GOP Rep. Don Young of Alaska isn't just standing by his assertion to Wasilla High School students that friends and family of suicide victims are to blame because they failed to provide enough support, he's also now adding "government largesse" to the list of things he blames for suicide. Asked about the “lack of support” comment, Young expanded on it and added that suicide in Alaska didn’t exist before “government largesse” gave residents an entitlement mentality, according to an audio recording of his senior center appearance. He also criticized school administrators for supporting students who disrespected him and said he refused to “coddle” them. But Young didn't stop there, instead launching into a tirade against one of the students—a close friend of a classmate who had committed suicide just days earlier—for having dared to disagree with Young's remarks: “And then he had the gall to say suicide is a disease,” Young says in the recording.
Alaska Rep. Young Now Says 'government Largesse' Also To Blame For Suicide
rss@dailykos.com (Jed Lewison), Daily Kos
Thu, 10/23/2014 - 12:30pm
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