So WHY Exactly Is The Far Right Is Against Social Programs? South Carolina Lt. Governor Speaks Hard Truth.
South Carolina Lt. Governor Andre Bauer, who hopes to succeed fellow Republican Mark Sanford as his state’s governor, drew a comparison between government help for poor people and “feeding stray animals” – who, he noted, “breed.”
Bauer said he “can show you a bar graph where free and reduced lunch has the worst test scores in the state of South Carolina.”
“My grandmother was not a highly educated woman, but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals,” Bauer said during a town hall meeting, as the Greenville News reported.
“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.”
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CBS News
Comparison betweeen poor people and 'feeding stray animals… who will continue to breed.' — http://bit.ly/bogLUB
I do not agree with the analogy but there is a good point in there somwhere.
It’s amazing how much social ideas and expectations have changed in the past 100 years. Political correctness, etc.
Check out these quotes I found from Theodore Roosevelt when he was president:
“I have not been able to think out any solution of the terrible problem offered by the presence of the Negro on this continent, but of one thing I am sure, and that is that inasmuch as he is here and can neither be killed nor driven away, the only wise and honorable and Christian thing to do is to treat each black man and each white man strictly on his merits as a man, giving him no more and no less that he shows himself worthy to have.”
“I wish very much that the wrong people could be prevented entirely from breeding; and when the evil nature of these people is sufficiently flagrant, this should be done. Criminals should be sterilized and feeble-minded persons forbidden to leave offspring behind them.”
The reason the conservatives do not like social programs is because they are only interested in money. As far as they are concerned this is their country, they stole it fair and square from Native Americans, and the resources here are theirs. Any program they perceive diverts money away from them and two the general public is perceived as lost to them, and loss causes stress. To their way of thinking social programs slow wealth building and is thus un-American, and a threat to freedom and other American ideals. There is a long behavioral argument involving Skinner’s and Pavlov’s classical conditioning as well as Hopeful’s conservation of resources model of stress which lead to world we observe today—but the bottom line is that conservatives look at the poor working class in essentially the same way the southern plantation owners viewed the black slave. And so the Ivy league Mafia does not do not really care about them as long as they keep working and supply them with wealth, and rarely sit still when programs arise that seek to distribute the wealth they consider theirs. They upper crust of the two Americas some politicians argue exist today, is a parasitic aristocracy, we are merely cattle to be bled for their sustenance.