[Fishtalk]

I always heard it was Ronald Reagan what sent all the mentally ill into the streets.

It was the liberals?

I did read One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest....well at the time I thought it was just so darling...the mean “system” giving perfectly normal but thinkingoutsidethebox people lobotomies.

Well dag, two other books my young liberal self once believed as true...THE UGLY AMERICAN...hell I even wrote President Kennedy asking how to join the Peace Corps after I read this tome about unused expressways in Cambodia as old Cambodian women swept with brooms worn down to nubs.

And of course....Carson’s SILENT SPRING...oh how I wept for the raptors and their fragile eggs that would not bear the weight of their incubating mothers.

Hey....it’s why I’m so smart now...I was once one of them.

But serious, I always heard Ronald Reagan put all the crazy people on the street.

[kalee]

It happened under Reagan but it was pushed by mental health activists who wanted the stigma removed from mental illness and mentally ill people to be mainstreamed back into society.
In other words the libs set the agenda, got what they wanted then blamed Reagan, same old same old.

[GOPJ]

...Carson’s SILENT SPRING...oh how I wept for the raptors and their fragile eggs that would not bear the weight of their incubating mothers.

That's a great example - millions of people ( men, women and yes, even children) have died from mosquito born illnesses so bird eggs 'might' not be as thin? Really, the research on this one was as thin as the research on the Population Bomb, The Club of Rome, Global Warming, Global Freezing, Nuclear Winter, etc, etc.

Then again, how can a person balance the misery inflicted on millions of people who live in the tropics compared to some American liberal feeling good about himself?

[GOPJ]

...Carson’s SILENT SPRING...oh how I wept for the raptors and their fragile eggs that would not bear the weight of their incubating mothers.

That's a great example - millions of people ( men, women and yes, even children) have died from mosquito born illnesses so bird eggs 'might' not be as thin? Really, the research on this one was as thin as the research on the Population Bomb, The Club of Rome, Global Warming, Global Freezing, Nuclear Winter, etc, etc.

Then again, how can a person balance the misery inflicted on millions of people who live in the tropics compared to some American liberal feeling good about himself? /s