Carolina's lieutenant governor, Andre Bauer: right idea, wrong wording

OK, going to get a little serious here for a second... Known for putting his foot in his mouth for speaking his mind... Andre Bauer has created another controversy by saying the following facts: "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."

He was perhaps not tactful, but equally truthful.  A rarity for a politician!  One of the BIGGEST problems of this country, like it or not, are the drains on our system by people who get on public assistance and NEVER get off it. These systems were designed decades ago to help people out only temporarily-- not for life. Trouble is, when more and more and more people are on them, WHO IS LEFT TO PAY?   You and me.

Now before you go and get all huffy-- consider that 1 in 4 kids are getting food stamps.  25% of the money used to feed your kids is going to someone else's kid.  Think about that.  And a recent study determined that more than half of all kids will someday be on foodstamps.

Of course this guy is getting roasted for putting it the way he did, but hey it's the truth. His critics are basically saying that it's OK for people to be on welfare all their lives, and kick out as many kids as they can. Most sane, middle-class families know that is wrong. Too bad our leader's don't!

I am not against tempoarily helping people get back on their feet (and getting back to work), but U.S. welfare was designed to enslave people, not empower them.  That has been a popular notion for quite some time.  So who are these new idiots who disagree with that?  If it is such a positive thing, why are more people on it permanently year after year?

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