Canna Sylvan
Well-Known Member
1) JFK started the whole dismantling of mental health care system.Reagan did two truly reprehensible things:
1) already as governor, he tore the heart out of the mental healthcare system. A massive failure of human compassion for an expensive, unproductive segment of society, and he saw them only as that. For the rest of us, it's a lesson in duplicitous ethics.
He went on to do same for the nation. Who knows how much the "savings" were compensated by higher police and medical costs for the wave of homeless nutters?
2) he made like a kid with a Mastercard with that deficit spending. He took the inspiration from those financiers who were buying and dismantling companies in order to raid the pension fund. For Ron, it was the SS fund, which he declared as "borrowable against". Oh such a bad idea, and we're in it to our necks as a result.
And I'll wager that he chuckled about the irony of it all right up until the day he died. cn
2) That's FDR's fault, SS shouldn't even exist in the first place. That fucker was our Marx loving asshole.
So I guess Reagan was faking the whole Alzheimer's and dementia thing?