Wolves are the solution to homeless people

[Archbob]

We, finally have a solution for ending homelessness, wolves:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/...ess_n_6811808.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000013

“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.”

So, is this plan to end homelessness good or bad? Does it have its merits?

 

[hobbsyoyo]

He got 79 problems but a wolf ain't one.

 

[sophie]

Wow that rebranding is clearly working. I can see the Republicans really DO care about poor people now.

 

[Zkribbler]

It shows Young knows nothing of North American wolves. Only the ones in Quebec will actually attack humans. Elsewhere nope; they give humans a wide berth.

He also knows nothing about homeless. Most homeless people shelter in cities. I lived in Los Angeles most of my life. Never once did I see a pack of wolves hunting along Wilshire Blvd.

 

[gay_Aleks]

Either HuffPo is turning into the Onion, or GOP has gone down a long, long road with seemingly no end.

 

[sophie]

It shows Young knows nothing of North American wolves. Only the ones in Quebec will actually attack humans. Elsewhere nope; they give humans a wide berth.

He also knows nothing about homeless. Most homeless people shelter in cities. I lived in Los Angeles most of my life. Never once did I see a pack of wolves hunting along Wilshire Blvd.

That's because they haven't been introduced here yet. Clearly the Alaskans are on to something here. I can see no other reason why Alaska would have a small homeless population.

 

[Tigranes]

Wolves are more family oriented, more community oriented, more compassionate, and much much more intelligent than Don Young !

 

[FriendlyFire]

crane5
2:40 PM EST

Finally: the GOP gives us some specifics about their alternative health insurance plan.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

This only works in Alaska because the modern wolf prefers pre-packaged frozen dinners. Actually running down homeless people would be considered hopelessly old fashioned.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Until it's seen as a trendy alternative to jogging.

 

[Zelig]

I don't think wolves really breed quickly enough to feed all of the homeless.

 

[FriendlyFire]

So, is this plan to end homelessness good or bad? Does it have its merits?

Need more wolves.

In 2008, Alaska ranked tenth among the 50 states in concentration of homeless people, with 0.24 percent of the total state estimated to be homeles (Table 1). Oregon was number one with 0.54 percent, Nevada number two at 0.48 percent, Hawaii was number three at 0.47 percent, and California was fourth ranked with 0.43 percent. Homelessness in the U.S. is concentrated in urban areas. But from September 2007 to September 2008, the number of homeless nationally in suburban and rural areas rose from 23 percent of the homeless population to 32 percent.

http://justice.uaa.alaska.edu/forum/26/2summer2009/b_homelessness.html

 

[Kyriakos]

Cultural reasons make it imperative to re-introduce a population of Lernea Hydra too

 

[Kozmos]

I actually had a similar idea to introduce jaguars into my country because people there are getting too relaxed and happy. It would solve underage drinking in parks, homeless people and bring down needless overcrowding.

 

[cybrxkhan]

This only works in Alaska because the modern wolf prefers pre-packaged frozen dinners. Actually running down homeless people would be considered hopelessly old fashioned.

Well, it seems like a lot of these young, liberal, entitled, spoiled wolves are abandoning the traditional values that have kept the wolf species strong for the materialism of their generation. How will these youngsters survive in an increasingly harsh world, where wolves are being threatened by human extremists?

 

[Crackerbox]

Documentable wolf attacks on humans are pretty rare buthey do happen in North America. Up until the 1980s it was thought to be an urban myth with vague stories of it happening, but that link should tell you it's a possibility.

What's far more common are feral dog bites due to people releasing their dogs when they can no longer afford to feed them.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Alternative plan: bring in dingos from Australia.

 

[Borachio]

The solution to the lack of homeless people in rural areas is plain:

More urban wolves. And they should probably be equiped with automatic hunting rifles.

 

[gay_Aleks]

Wait, isn't that what Donald Trump does in his spare time? Packs a shotgun and starts hunting the poor and homeless?

 

[Crackerbox]

The Homeless

1. Jobs. A lot of economic insecurity has vastly increased homelessness by families. We have many who cruise around Walmart parking lots due to lighting and activity and access to bathrooms to wash up. This a very troubling sign and often it happens because of sudden job loss, the end of one of several part-time jobs, a sudden expense like a visit to the ER, etc.

2. Mental illness. Many of the homeless have deep persistent issues with schizophrenia and pharmaceutical compliance. They hate their medicine as it makes them feel off and have negative side effects. The issues of maintaining a therapeutic level drop and symptoms arise which snowballs to worse compliance. The original homeless issue in the seventies was caused by the closing of state mental institutions and caused an exodus to the urban areas. Today due to panhandling, the homeless tend to congregate in urban areas and will even move around based upon things like festival time to increase the chances of getting change.

3. Drug/alcohol abuse. We're not taking this issue seriously. People think it's the norm to experiment, get addicted, lose the support of their family, get kicked out, fall prey to pimps, etc.

4. Homelessness in the youth especially the gay/lesbian community. Many of these folks are abused by parents or foster parents. A new marriage in which a step-parent begins abusing the teen, subsequently ends up in them running away. A low sense of self-worth and a lack of loving supportive parents and family in homosexual youth ends up making them flee. Again, they fall prey to drug addiction, prostituion, and disease. The incident rate of suicide is extremely high for this segment and it's tragic.

5. Veterans. While we had a large contingent of Vietnam Veterans in previous years with all manner of PTSD issues. After the return of so many veterans from the Middle East due to cutbacks, many of the new homeless are young men and women who formerly had a very regimented disciplined life but due to economic insecurity or PTSD or both...end up homeless. Many cannot find work. Some were injured and the backlog at the Veteran Administration to pay them for it is hopelessly backlogged.

It's not a laughing matter but a terrible epidemic due to the faltering of the American economy. When the economy is shaky then donations drop for nonprofits. Corporate sponsorship drops too. Do a search for tent cities and you'll see brave tireless volunteers scrounging for resources and funds.