Alaska's Rep. Don Young: Use Wolves to Fix Homelessness

Alaska Representative Don Young (R) has figured out how to fix the societal problem of homelessness. Feed the homeless to the wolves:

The strange comment was made during a halting five-minute exchange with Interior Secretary Sally Jewell during a House Natural Resources Committee hearing on her agency’s budget. He accused her and her department of making decisions without consulting the states they’d affect. 

Young, who supports taking gray wolves off the endangered species list, mocked a letter 79 members of Congress sent urging Jewell to protect the gray wolf population. (In Alaska, for what it’s worth, you can hunt wolves.) 

“How many of you have got wolves in your district?” he asked. “None. None. Not one.” 

“They haven’t got a damn wolf in their whole district,” Young continued. “I’d like to introduce them in your district. If I introduced them in your district, you wouldn’t have a homeless problem anymore.” 

Rep. Young later claimed that he was just trying to explain through hyperbole that predator animals have damaging effects on local communities.


 Of course, the reverse is also true…