On January 24, 2010, Andre Bauer, the Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina said out loud and into a microphone at a public event: “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.”
I wonder if when he was in school he was assigned: A Modest Proposal for preventing the children of poor people in Ireland, from being a burden on their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the publick. by Dr. Jonathan Swift which was published in the year 1729.
If he read it, I wonder if the current lieutenant governor of the state of South Carolina, would recognize the text as satire.
Somehow I doubt it.
He also seems to believe that, since schools with poor test scores are the same schools with high numbers of kids eligible for free lunch, test performance will improve if the free food is removed. Just look at the test performance of the children at schools where nobody needs free lunch, their scores are very high.