While the following is a re-post of a comment I left on DailyKos, I first want to make the observation that the school lunch programs, which feed the children of poor people for free, provide a constant object of antagonism for people who prefer to think that poverty is tangible evidence that some people are just naturally inferior. Instead of concluding, from the evidence of the off-spring of poor people achieving significant academic and athletic success, that these are the consequences of being well fed, some people prefer to write off such achievements to preferential treatment (affirmative action) and free lunches rewarding laziness. That Senators Landrieu, DeMint and Graham have used such verbiage in connection with providing adequate health care and medical services is not co-incidental. They all subscribe to the belief that ALL social benefits have to be deserved. After all, if you can't condition rewards/bribes on "good" behavior, how do you exercise control? Government BY the people--i.e. popular government--is a nightmare and fills them with fear.

What Andre Bauer said:

“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,” Bauer said.

My response:

Typical--blame the woman. We have no evidence that she taught him to equate humans with domestic animals. However, it's telling because that has been the conservative agenda--to domesticate other people and make them exploitable commodities. That's behind the pejorative designation of the American people as "consumers." It represents a basic attitude that most people are worth less and accounts for the steady effort to replace labor (what people, especially women put forth) with things (robotic machines).

That we are confronting an overload of things (market saturation is what it's called) is to be resolved by making things less reliable and permanent and sending them to the incinerator or dump.

The really unique attribute of humans is that some of them seem intent on killing off or depriving people of things they don't even want for themselves. Most organisms kill to eat; some humans kill just for the hell of it.