Carl Paladino Will Teach Poor People to Stop Being So Dirty‎

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I'll give N.Y. GOP gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino one thing: he isn't afraid to to let the world know what he really thinks.

First, the Republican candidate for governor got caught sending out e-mails to friends and business associates filled with graphic racist images and and hard-core bestiality and pornography in April.

Now the wealthy Buffalo real estate developer is pushing a plan to transform some prisons into camps for welfare recipients, where they would work state jobs, get job training and learn how to bathe.

That's right, classes in "personal hygiene" would be given at Paladino's state-run facilities.

How about some classes in mental hygiene for Paladino, who has the backing of several Tea Party affiliates in New York state?

Paladino faces an uphill fight for the GOP nomination in New York against former U.S. Rep. Rick Lazio. The primary is Sept. 14. Maybe he's trying to get his name in the headlines by any means necessary.

Paladino said his plan is being put forth to help achieve a 20 percent cut in the state budget and a 10 percent income tax cut.

Criticizing Paladino's idea is like shooting fish in a barrel - it's far too easy because it is deplorable on so many levels.

Obviously, his "plan" for welfare recipients raises constitutional issues galore: He basically criminalizes welfare recipients and presumes people on welfare rather live in a prison setting than in their own homes. Not to mention that the personal-bathing habits swipe is gratuitous and mean-spirited.

I wonder if Paladino realizes that his idea that welfare recipients perform some type of work to get their benefits is already a part of federal law?

Paladino's website is called "paladinoforthepeople.com." I wonder how he can be "for the people," when he so brazenly insults "the people" with "plans" like these.

If this is what he thinks about those who are in need of help, especially with the economy being what it has been for the past two years, I can't imagine what he'd have in store for the state of New York.

Polarizing and disrespectful figures such as Paladino need to be showed that just because they are worth $150 million and pledge to spend $10 million in order to win the campaign, they aren't entitled to whatever they want.

If he doesn't respect the very people he intends to govern, he shouldn't get the privilege to run the state. With hope, the people of New York will show Paladino in September what they really think about him. It's only fair.

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