NC GOP Senate candidate compares food stamps to slavery
theGRIO REPORT - The Republican, who considers the late, controversial Sen. Jesse Helms an inspiration, calling the program -- which provides food for the poor -- 'goodies'...
Greg Brannon, an aspiring GOP U.S. Senate candidate out out of North Carolina, recently compared food stamps to slavery.
The Republican, who considers the late, controversial Sen. Jesse Helms an inspiration, called the program — which provides food for the poor — “goodies.”
“We’re taking our plunder, that’s taken from us as individuals… and the government is now keeping itself in power by giving these goodies away,” Brannon said in an interview recently rediscovered by Mother Jones.
“The answer is the Department of Agriculture should go away at the federal level. And now 80 percent of the farm bill was food stamps. That enslaves people. What you want to do, it’s crazy but it’s true, teach people to fish instead of giving them fish. When you’re at the behest of somebody else, you are actually a slavery [sic] to them… That kind of charity does not make people freer,” he added.
Brannon is a Tea Party candidate and he has already stirred controversy by addressing a secessionist group last fall.
According to Public Policy Polling he trails his GOP rival for the nomination but leads the Democratic incumbent Sen. Kay Hagan.
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