Reagan purged the mental health hospitals back in Morning in America.
As with many of the things he did, and around the campfire of which modern day republican cretins dance with glee, he screwed us.
Or at least those of "us" (remember: "We the People etc. etc. etc."?) who had the misfortune to be too other world to do well in this world; since I believe that we are one great tribe, I can with confidence assert that Regan screwed "us".
When I take a taxi from the airport in Paris I see major shack-towns on the periphery of the preipherique; when, after getting to my apartment, I walk up Canal St. Martin, I see tents along the canal housing the un-housed.
In 2006 I lived in an apartment near Avenue Rapp; on Avenue Rapp lived two men on a tarp sheltered sort of by the overhang of an adjacent building - but they lived on the sidewalk - they were known to all of us who lived in real human abodes near them; some of us - I wasn't one of them - delivered food to them daily; the men got sandwiches.
And that was better than starving, I would suggest.
But, even in "socialist" France in 2006 that was the state of affairs.
I spend some time in Seattle.
We - Seattle - have all the tents and tarps and hopeless, hapless, horrendously left behind members of our tribe that I have seen incessantly in Paris.
I hear they have them in Portland; I hear they have them in Omaha, etc. etc. etc.
"Experiencing" is a word that just doesn't get it done.
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