That's the advice of South Carolina's Lt. Governor, Andre Bauer, who recently likened hungry children to stray animals in a speech about people on government assistance.

"My grandmother was not a highly educated woman, but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals," Mr. Bauer said at a town hall meeting last week in Fountain Inn, South Carolina. "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's gaffe makes fellow South Carolinan Joe Wilson's "You lie!" exclamation at Barack Obama, during one of the president's speeches about health care, sound like a Hallmark greeting card. The ignorance spewing from Bauer's mouth in this speech is stupefying. The murmurs of agreement from his audience are downright scary.

Mr. Bauer, you say that political correctness is killing our country. I say that meal assistance programs in America's schools are intended to fill the bellies of kids whose families have too little money to do so themselves. Life isn't fair, but this is one of the few ways that the United States can level the playing field, at least a little, in hopes of giving all children the opportunity to succeed.

What's worse? Bauer is vying for the Republican gubernatorial nomination, and this speech was part of his campaign. Oh, sweet jiminy.

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