South Carolina Lt. Governor Andre Bauer (R-S.C.) introduced a new line of reasoning into the contentious immigration debate last week, blaming "flat-out lazy" people for allowing illegal immigrants to thrive in his state.
"The real problem is the work force," Bauer said during the first Republican gubernatorial debate on Friday. "The problem is we have a give-away system that is so strong that people would rather sit home and do nothing than do these jobs."
"Laziness is not a disability," Bauer continued. "There are a lot of people that are flat-out lazy and they are using up the goods and services we have in this state."
(From my understanding Temporary Aid for Needy Families (TANF) Welfare & Food Stamps are funded
by The Federal Government, not the State level. This makes Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer not only a scapegoating bigot but a Shameless LIER as well).
Lt. Governor Bauer received national attention earlier this year when he compared people receiving public assistance to stray animals, and then delivered a half-hearted apology.
Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer-R:
Bauer finished last place in a recent straw poll of South Carolina Republicans, getting only 10 percent of the vote for GOP gubernatorial nomination. Rep. Gresham Barrett won that poll with 37 percent of the vote.
What is welfare?
"The real problem is the work force," Bauer said during the first Republican gubernatorial debate on Friday. "The problem is we have a give-away system that is so strong that people would rather sit home and do nothing than do these jobs."
"Laziness is not a disability," Bauer continued. "There are a lot of people that are flat-out lazy and they are using up the goods and services we have in this state."
(From my understanding Temporary Aid for Needy Families (TANF) Welfare & Food Stamps are funded
by The Federal Government, not the State level. This makes Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer not only a scapegoating bigot but a Shameless LIER as well).
Lt. Governor Bauer received national attention earlier this year when he compared people receiving public assistance to stray animals, and then delivered a half-hearted apology.
Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer-R:
"We have a problem of dependency which is getting worse instead of better. People collecting welfare with no intention with no intention of ever getting off the government gravy train. We don't mind a hand up, but we can't continue to have generational handouts. Especially when the state's considering furloughing teachers, and releasing prisoners early. Taxpayers have had enough. Somebody has to have the courage to speak out, to break the cycle of dependency. Speaking out about these programs may not be politically correct, but it's the right thing to do."Here are his earlier remarks that sparked the controversy:
"My grandmother was not a highly educated woman, but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals," Bauer told a an audience in South Carolina last month. "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 finished last place in a recent straw poll of South Carolina Republicans, getting only 10 percent of the vote for GOP gubernatorial nomination. Rep. Gresham Barrett won that poll with 37 percent of the vote.
What is welfare?
'Not Welfare'
Social Security. Bauer says the program that pays monthly cash benefits to retirees, orphans, widows and the disabled is not considered welfare.
Unemployment. Bauer says the monthly payments now being paid to 264,452 jobless South Carolinians are not welfare. South Carolina has the nation's sixth-highest jobless rate, 12.2 percent.
Welfare
"Welfare." What is commonly referred to as welfare - monthly cash payments to the poor- is now the Temporary Aid for Needy Families (TANF). It is time-limited assistance - 24 months over a 10-year period - that now requires work from able-bodied recipients. A mother with two children receives a maximum payment of $271 a month to pay for rent, utilities, clothing and all other needs except food, according to the state Department of Social Services. Bauer has decried paying for "children having children." But minors who are parents are ineligible for aid. Guardians of minor parents can, however, get assistance.
Food stamps. The program benefits the disabled and the working poor. Roughly half of all recipients are children. Sixty-one percent of S.C. recipients are off the program within one year, according to DSS.
School lunches. Bauer compared giving poor schoolchildren free lunches to feeding stray animals. Bauer wants strings attached to the benefits, such as mandatory parent-teacher conference attendance. More than half of S.C. students qualify for free or reduced-priced meals.
SOURCE: S.C. Department of Social Services
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