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Alaska Republican Rep. Don Young, famous for his salty tongue and brusque demeanor, suggested Thursday that if he let loose wolves in some congressional districts, they “wouldn’t have a homeless problem anymore.”

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.”

We sought clarification to ensure we heard correctly. A spokesman for Young said the “analogy was purposely hyperbolic to stress the point that these predators pose serious threats to wildlife management and their listing has damaging impacts to local communities.”

SpottedKitty wrote:

Some people don't realise Jonathan Swift was writing satire when he came up with A Modest Proposal...

Grumman wrote:

SpottedKitty wrote:

Some people don't realise Jonathan Swift was writing satire when he came up with A Modest Proposal...

And Borgholio appears to be top of the list.

Don Young is not suggesting using wolves to end homelessness. He is saying "Protect the wolves? You stupid bastards, wolves eat people!"

General Zod wrote:

Grumman wrote:Don Young is not suggesting using wolves to end homelessness. He is saying "Protect the wolves? You stupid bastards, wolves eat people!"

That doesn't actually help his case, since there's scarcely any verifiable records of wolves attacking humans. It just makes him ignorant instead of a malicious douche.

GuppyShark wrote:Since you've contradicted General Zod, can you provide a source for your assertion that wolves hunt humans for food?

Page 18 wrote:DNA evidence and wolf tracks observed at the scene indicate that two to four wolves were likely involved in the attack. One wolf was an adult female (2010-37) in excellent body condition with no apparent health issues. DNA matching this wolf was most prevalent in the forensic samples. The fate(s) of any other wolves involved in the attack are unknown. Based on the body condition of the wolves culled and on the number of prey species (moose and snowshoe hares) observed in the area, starvation or severe hunger were probably not factors in the attack. However, the
amount of time since the wolves’ last meal is unknown.

Snow track evidence suggests the attack itself was brief, and the deceased was quickly incapacitated. One or two wolves pursued her down the road and attacked while another wolf approached from above the road and intercepted her. Based on evidence in the snow, she died 40 feet from that location.

Depressions in the snow and eyewitness accounts indicated that the body was dragged twice after her death, toward an area with more brush cover. It is possible that the wolves attempted to move her body out of the clearing in response to noise from approaching snowmachines. Her body was moved to its final location after the person guarding her body left the area when he saw a wolf nearby. When a group of residents returned to retrieve the body, it had been moved farther down
the hill to a location with brush cover, and more of it had been consumed.

Grumman wrote:He is saying "Protect the wolves? You stupid bastards, wolves eat people!"

Grumman wrote:My assertion was that wolves have killed humans, not specifically that they were hunted for food.

Napoleon the Clown wrote:Wolves that lack regular contact with humans tend to flee. Even if they're currently eating. There's something about humans that wolves naturally fear

Grumman wrote:

GuppyShark wrote:Since you've contradicted General Zod, can you provide a source for your assertion that wolves hunt humans for food?

My assertion was that wolves have killed humans, not specifically that they were hunted for food. The report on the death of Kenton Joel Carnegie does not appear to be available online, but the one for Candice Berner is.

IN A WORLD ruled by oil and gold, where the sun dares not to show its face for half of the year, one endangered species is unleashed upon another!

[action shots of wolves and homeless people totally ruining each others' weekends... pack tactics + hamstringing, Mad Dog 20/20 molotov cocktails, what-have-you]

Until ONE MAN, raised by the feral dogs of the streets, unites both sides against the common foe...

[flashback footage of the Young Hero running barefoot through snowy alleyways and wrestling with mangy mutts and loving it; getting beat up by the cops and rescued by homeless-people-eating wolves; leading dozens of wolves and hobos on a raid against a guarded mansion and dragging some privileged asshole who signed off on the homeless people get eaten thing in an earlier scene off kicking and screaming]

Rutger Hauer stars in... WILD HUNT.

Grumman wrote: that is still nowhere near as bad as the bullshit Borgholio was trying to pin on him.

“I’d like to introduce them in your district. If I introduced them in your district, you wouldn’t have a homeless problem anymore.”

That headline is either blatantly dishonest or written by an idiot.

hat kind of moron read that comment and concluded he was advocating feeding homeless people to wolves?

Seeing as how his handler had to scramble to backpedal to try and put the "correct" words in his mouth, I'd say that a great many people thought he was serious, or at least wanted to make sure he wasn't.

Or perhaps there's just a legion of dishonest fuckwits.

Borgholio wrote:

Or perhaps there's just a legion of dishonest fuckwits.

So an elected representative said that they should feed homeless people to wolves. Satire or not, that's what he said. And people report that he said they should feed homeless people to wolves.

This is dishonest...how?

Patroklos wrote: Please point to his use of the word "should."

You are being daft here, move on.