Andre Bauer's disgusting guest column in local paper.

(This really ticked me off yesterday.)

February 7, 2010
Andre Bauer: Benefits from welfare programs mount up

By Andre Bauer
What we call welfare is not a single benefit as much as a series of uncoordinated programs offered by numerous state and federal agencies. This web of public assistance does not include business, church, community or charity efforts.

When we say the word welfare, we primarily think of the Department of Social Services (DSS) Family Independence program, which in 1995 began limiting the time families could draw cash benefits and began tying that assistance to training and job searches. Here are several other forms of public assistance:

• Food stamps from the Department of Agriculture, with eligibility verified by DSS.
• Housing/rental assistance from the State Housing and Development Board and local housing authorities.
• Medicaid health care from the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).
• Child care through the DSS.
• Women, Infants and Children (WIC) supports from the Department of Health and Environmental Control.
• Subsidized school lunches from the Department of Education.
• Earned Income Tax Credits from the IRS.
• LIHEAP energy assistance through the Governor’s Office and community action agencies.
• Transportation from DSS, DHHS and the Office on Aging.

Bottom line is that although welfare reform reduced “welfare” dependency, a great deal of it is now diffused and masked within other larger social welfare programs. This was the exact point made by Douglas J. Besharov of the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research in a New York Times article.

(snip)

Many of the critics are offended because they believe that I am a privileged, born-with-a-silver-spoon lawyer. The truth could not be more different. I am the product of a broken home who qualified for, but rejected, the free lunch program. As a child, I chose to cut grass and rake leaves, dig gardens, paint, and do whatever chores my neighbors would pay me to do so that my sister and I could pay for our lunches. (That’s not how I heard it on AP.) I know the meaning of sweat labor and I have been a proud businessman since middle school. I am not a lawyer. I graduated from the University of South Carolina while running my business.
(snip)


http://www.greenvilleonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=20102070311

(Would he be happy if nobody got so much as a dollar of public assistance?)

i guess not everyone in south carolina thinks his way.....

The Defense Budget.

How many corporations in the United States would go belly up tomorrow without a guaranteed flow of billions of dollars every month from the U.S. Treasury? And what do we get for this incredible expenditure? Bullets, bombs, guns and rockets that don't get one person to work, don't reduce the size of one classroom, don't get one more meal into a hungry child, and don't get one more sick person in to see a doctor.

You want to talk about dependency? What would Xe (ne Blackwater) do if it wasn't for a constant infusion of taxpayer money? Could McDonnell-Douglas compete in the free market without enormous taxpayer subsidies? And we spend more on these welfare queens in a week than we do on all those programs you listed do in a year.

You have a very limited vision, Mr. Bauer. I wonder why that is?

Their "inspirational stories" make me want to vomit.

when it comes to understanding why and how some people still need help and cannot "pull themselves up by their own bootstraps." They figure if THEY or THEIR PARENTS or THEIR GRANDPARENTS did it, EVERYBODY can and should be able to do it. Regardless of any extenuating circumstances.

...what he writes?

Oh, I see... He's that "stray animals who should not be fed" guy from South Carolina.
How could this column possibly tick you off?
That's like getting mad at the dog for barking.
Of course he's going to write shit like this.
He's got an agenda.

He is runnibg for something .. probably governor. Actually, South Carolina deserves him (I hate to say that since I live in SC).

of Rugged Individualism. Unless you're not a rugged individualist, in which case you better accept your role as a slave, or commit suicide.

"The system works for ME; if it doesn't for you then GFY."