Now, I think South Carolina is a great place, probably overall the nicest place I have lived.  Although not natives, my parents and children have made it their home.  Reader Kevin shares this link which serves to remind that historically SC has had some peculiar ideas on certain issues.  Now, I ain’t sayin’ this is just about race because white folks can be poor too, but the attitude expressed by the Lt Governor does make you wonder.

Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer has compared giving people government assistance to “feeding stray animals.”

“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,” Bauer said.

Bauer later Friday told The Greenville News he wasn’t saying people on government assistance “were animals or anything else.”

“You see, for the first time in the history of this country, we’ve got more people voting for a living than we do working for a living.”

Later in his speech, Bauer said, “I can show you a bar graph where free and reduced lunch has the worst test scores in the state of South Carolina,” adding, “You show me the school that has the highest free and reduced lunch, and I’ll show you the worst test scores, folks. It’s there, period.

“So how do you fix it? Well you say, ‘Look, if you receive goods or services from the government, then you owe something back.'”

Bauer said there are no “repercussions” from accepting government assistance.

There are clearly repercussions for electing idiots to high office.  As all Americans are becoming painfully aware.