South Carolina Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer (R) has allowed that “maybe the stray animals wasn’t the best metaphor” to use when discussing poor people. However, he also stood by his call to end the “culture of dependency” that he says government assistance has created.Last Friday, Bauer told an audience in South Carolina that his grandmother told him “as a small child to quit feeding stray animals. You know why? Because they breed.”
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