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Yes, it used to be better, JD, then Reagan got in and oversaw a massive transfer of wealth from working people to the rich.

Add in a bunch of libertarian lawyeers in the 70s who wanted state hospitals closed and the mentally ill back in their communities. Republicans shot down every attempt to fund community based mental health care and the new laws said crazy people couldn't be ,medicated unless they agreed to it, which they wouldn't because they were often crazy enough to think everybody was trying to poison them. The crazies were abandoned to the streets, and that's another part of the problem.

Then there's the scarcity of housing thanks to people who see housing as an investment instead of a place for someone to live, builders who built the wrong kind of housing in the wro9ng places, and gentrification on all that Reagan money.

And of course there are the consequences of the war on drugs, which gave us more bathtub drugs like meth and now fentanyl is everything being sold on the street. You want to take that on, be my guest, but I know a failure when I see one. War aint working.

So there you go, JD. The yuppie final solution of moving these people to concentration camps that are worse than the old state hospitals wer is going to get pushback, a lot of it, since most of these people who make you frightened still have families, even though those families can't cope on a daily basis. They don't want a relative mistreated, either.

So, Mr Hedge Fund Phony, you want to overturn all the bad decisions that contributed to this, I will applaud your efforts I'd like to go back to the occasional end stage alcoholic asking for change instead of seeing whole families in tents on the street. Oh, right, you're a Republican. You think kicking them in the gut some more will worrk because you like kicking people who can't kick back.