Yesterday, Meteor Blades posted a comment by South Carolina's Republican Lieutenant Governor Andrew Bauer comparing the school lunch program and other public assistance to "feeding stray animals...because they breed."
Amazingly, Bauer is continuing to defend his shocking comparison, saying that "what I was trying to talk about was a dependence culture, and that just like when you feed animals, you create a dependency."
Listen to audio of Bauer's original comments and video of his defense here:
Bauer is writing off criticism of his comments as "political correctness," but this has nothing to do with political correctness. It has everything to do with basic human decency. And when you say that we should let poor people go hungry because otherwise they will "breed," you are failing that test of basic human decency.
Bauer is a candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor in South Carolina. Given the GOP's lurch to the right, I'd be stunned if this didn't help him in the primary. But in a state where more than half the children in schools receive some form of school lunch assistance, it gives Democrats a potent issue should be make it to the general.