Yeah, I only wish this were a joke thread:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_lt_gov_do ... p_the_poor
This piece of human scum has just made a series of filthy, sick suggestions about the people in America who are losing their jobs. Here's what he said about people on unemployment-government assistance:
"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 when controversy errupted, here's what he said in defense of himself:
Bauer said Monday that he regrets his choice of words but that government should expect welfare recipients to try to better themselves. He wants to require them to take drug tests and attend parent-teacher conferences if they have children in school. (from the Yahoo! News article above)
Not only did he suggest that people who receive unemployment checks will never try to find work again and that they will try to raise families to live off welfare, he also says he believes most of them are using illegal drugs and the ones who do have children are either raising idiots or don't care about education. Sure he said what we all know: a person in a bad place in their life should get themselves together. But, he's damn insinuating an awful lot and making radically unsubstantiated claims about the majority of the working class in America who are having trouble getting jobs or keeping jobs.
Can you believe there are people like that in our U.S. government? God knows, there are people who are even worse. But, what can we do to get them out of any and all offices they hold? I want everyone to know that garbage like this shouldn't be allowed to hold positions of any kind of authority. At least until they receive some education themselves. Before they open their big, fat, privilaged, phony mouths- they should at least know what they're saying.