Posted on 05/16/2015 10:42:21 AM PDT by drewh
Actress and liberal activist Susan Sarandon is still blaming America’s homeless problem on Ronald Reagan. The actress, probably best known for her role in the 1988 baseball hit movie Bull Durham, was invited on the May 13 edition of PBS’s Tavis Smiley to plug her son’s 2014 documentary, Storied Streets, that is now available on AMC’s streaming service.
When Smiley asked Sarandon why the issue of homelessness was no longer on the “radar for discussion” she blamed former President Ronald Reagan, as seen in the following exchange:
TAVIS SMILEY: There was a time that I recall where the issue of homelessness was at least being discussed in our society. There was this moment, I think that the moments kind of ebb and flow, but how did the issue of homelessness fall off of the radar for discussion?
SUSAN SARANDON: I think that the conversation changed around the Reagan era, where everything was your fault. And so you blamed, you were blamed for not trying hard enough, you know, from drinking, for drugs, whatever. Just like in the AIDS epidemic the focus went on your lifestyle as opposed to what was actually happening.
And then I think that as the economy got tougher for so many people it’s understandable. It’s the same thing that happens with immigrants. You know, you are trying to hold on to the house. People - there are so many people in this country that are one paycheck away of being on the street, and if they can’t couch surf long enough, they are homeless.
So when you have so many people working so hard. Two jobs per family, three jobs per family, they don’t want to think that that’s them. You know? And there is also compassion fatigue. So people see it and it doesn’t get solved. And they just don’t want to see it any more. And everyone is fighting so hard. And I think - so it’s been a number of things that have happened, that have made us not want to deal with this issue. But hopefully what Jack’s film does is it humanizes the issue and it puts a face on that.
I blame the ACLU. Regan should have waited however, and forced the courts to release the wacko’s.
I blame Susan Sarandon for not telling her present savior, ObaMao, who is in office...for not fixing it. Or maybe even Mr. Old Blue Dress—he was there for 8 years and did nothing about it.
In her mind, there weren’t homeless prior to January 1981?
So, how does she explain the homeless that became so after January 2009?
There IS, however a small percentage of people that won't work to earn the money that buys home and food.
A man with the security of home and food can do ANYthing
Almost every successful man's story has had, in part, some sort of .. "I had hit bottom ... living in a car ... etc."
And got out of the car into a room, an apartment, a home, a wife and kids, cars, yachts ... youtube !
There is no homeless problem in America. I have not seen a story in the media about the homeless since the Bush years. I do not expect to see another story on homeless until another Republican wins the WH, which may be never.
That stupid woman’s brains are hanging off her chest.
Susan Sarandon is on the list of actors whose works I will not watch. Others include George Clooney, Vanessa Redgrave, Jane Fonda, Ed Asner, Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, and Alec Baldwin. A sorry lot. I cannot bear to see them.
I remember her for the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
From Wiki on Deinstitutionalisation:
The consumer or ex-patient movement, began as protests in the 1970s, forming groups such as Liberation of Mental Patients, Project Release, Insane Liberation Front, and the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI).[1]
Many of the participants consisted of ex-patients of mental institutions who felt the need to challenge the system's treatment of the mentally ill.[1] Initially, this movement targeted issues surrounding involuntary commitment, use of electroconvulsive therapy, anti-psychotic medication, and coercive psychiatry.[1] Many of these advocacy groups were successful in the judiciary system. In 1975, the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit ruled in favour of the Mental Patient's Liberation Front of Rogers v. Okin,[1] establishing the right of a patient to refuse treatment.
A 1975 award-winning film, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, sent a message regarding the rights of those committed involuntarily. That same year, the U.S. Supreme Court restricted the rights of states to incarcerate someone who was not violent. This was followed up with a 1978 ruling further restricting states from confining anyone involuntarily for mental illness.
Fancy that - it all happened during Ford's and Carter's tenure.
Add to that Barbara Streisand and Janeane Garofalo.
They distribute that shared one IQ point rather sparingly in H-Wood, apparently.
What a bimbo.
Does anyone really pay attention to that sloppy old whore? Between her and that Armenian hag cher, geez, who keeps sticking microphones in their faces?
Of course his name would never come up considering he is one of the skanks protected class.
I forgot to add Danny Glover and Whoppee Goldberg.
Old Blew Stain and Bend-over Barry have had close to sixteen years to fix it, if it was true.
It isn’t.
Susan Sarandon is severely impaired, cause unknown.
Susan Sarandon? A name I haven’t seen or heard in years. Is she still around? I though she did “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” and died shortly thereafter.
I blame the left for everything from toothaches to rainy days.
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