"Josh Hill"  wrote in message
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> On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 07:49:50 -0800, Jon Schild 
> wrote:
>
> >Josh Hill wrote:
>
> >> OTOH, while I can't give figures, most of the homeless people I've
> >> seen or known are drug addicts or dumped mental patients. The latter
> >> need help. One of the cruelties of post-Reagan America is that these
> >> people were dumped from mental institutions but weren't provided with
> >> the support they needed to survive on the outside. It isn't just the
> >> Reagan Republicans who are to blame here: a flock of civil liberties
> >> lawyers defends those who should be institutionalized from the care
> >> they need. The result of this neglect can be tragic -- addiction,
> >> imprisonment, death.
> >
> >Indeed.  It was the misguided individuals protecting the mentally ill
> >from "unjust imprisonment" in institutions that caused
the problems.  It
> >was just more convenient to blame Reagan than to admit they were wrong,
> >and some people really _can't_ take care of themselves.
>
> But I do blame Reagan. Not because he was responsible for the policy
> of deinstitutionalization, but because he failed to mandate and
> provide the care that was to have taken its place.

What about Congress?



Dennis


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