Stupid, insensitive politician alert.

[lykomancer]

Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer compared government assistance for low-income families to "feeding 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."



Classism will be the last great -ism to come crashing down, because people are always willing to blame the poor and lower-class for their situation.

"If they just got a job..."
"If they just worked harder..."
"If they focused on getting an education..."
"If they saved some money..."
"If they weren't so lazy..."

NO.
No one deserves to live in poverty.

This isn't a lifestyle choice; this is a systematic failure.

Comments

[hiza-chan.livejournal.com]

Ooh, that's something. I hope he gets a lot of shit for that comment cause that is unbelievably hurtful. I don't think that someone who has had everything handed to them on a fucking PLATTER for their entire fucking life should even be ALLOWED to talk about poverty. Put 'em out on the street for a week, let them worry and panic about how they DON'T HAVE A PLACE TO LIVE and THEN and only then should they be allowed to talk about poverty. *scoffs*

God, I really hate people sometimes.