do you think his grandma used the word facilitating

I think maybe we shouldn’t feed him, it just encourages him.

Wow, South Carolina is really medieval.

As someone who feeds the feral cats in the yard, I can testify to the fact that they will breed, unless you capture them and get them fixed, which is what Amy and I have been doing for the last six months. Is Lt. Gov. Bauer suggesting that we should spay or neuter poor people?

Who cares? It’s not like they’re people or anything. They’re probably brown too!

Seriously though, old white rich fucker. What do you expect?

Since strays are often rounded up and taken to a “shelter” never to be heard from again, perhaps Mr. Bauer will next suggest concentration camps (human “shelters”) as a solution to the problem of poor people. 

Of course, if assholes like Bauer and his Rich White Male ilk would would pay decent wages, support universal healthcare, and patch the other holes in the social safety net, maybe those poor people wouldn’t be poor any more…

Incertus, I’m sure that’s next on the agenda.

While that’s pretty mindboggling, I’m tempted to say kudos for saying out loud what I’m sure he’s not the only one to think.  The paternalistic, neo-white-man’s-burden attitude sucks.  Coming this close to articulating it takes both idiocy and guts.

I had to check the link to make sure it didn’t go to the onion and then the thought occurred that someone is going to the special hell

But…but…you don’t feed strays because then you get more strays turning up.  Short of getting to the point of starvation, they’re breeding whether you feed them or not.

Though this whole thing is phenomenally stupid when you combine the zomg-breeding-poor sentiment with the refusal to subsidize birth control, sterilization, or abortion for the poor when they actually want it.

Joe Wilson, Mark Sanford, and now Andre Bauer…..what are these SC politicians smoking????

While I appreciate Carol Fowler’s efforts to convince non-residents that my home state doesn’t have those values, I am afraid she isn’t being completely honest here, and she knows it. Bauer’s words are *exactly* what the majority of South Carolina values.

May I just say that South Carolina has always been our most obnoxious state?  Hell, they were annoying even before the Revolutionary War!

Trust me, there are plenty of people up here in The Land of Frozen Chosen (MN) who believe the poor should be rounded up and either forcibly sterilized or euthanized.  The more Christian ones would probably advocate prison camps.  There may be more of those people per square mile in SC but they are everywhere.

It’s not like they’re people or anything. They’re probably brown too!

The very thing I thought when I read “specially ones that don’t think too much further than that” was oh! He’s using a charming code phrase for n******!

Absolutely gobsmacking. Every time I think these people can’t get any worse, they do.

blockquote> Trust me, there are plenty of people up here in The Land of Frozen Chosen (MN) who believe the poor should be rounded up and either forcibly sterilized or euthanized.  The more Christian ones would probably advocate prison camps.  There may be more of those people per square mile in SC but they are everywhere.
Comment #14: BadKitty on 01/23 at 07:36 PM </blockquote>

Well you see Kitty,  the white kitties we don’t want to sterilize because we can always find homes for them, Pure-ina feeding, country music listening, clean litterbox homes.  Especially if they are blue-eyed, white kitties.  We really need more white kitties because those black and brown and yellow kitties are going to breed us into a minority.  SO, those color kitties are the ones that need to be sterilized.

South Carolina again. Is it something in the water?

You’re facilitating the problem if you give an animal or a person ample food supply.

Hard to imagine a more succinct yet comprehensive summary of the Republican philosophy.

You have to be glad, in a way, that he’s saying it openly.  Too bad none of those strays could possibly be cleaned up, trained and find good, productive homes. Oh, wait. Even feral animals that are lured in with food can often be fostered and quickly improved to adoptable condition. But I guess educating your poor people and helping them get jobs would be unamerican or something.

Aww, phylosopher, I have a blue eyed white kitty and she is a sweetie. She was part of a stray litter and we had her spayed, though.

I mean an actual cat, not a metaphor. Also actually she has one yellow eye and one blue eye.  I am not sure what that would mean metaphorically.

Seriously though, much as I love my cats, people are not cats. I run my cats’ lives; I decide when and how much they eat, whether they breed, where they live, when they go to the doctor. People get to run their own lives. Yes, even if they are poor. Even if they make decisions different from mine. This key difference between people and cats seems to elude the lieutenant governor.

Well, I knew we were heading to fascism, but even with the recent SCOTUS decisions, I hadn’t realized we were already there.

Holy shit!

