SC Lt. Gov. compares people getting gov’t help to ‘stray animals’ who ‘breed’ because they don’t know better.

From THINK PROGRESS

South Carolina Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer, who is running for the Republican nomination for governor, held a town hall meeting yesterday where he argued government should be tougher on families whose children receive free and reduced-price lunches. Bauer said that parents should be required to “pass drug tests or attend parent-teacher conferences or PTA meetings.” To make this argument, however, he compared people receiving government assistance to stray animals:

“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,” Bauer said. [...]

Later in his speech, Bauer said, “I can show you a bar graph where free and reduced lunch has the worst test scores in the state of South Carolina,” adding, “You show me the school that has the highest free and reduced lunch, and I’ll show you the worst test scores, folks. It’s there, period.“

Bauer later insisted that he “wasn’t saying people on government assistance ‘were animals or anything else.’”

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Oh good lord.

His grandmother was OBVIOUSLY NOT a highly educated woman. What he was saying that if you starve poor people, especially their poor starving children, they'll die off and then they won't grow up to breed and then there won't be anymore poor people and everything will be peachy.

This absolute maroon sees no correlation between poor test scores and hunger? Just cause a kid gets a free lunch doesn't mean he or she is getting proper nutrition at school or afterward. Would you give a shit about learning in school if you lived in abject poverty and was hungry? People with this mindset also don't get that poverty breeds crime.

According to his website, "André believes elected officials should run government like a good businessman runs his own company - by maximizing results while keeping overhead low."

Well that says it all. It's more expedient financially to starve the beggars...