Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska) suggested Thursday that the solution to homelessness is wolves. Young made the comment during a House Natural Resources Committee hearing during an exchange with Interior Secretary Sally Jewell. He was arguing that gray wolves should be taken off the endangered species list, criticizing the National Park Service and his congressional colleagues who seek to protect the animals.
“How many of you have got wolves in your district? None. None. Not one,” Young said, calling 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 added. “I’d like to introduce them in your district. If I introduced them in your district, you wouldn’t have a homeless problem anymore.”
Why do people make remarks that savage the weakest and helpless of our society. I think Congressman Young has hit a new low. I thought that suggesting that immigrants should be dog food was low.(See our beginnings tab)
In the race to the bottom a new nadir has been reached by Congressman Young who suggested that he would introduce wolves into someone’s district to thin out the homeless population. Does Congress not censure these people? What an ignorant, grotesque, evil suggestion. Decent human beings don’t think like this man does.
I know it’s a waste of time explaining this because he is ‘teh evilz GOPz’ but it should be obvious to anyone capable of understanding English that Young was talking about how the grey wolf is a dangerous predator.
A bunch of congressmen who don’t actually have grey wolves in their district were complaining. Young was clearly pointing out that if you had a dangerous predator in your district attacking your citizens you might have a different position on the issue.
Young’s point seems to be that the grey wolf doesn’t need protection. We need protection from the grey wolf.
Anyone who things Young was even jokingly suggesting introducing wolves to attack the homeless needs to take elementary school English comprehension again.
Can you provide a link about your “immigrants should be dog food” claim? I googled “Rep Young Immigrants Dog Food” and the only link that was close was this page. Surely there is something on the Internet to back up that quote.
I left the resource. You can see it in the first tab on this blog. Elena presented to the BOCS.
Furby, knock if off. Young is famous for making bat-sh!t crazy remarks.
As a person who regularly contributes to saving the wolf, you should know that the wolf is dangerous to livestock populations. In fact, in western regions, ranchers have been compensated for their losses. I think he very much meant what he said about the homeless. Vulnerable people…you get it?
Imagine if there were wolf packs (or mountain lions a la suburban Los Angeles) hanging around the woods where the PWC homeless camps are. No, scratch that. There probably wouldn’t be any homeless camps in the woods.
I really don’t think Young was suggesting we feed the homeless to the wolves. It’s the wolves he’s after. He wants to get that “I love the wolves” thing under stronger control. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you always hear the challenge to count the number of times wolves have attacked humans. So, go let your little kids (along with your pets and livestock) ramble around in the Alaska woods where a hungry pack is hunting. Test the theory.
I am a wolf hugger. The wolf is one of my totem animals. Now that we have established that disclaimer,
why is it necessary to kill wolves? I haven’t followed his crusade but…I know what I heard and the remark was insensitive at best.
Huffpost: What a biased and lying opening line.
@Furby McPhee
Search the 9500 Liberty website if you want to find the dog food reference. It’s still there as a screen shot in one speaker’s comments to the BOCS. Gutless Greg took down the original post on BVBL – but not until it had many comments and made it into people’s files.
Ok, I’m confused. Are you saying that Don Young said immigrants should be dog food, or that someone else did? From what you wrote, it sounded like you were saying Don Young said it. If you meant that someone else said it, I don’t doubt somewhere, someone may have said it. I just don’t care.
It’s still obvious you are being deliberately obtuse to create a false moral outrage over Don Young’s comments about the wolves. But it’s against a republican, so anything is fair game, right?
Are you going to do the same thing over Steve King’s “pick of the litter” comments? (Which I only discovered when looking for info on if Don Young made the dog food comments.)
No. Don Young did not say that immigrants should be dog food. I was not deliberately trying to be obtuse. Actually I could say the same thing about you. Everyone on this blog I thought knew about our roots and about Elena’s presentation to the board.
I said what Don Young said reminded me of the immigrant remark or something to that effect. Dehumanizing remarks –you know…reducing human beings to being animal food.
“I am a wolf hugger”
Blogmeister, I do hope you meant that figuratively. And how do you feel about coyotes? They howl pretty good too.
Wolves can help maintain nature’s balance in the wild. If only we could teach them to respect the boundaries of the parks like Yellowstone and stop eating the neighboring flocks.
Coyotes are also moon-howlers but they aren’t my totem animal. No special animal spirit. They are sort of the starlings of the dog world. I haven’t really wolf hugged.
buffalo seem to do a lot better job of watching boundaries than wolves do. I guess they get tired of a diet of elk and mule deer and probably want a calf or lamb for dinner.
I think Young should be fed to the wolves. What a vile and repulsive thing to say
Why bring up the homeless at all?