Ray-gun loved illegal aliens, created al Qaeda, and helped the Chicoms become a juggernaut by giving them our nukes, ICBMs, and space tech. He also gave WMDs to both Iran and Iraq and money to Hezbollah in exchange for hostage releases. He literally negotiated with terrorists. He raised taxes moreso than cut them like his BS SS/Medicare tax increase.
He even shut down the State Hospital system in California when he was governor in the 60s and brought that program nationally when he became president, so we can thank Reagan for our massive homeless issues across this country.
Yeah, totally Reagan's fault - not at all the fault of the ACLU which fought relentlessly to stop the forced institutionalization of the criminally insane so that they were legally entitled to roam the streets free as birds. Read up on some history, you are horribly uninformed / misinformed.
I actually am very informed on the history of it. You must not remember Gov. Reagan signing Lanterman-Petris-Short Act in 1967 when four of California's 10+ state institutions shut down immediately with several more closing in the coming decades. He also killed off state institutions when he became president through the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act, where Reagan gutted the funding that President Carter committed to state institutions. Im sure ACLU and patients' rights activist played a role, but there's a lot more political reasons for it.
The genesis of the homelessness problem is that the state's authority to forcibly confine people against their will absent a criminal conviction ended as a result of ACLU lawsuits. The changes began with Kennedy who signed the Community Mental Health Centers Construction Act in 1963, LBJ followed that in 1965 by signing legislation that moved federal funding from states such that state run institutions were forced to close for financial reasons, 1962 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' was published, so the California legislation you cite was not the cause of anything, it was a result of the feds under democrat regimes cutting off funding to the states, which in turn was a result of public outrage at the practice of lifetime institutionalization. Reagan responded to changes in the law, federal policies and public sentiment, he did not cause those things.
Bullshit. Want a hot take? How about this - for all you claim Reagan gave our enemies, Trump gave our enemies control over the house, senate, and executive branch and oversaw the death of our republic without exercising any of the myriad powers inherent in the executive. Still 2d best POTUS this century. No one got locked up though, and none of the 25 million illegals were sent back. No voter id, no cleaning out the rot in the alphabet agencies. Wasted opportunities, and all he did will be undone in Biden's first 2 months.
Ray-gun loved illegal aliens, created al Qaeda, and helped the Chicoms become a juggernaut by giving them our nukes, ICBMs, and space tech. He also gave WMDs to both Iran and Iraq and money to Hezbollah in exchange for hostage releases. He literally negotiated with terrorists. He raised taxes moreso than cut them like his BS SS/Medicare tax increase.
Reagan was the granddaddy of neocons and neolibs.
He even shut down the State Hospital system in California when he was governor in the 60s and brought that program nationally when he became president, so we can thank Reagan for our massive homeless issues across this country.
Berkeley was called the "open ward" when the local hospital was shut down. Those people never left the city either if anyone has been downtown.
Yeah, totally Reagan's fault - not at all the fault of the ACLU which fought relentlessly to stop the forced institutionalization of the criminally insane so that they were legally entitled to roam the streets free as birds. Read up on some history, you are horribly uninformed / misinformed.
I actually am very informed on the history of it. You must not remember Gov. Reagan signing Lanterman-Petris-Short Act in 1967 when four of California's 10+ state institutions shut down immediately with several more closing in the coming decades. He also killed off state institutions when he became president through the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act, where Reagan gutted the funding that President Carter committed to state institutions. Im sure ACLU and patients' rights activist played a role, but there's a lot more political reasons for it.
The genesis of the homelessness problem is that the state's authority to forcibly confine people against their will absent a criminal conviction ended as a result of ACLU lawsuits. The changes began with Kennedy who signed the Community Mental Health Centers Construction Act in 1963, LBJ followed that in 1965 by signing legislation that moved federal funding from states such that state run institutions were forced to close for financial reasons, 1962 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' was published, so the California legislation you cite was not the cause of anything, it was a result of the feds under democrat regimes cutting off funding to the states, which in turn was a result of public outrage at the practice of lifetime institutionalization. Reagan responded to changes in the law, federal policies and public sentiment, he did not cause those things.
Negotiating with Hezbollah is the opposite of what a Neocon would do.
And gave immunity to vaccine companies
Amnesty and immunity to vaccine makers. Hm. I wonder how we got to where we are today.
If he didn't they wouldn't make them.
Do you mean the taliban?
Bullshit. Want a hot take? How about this - for all you claim Reagan gave our enemies, Trump gave our enemies control over the house, senate, and executive branch and oversaw the death of our republic without exercising any of the myriad powers inherent in the executive. Still 2d best POTUS this century. No one got locked up though, and none of the 25 million illegals were sent back. No voter id, no cleaning out the rot in the alphabet agencies. Wasted opportunities, and all he did will be undone in Biden's first 2 months.