''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.”
—South Carolina Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer, arguing that government food assistance to lower-income residents, including food stamps or free school lunches, encourages a culture of dependence, Jan 24. 2010
I realize that this is an old quote but I stumbled upon it today and just had to say something, first of all what reasonable person would take advice from a person that isn’t as intelligent as an animal behavior specialist over the psychological ramifications of feeding a stray animal. Personally I am for these types of programs, it makes sense people shouldn’t go hungry at all sometimes its disturbing how many christian politicians are in favor of such repeals, now feeding someone and making sure that no one goes hungry isn’t a religious issue its a human rights issue, I have no problem helping these people, so long as the benefits are reviewed and scrutinized every few months not yearly, I see no issue. To me I see this comment as being a little condescending towards the least affluent.
I think that sometimes people think that atheists don’t care about other people, that we lack moral standing and are apathetic towards our fellow man, Leave your comments below and let me know what you think, please be sure to leave your religious affiliation so that I can tabulate the results and see how atheists and others who may view this blog, feel about the Lt. Gov’s Comments.
I apologize for the short post tonight I have to be up at 7 tomorrow morning so I have to get some sleep with Kali around.
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