GOP Rep. To Colleagues: Wolves Can Solve Your Homelessness Problems

[Galraedia]

Source: Talking Points Memo

Rep. Don Young (R-AK) offered a way to solve homelessness in his colleagues' congressional districts: wolves.

Young, speaking at a hearing of the House Natural Resources Committee on Thursday, made the comments while he was arguing that gray wolves should be taken off the endangered species list.

"How many of you have got wolves in your district? None. None. Not one," Young said. He called the gray wolf a "predator."

"We've got 79 congressmen sending you a letter, they haven't got a damn wolf in their whole district," Young said. "I'd like to introduce them in your district. If I introduced them in your district, you wouldn't have a homeless problem anymore."

Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/don-young-wolves-homeslessness

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

1. He wants the wolves to kill the homeless, and someone needs to - never mind, nobody cares

[AndyTiedye]

7. While the Notion of Gray Wolves Feasting on Teabagger Republican Legislators Instead Has Some Appeal

…such would not be a healthy diet for the wolves, far too high in fat among other things.

[sadoldgirl]

2. What does he imply with this?

Too many wolves in his state causes people to move
to Kansas or New Mexico?

Idiot!

[ReRe]

3. That is disgusting

What a POS. What I want to know is if there were any Democrats in the room who called him out on his words.

[jmowreader]

4. Wotta maroon!

Gee Donny, explain why Kootenai County, Idaho, has both wolves and homeless people.

[erronis]

5. Some of these buggers will do anything for a little limelight

I hope his family tree didn't include the apes (which mine did.)

[tclambert]

6. He literally wants to throw poor people to the wolves?

Zero compassion.

[christx30]

10. Sounds like a fairly Modest Proposal to me n/t

[tclambert]

16. Jonathan Swift's was a little more practical.

It didn't waste the extra protein on wolves. Poor people would sell their babies for rich people to eat. A delicacy for the elite who think veal isn't cruel enough, and a money-making scheme for the chronically unemployed. A win-win situation!

(I'm sure Rep. Young would object to eating our current population of homeless people. Not on humanitarian grounds, but because he would find them unattractive and unappetizing.)

[Historic NY]

8. Lets just start eating the congress...

lots of old hens and limp roosters there.

[Blue State Bandit]

9. PA Governor Tom Wolf has family running for office in Arkansas?

No... wait...

[Octafish]

11. NAZI

Don Young uses his public office to openly recommend the extermination of the poor.

It's not just his Democratic "colleagues" sitting around him who should be furious.

[dinger130]

12. My son is mentally ill and

has lived on the streets. There are no words for how I feel about this comment.

[candelista]

13. There is a fine line between right wing politics and savagery.

Rep. Don Young (R-AK) crossed it.

[vkkv]

14. If there are NO WOLVES in 79 Alaskan districts, then wolves are UNDER-POPULATED

And still need protections..

The homeless? No words about protecting them..

[daleo]

15. He sounds like the predator.