Reply #29: my letter to Mr. Bauer

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Dear Lt. Gov. Bauer,
I recently read your comments in which you described you grandmother's prohibition against feeding stray animals, and then compared poor human beings to stray animals that should not be fed. I want to applaud you for these comments and thank you for having the courage to say these things, as politically incorrect as they may be. It takes a lot of guts for a politician to make such comments in a state in which over half of the school-age children qualify for free or reduced lunch, and in which about one-quarter of students will drop out before achieving a high school degree.

You were quoted as describing a bar chart that demonstrated that schools with the highest rates of free and reduced-price lunches were also the schools that performed most poorly. I am sure that some liberal smarty-pants will try to explain that the schools that enroll the highest number of children in poverty - and therefore the highest percentages of children qualifying for free and reduced lunch - also receive the lowest levels of funding because of the lower tax revenues in these areas. They will probably also point out that in addition to this difference in equity of school funding, schools serving higher percentages of children in poverty also face obstacles such as a higher percentage of children with special needs. I say balderdash to that kind of liberal claptrap, and assert that recognizing that correlation does not equal causation is some sort of intellectual mind-game that only eggheads play. Those liberals might also point out that a healthy school lunch is associated with higher levels of school success. I say let kids go hungry because hunger is a good motivator for the poor.

Moreover, I wanted to let you know about a bar chart that I saw that demonstrated that the higher the number of fire fighters that are called to a fire the larger the amount of monetary damage that a fire causes - that's right, the more fire fighters, the more damage. Clearly, fire fighters are causing this damage. This is likely because lazy people (probably poor people, who are probably minority people and illegal aliens) are too complacent expecting fire fighters to come and put out fires for them. I think that the number of fire fighters and fire trucks should be reduced, and that in the event of a fire citizens should be required to attach fire hoses to the hydrants themselves. This will result in those people being more careful and avoid having fires in the first place.

I also want to commend you for your courage in coming right out and comparing poor people to stray animals. If you are elected as governor of South Carolina, I implore you to follow this line of reasoning to its logical conclusions and reduce the spread of poverty by treating poor people as we would stray animals, through spaying, neutering, and euthanasia. Also, I think it would be possible to establish a system like the humane society, were poor people could be "adopted" in to good homes. I am sure that there are large land owners and factory owners in South Carolina that could put these people to good use through productive work, and provide them with nutritious food and comfortable shelter in return. It would be important to give these adoptive families the legal ability to restrict the movement of these people, because the ornery poor people would just try to run away if they could. However, if good families were allowed to keep them, they could help them learn rules for good living through strict disciplinary practices. This sort of program would eliminate the need for the USDA and the federal government to pay for children to have a free lunch, while still supporting food prices for large farm owners because the food is still being eaten. In this way you could eliminate poverty and hunger in South Carolina, and get those worthless poor people out there working for their meals. They are probably all minorities and single mothers having babies anyway. As you know, these animal-like "people" can't control their impulses, but if they were placed under the care of good people they could be raised right.

Good luck in these important endeavors.