Republicanism

Taegan Goddard’s quote of the day is, perhaps, the clearest expression of Republican values I’ve ever heard:

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.

That’s South Carolina Lt. Governor Andre Bauer. Actually, I think he’s misattributing this parable to his grandmother. I’m pretty sure Jesus is the one who said that we should starve poor people to death.

Comments

[Casey]

It wasn't Jesus, but Ben Franklin:

"I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it."

[Mxrk]

Well, now you've lowered my opinion of old Ben. Thanks. For the record, he also said that young men should marry older women because women age from the top down and "covering all above with a Basket, and regarding only what is below the Girdle, it is impossible of two Women to know an old from a young one." So...there.

But it was only Jesus who said, in Matthew, Mark, and Luke, "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God." So I'm willing to put an (R) next to Franklin, if you'll put a (D) next to Jesus.

[michael]

i'm willing to put a ™ next to both of them.