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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I hear what you're saying, but let's stop it before it starts. Let's teach young women that biology has given them a unique place in life; something men will never, ever understand. If women took that to heart and protected themselves 100%, rather than counting on the guy to do 50%, there would be fewer unwanted pregnancies.
And yes, in reality, men should want to protect themselves 100% because many a young man has been "trapped" by a girl's intentional, but I'm concerned more for the girls who think life's a 50/50 split and she can trust that some guy's going to step up to the responsibility plate just because he's slept with her.
I came across this show yesterday called Teen Moms.
This is how many welfare recepients continue the cycle. They continue to have children, which allows them to continue benefits. Next thing you know, many of them are raising
While I was on Welfare,
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So very true, and don't think these men who work in the system don't know that and try to take advantage of
I agree that women need to look after themselves...but I've known families where the young men have been raised to understand that BC is just as much their responsibility as it is for the young women.
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