New Yorks’ Sen. Chuck Schumer played a part in the circumstances that brought down that US Airways plane into the Hudson River. Here’s an excerpt from a 2004 Schumer press release:
US Senator Charles E. Schumer today announced that Congress has passed $200,000 in federal funds for the US Fish and Wildlife Service to implement a Geesepeace program that works to alleviate the Canada geese overpopulation problem that threatens the health of local residents and the environment. Geesepeace is a national non-profit organization that uses non-lethal methods to reduce the number of geese and redirect them to areas where they pose less of a threat to people
That worked really well, didn’t it. I have a better solution. Let some hunters loose to shoot a few thousand of these pests and give them to the homeless for dinner.
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