Filthy piece of shit, Don Young doubles down: Suicides are due to gov't handouts
Rep. Don Young is not backing down from his controversial comments about suicide, criticizing some of the students at Wasilla High School who challenged him and saying that Alaska’s high suicide rate is largely due to government “largesse.”
The Alaska Republican, speaking at a senior center on Wednesday, linked a rise in suicides in the state with government dependence.
“This suicide problem didn’t exist until we got largesse from the government,” Young said at Alaska’s Mat-Su Senior Center, according to audio obtained by the campaign of his Democratic challenger, Forrest Dunbar.
“When people had to work and had to provide and had to keep warm by putting participation in cutting the wood and catching the fish and killing the animals, we didn’t have the suicide problem,” Young continued. “It comes from the largesse of saying you’re not worth anything but you’re going to get something for nothing.”
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The congressman also cited his experience as a former schoolteacher in saying that some of the students at Wasilla High School who spoke out during his speech at the assembly on Tuesday were being “disrespectful.”
“I’m very upset with the school system that would take the side of individuals that are being disrespectful to their fellow students,” he said.
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