I’m glad I wasn’t the only person who had this thought. Frank Pembleton would never say anything so stupid.
Reminds me for some reason of two from Chris Rock:
[CHRIS ROCK]“Don’t drink that! That’s foster kid juice!”[/CHRIS ROCK]
also
[CHRIS ROCK {on the off-brands of products in poorer neighborhood stores}]“Mama, I didn’t know Nipsey Russell made peanut butter.”
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Well, you gotta remember, this is in South Carolina, where politicians say truly abysmally stupid things on a pretty regular basis. Andre is running for governor this year. He pretty much trashed Mark Sanford when the whole “hiking the Appalachian Trail” thing broke, on Rachel Maddow’s show no less. He is absolutely the reason Sanford is still in office.
The really scary part of what Bauer said was the reaction of The State newspaper’s readership (e.g. cite). WAY too many people supported him and his loathsome statements and decried welfare recipients and the system without knowing the first thing about it. They all just “know” that lazy “welfare queens” are all over the landscape, popping out more “strays” that the “good” people will have to pay for, but none could offer a single cite to support their or Bauer’s assertions (I asked). One poster, a public school teacher, said the “strays” should be “put out of our misery.” :eek:
And the Republican “leadership’s” response has been lukewarm at best; none have condemned his message or offered rebuttals. They agree he probably shouldn’t have used those words necessarily, but the message was probably sound. Yes, these are the Republicans who have been in charge of that shithole state for decades. I think their re-election strategy is “Keep them poor, sick and stupid and they’ll keep voting for us!” This whole episode doesn’t say any good things about the state. So, yes, please, pit away.
And no one in South Carolina is worried that this man will reproduce.
I was just talking to a student who’s from South Carolina and whose brother is a political reporter in Columbia and we were discussing what a debt Alabama and several other states owe S.C. in the past couple of years for trumping our own politician’s dumbass quotes in the national press. (He told me something I didn’t know about Sanford, which was that Appalachian Trail/Argentine Tail woman’s son- who was furious at her for cheating on his father- was responsible for the email leak of Sanford’s e-missives.)
That’s fascinating. I wonder if they have a Geraldo Primaveradero show in Rio.
What he said was ill worded and insulting, but basically he has a point, doesn’t he?
People shouldn’t have kids they can’t afford, in my opinion. Do I want to control people’s birthing? No, but I don’t want to pay for all their brats and the next generation of criminals either. If you’re on welfare, don’t have kids. If you do, then go support yourself.
Sorry if that offends people, but it’s not fair to people who are actually working to have to support more and more parasites. I have my own dependents to support, I don’t want to support theirs as well.
No.
Aside from your cartoonishly bogus perception of the kinds of families that recieve assitance (most of them work.), the kids themselves aren’t to blame, and they’re already born.
There isn’t any welfare anymore, by the way.
Because it’s a MYTH! He doesn’t have a point because it’s NOT true. See the article “Facts don’t back Bauer’s remarks” for a start. He says crap like that to stir up the redneck base in SC and it’s a large contingent that all the Republican candidates for governor are fighting for.
Good God. I weep for the whole country.
Andre Bauer says he is Pro-Life. Which apparently means he is opposed to people having children and not having children.
So I think the only point Bauer has is the one on the top of his head.
The ex middle class . That is who will take the low paying jobs of the future. The poor will be ignored and then hunted.
Not in South Carolina.
I guess the unspoken subtext is that the poor should be sterilized.
Maybe, but I don’t know how many people in Argentina will watch Portuguese programming.
:smack: D’Oh! I meant Buenos Aires, of course.
I’ll come in again…
This article was in the Greenville paper on Saturday, as well as the Myrtle Beach paper. I expect no one will listen. From what I am hearing around me, Bauer’s chances of election are sound.
Sometimes I like living here. Other times I wonder what the hell I’m doing here. 