’t change the fact that “South Carolina needs to have an honest conversation about the cycle of government dependency among its poorest residents.â€
According to the Children’s Defense Fund, those ���poorest residents†include 190,000 children. South Carolina is the 37th worst state when it come to child poverty, 45th worst for infant mortality, and 48th worst for low birth weight babies. Perhaps Andre Bauer can have an “honest conversation†with them–if they aren’t too hungry to talk.
Bauer, who has risen in state politics as a Christian conservative, was immediately attacked by his Democratic opponents for the governor’s seat:
“It amazes me how some Republican politicians claim a monopoly on Christianity and then go out and say and do some of the most un-Christian things imaginable,†said Charleston attorney Mullins McLeod, who participated in a candidates forum in Columbia along with Bauer Saturday. “... Bauer’s comments are despicable and the total opposite of the Christian values Bauer espouses.â€
Those “Christian values†were much on display back in June of 2009, when Bauer was rumored to be pressuring Mark Sanford to resign after the governor declared his love for his Argentinian girlfriend. (According to state law, Bauer would have replaced him.)
Yes, Mr. Bauer, let's starve them. That should definitely do the trick. Before long America could look just like Haiti (before the earthquake), with rows of plywood shacks in every city and little children dying in the streets. What an America to be proud of.
Are there too many people taking advantage of so-called poverty in this country? Absolutely. Should we try to re-evaluate "poverty" and make changes accordingly? You bet. But the idea of starvation as a means to ending poverty? What kind of heartless creature even allows such a thought to come to their mind?
In case Mr. Bauer hasn't noticed (and I'm sure he hasn't) there are approximately 11 million Americans out of a job right now. An immeasurable number are underemployed.
Before we could even consider making poor people self-reliant we would have to find work for all those who are currently marketable but lack decent employment. Then we would have to school and train those poor people to bring them up to speed in order for them to compete in the job market alongside everyone else. And the truly poor, those who honestly deserve public assistance will never be on the job rolls because they are elderly or handicapped (physically or mentally). Should we watch poor, elderly people starve to death? What about the handicapped? Should we starve them, too?
It is statements like Mr. Bauer's that has turned me against anything even remotely Republican. With spokespeople like him and Rush and Sean, how much lower could they sink when it comes to thoughtlessness and the inability to find solutions rather than brew hatefulness?

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Can we guess that SC
>"“It amazes me how some Republican politicians claim a monopoly on Christianity and then go out and say and do some of the most un-Christian things imaginable,” said Charleston attorney Mullins McLeod, who participated in a candidates forum in Columbia along with Bauer Saturday. “... Bauer’s comments are despicable and the total opposite of the Christian values Bauer espouses.”"<
Amen.
From his website on "Right to Life":
"Lt. Governor André Bauer has always supported and will continue to support anti-abortion legislation. He believes every child deserves the chance to explore the world we live in and experience God's creations."
I have not seen anything about this dental group that was ripping medicaid off. Something like 16 million dollars.. Have a child go thru 16 root canals, for baby teeth. Talk about a double standard.
The Dental group is called Small Smiles.
There is probably more welfare fraud from Dr.'s, Dentist and medical supply companies than any other group.
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I just googled "small smiles fraud." The stories of what the kids went through are just horrific. Makes me see how wonderfull dd's dentist is. I guess I'll quit whining about the 45 minute drive to see him, and the couple of hundred a year I spend to have him take care of her teeth. They always let me stay with her. She has had one small cavity filled, and they were so sweet and fun about it. They put a numbing solution on her gums, before giving her the novacaine. Had her look away at something, so she never even saw the needle going in her mouth. They call the little vacuum thing, Mr. Sippy, and let her hold it. Let her look at her teeth with the tiny mirror.
Agreed.
I just saw a tv commercial for Small Smiles....to think they are using little kids and their pain to line their pockets! And of course they are aiming their commercials at low income people because they know they will think they are doing a good thing for their children. Why are they still in business? This is why we need to do more about medicare and medicaid fraud as a way of keeping those programs functioning properly. The darned ads for those motorized scooters really get me upset too. You can get a scooter even if you are not incapable of walking (okay some people may need one, but if they are having trouble walking, let them get one of those scooters, and they will forget about walking and then they will lose the ability to walk!) But people who cannot hear, and desperately need hearing aids can't get them from medicare as they are not considered essential to their well being. Tell that to our uncle who stopped going to church because he couldn't hear the preacher and who can't understand the doctor when he tries to explain the options he has for his lung cancer. Don't get me started! The companies who make millions from ripping off the government and subsequently the tax payers (us) should be put out of business and never, ever given a license to operate again.
Okay, off the soap box!
Disgusting.
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