...The Land of Frozen Chosen(MN)

I thought that was just St. Louis Park!
Now I’m having images of the Mississippi parting and Jesse Ventura leading the faithful out of Wisconsin…

Well, blue-eyed white kitties have a high co-relation with congenital deafness in cats.

So having one yellow eye means she’s prolly got a better ear than this fellow.

*sigh* Why is it always Republicans who say these things and yet liberals get tarred with it?

Well, blue-eyed white kitties have a high co-relation with congenital deafness in cats.

So having one yellow eye means she’s prolly got a better ear than this fellow.

*sigh* Why is it always Republicans who say these things and yet liberals get tarred with it?
Comment #23: Crissa on 01/24 at 05:20 AM

Yeah, there are lots of of genetic problems with “pure” white mammals.  IN horses, a true albino is lethal.  (usually a recessive gene.) I’m thinking of the Scott Roeder obsession as well as the racism which Bauer’s position is usually code for.

Is Lt. Gov. Bauer suggesting that we should spay or neuter poor people? Incertus, Nacho Daddy

http://mississippiappendectomy.wordpress.com/ It’s already been done. I’m fairly certain this douchebag would have no problem with it. :/

So, is he proposing specific salary cap on sterilization? If you aren’t making more than 20K/year by the time you’re 30, the state snips you?

You can have a lot of kids by the time you’re 30.  My guess is they’ll just sterilize the children of poor parents, since the standard has already been set now that children should be held accountable for their parents’ poverty.

“South Carolina again. Is it something in the water?”

No. Actually the water here is pretty good. It’s just the legacy of 400 years of oligarchic rule by the old planter aristocracy. The elite now includes out-of-state lords—many, if not most, of the big old antebellum mansions in Charleston, for instance, are owned by wealthy New Englanders. Greenville is a comfy home for insurance companies.

SC has always been a colony. We’re more like a Caribbean island than the United States.

By the way, the reason Mark Sanford was not impeached and removed from office is because Andre Bauer is gay and everyone knows it. There’s a special bar in downtown Charleston where you can find several regulars who could tell you what he’s like in bed. Local politics is so very local.

Well, no. They’re against any public funding of contraception or even sex ed that includes contraception. So in some ways the GOP is for treating animals better than people.

Is Lt. Gov. Bauer suggesting that we should spay or neuter poor people?

No, he’s suggesting that we let them die or kill them off outright.  After all, contraception and fucking without punishment of pregnancy are huge sins, much worse than letting a fellow human starve to death.  The stupid thing is that poor people actually have fewer children than rich people, on average.  Also, he depends on those poor people and their supposedly out-of-control breeding to create a labor pool that will scrub his toilets and cook his food for next to nothing.

Though this whole thing is phenomenally stupid when you combine the zomg-breeding-poor sentiment with the refusal to subsidize birth control, sterilization, or abortion for the poor when they actually want it.

But contraception leads to the poor having sex with impunity, which makes Jesus cry.

Ten bucks says Rush Limbaugh and Pat Robertson are jockeying to be the first to give Mr. Bauer’s comments a ringing endorsement today.

Once again, Bauer confirms the classic christian belief that one’s economic standing is directly tied to one’s position in the socio-economic hierarchy. The poor are poor because they can’t tell a Pomerol from a Margaux.

I guess Andre Bauer just wanted to explain what true conservative values are. Isn’t that what radio hosts of the extreme right have always hammered into the empty heads of their listeners/followers?
Some more info about Bauer’s faux pass:

—SC Lt. Gov. compares people getting gov’t help to ‘stray animals’ who ‘breed’ because they don’t know better
By Amanda Terkel on Jan 23rd, 2010
ThinkProgress

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(vacation),” 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.’” (HT: Jamie Sanderson)

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

Mr. Bauer made Jon Stewart’s first or second slot.  Not exactly an honor.

His remarks are what people talking about today. It’s quite dismaying to hear those words, but somehow he made a point. Obviously, the good state of South Carolina deserves some better caliber of leadership, and the Republicans in that state, especially after that whole Mark Sanford and Maria Belen Chapur thing, are obviously WAY behind the 8 ball.  However, perhaps Andre Bauer should start updating his resume.  The idea that “poor children are like stray animals” is more than slightly offensive and completely hypocritical – consider this: problem animals are often relocated to give themselves a fresh start. Yet no state government (or the federal one) has considered a public works project to curb joblessness.  You know what would keep people from needing welfare or payday loans, or unemployment? Jobs! (Surprising, huh?)