My grandmother was not a highly educated woman,...

“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.”

André Bauer, South Carolina Lieutenant Governor (currently campaigning for governor), giving his opinion on South Carolina’s free and reduced-cost school lunch program, quoted in Nathaniel Cary, “Needy ‘owe something back’ for aid,” The Greenville News / TheState.com (Jan. 23, 2010). (via nbr)

Lt. Gov. Bauer speaks the secret underlying philosophy of South Carolina politics and, in fact, much of South Carolina culture. Perhaps one of the reasons that corporations have been granted the civil rights of humans is that so many humans in power share the values of corporations.

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