SC Lt. Gov. compares people getting gov’t help to ‘stray animals’ who ‘breed’ ...

[Demeter]

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

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/01/23/bauer-stray/

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.’”

[niyad]

1. gee, bauer, what the hell are we supposed think when you say that? or did you forget there were

press there, probably cameras--you know, things like RECORDING DEVICES. I would love to see his "ample supply of food" lost.

may this creature without heart, without soul, without one iota of decency or compassion or caring, receive everything he deserves.

[niyad]

2. this has been posted several times here, but cannot be posted often enough.

bauer needs to have this brought up every time he opens his mouth. is there video, can it go viral?

[muntrv]

3. Hey Andre! Quit collecting taxpayer money if you feel that way!

[Hello_Kitty]

4. Aren't ALL parents with children in public schools benefitting from government assistance?

Last time I checked, they weren't charging tuition. Therefore, he should be insisting every parent of a child in public school has to pass drug tests, attend PTA meetings, etc. I'm sure that'll go over real well with middle class white GOP voters.

[Demeter]

5. Why Do You Think They Are Trying to Kill Public Education?

So that it isn't there.