Reply #34: Bullshit [View All]

[symbolman]

I worked in a VA hospital after getting out when I was drafted during Vietnam..

90% of the patients had NO WAY to care for themselves.. part of my job was to get them fixed up, new glasses, physicals, drug abuse treatment, clothing, halfway houses, teeth, etc and then introduce them to society..

Most of them came back on a gurney completely in shambles, looking nothing like the guy I sent out..

Our community care program consisted of injecting Street Veterans with Thorzine and releasing them to wander about talking to parking meters and sleeping on doorsteps, subway grates, where ever until they DIED and were no longer a govt problem..

What Reagan did was the equivalent of releasing a canary in Fairbanks, Alaska into the wild so it could be FREE..

Once again, bullshit.

Glad that a few individuals get OUT if they aren't too damaged, but for the rest of them it was sheer hell, pain, torture.. some of these guys would come in with their toenails growing THROUGH their shoes..

tell me that's sane.

There is an old saw tho, once you get in the nuthouse there's a good chance you won't get out.. even if you are sane you'll go crazy while in there - but what they are offering here is nothing short of what the Soviets did to politicals prisoners, if they didn't send them to gulags..