Stupid (and Vile) Quote of the Day: Anti-poor people inhumanity reaches up to government officials, apparently

Andre “starve-the-poor” Bauer …

It would seem the bigotry towards the impoverished seeps everywhere, including high up in the government. Here is what Andre Bauer, lieutenant governor for South Carolina (and candidate for governor), had to say about poor people and his solution for eradicating the problem (though not in the way you or I might think):

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.

If it’s not selfish lawyers who want those pesky poor people taken away from around his business, it’s heartless candidates for state governor who advocate that we basically let ’em all starve out of existence.

Really, people, your compassion is a beautiful thing.

(via @todayspolitics)