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In reply to the discussion: Someday it will be crystal clear to all just what a terrible president Ronald Reagan was- [View all]lambchopp59
(2,809 posts)One of the major issues Reagan created, then RWNJ's and Fox Noise nowadays blame the Dems for not fixing:
The Gipper began dismantling mental health care under his governorship.
Ray Gun's 1981 Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act repealed Carter's community health legislation, established block grants for the states, effectively killing the federal government's role in providing services to the mentally ill. Federal mental-health spending decreased by 30 percent
Forward 40 years, and we have hoardes of barking-at-moon schizophrenics who were given "Greyhound therapy" from dozens of western states (to San Francisco) wandering the streets who have no more capacity caring for themselves than helpless pre-schoolers.
It would take a cargo ship chock full of cash to fix the problem at this point. Potential patches have met with total cock-blocking by Repuglican congressional greed ever since.
We need to blast these MAGA hats with the conundrum their great historical hero largely created every time they bring up the "homeless problem" in that "lib-rul, democrat state".