Subject: | Ronald Reagan Was Part of the Ruin of California
| Date: | Mon, 11 Aug 2003 16:37:16 GMT
| From: | "Winston Smith, American Patriot" <FranzKafka@Oceania.WhiteHouse.GOV>
| Newsgroups: | alt.california,alt.politics.bush,talk.rumors,nyc.politics
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czero@toohot.net (Corpus Zero) wrote in inimitable style:
> Some people say Arnold shouldn't be governor of CA
> because he has no experience as an elected official.
>
> But then again Gray Davis has lots of experience at
> being governor, and look at how he's fucked up California.
>
> Riordan had no experience in politics and ran LA quite
> well, in fact many Californians would have liked to see
> him run for Gov.
>
> If never having held office is not a good thing, then
> how about Hillary being Senator in a state she never
> lived in and never having held an elected office ever?
California is in the bottom 5 of public school education among all states
thanks to Ronald Reagan, the last actor----I use the term charitably-----to
hold the governor's seat. Under Reagan's rule, changes were made to
California's education system where we find 35 year old science books (in
biology, particularly) used by primary and secondary school students.
California's public school education system in the 50s and early 60s was
the ENVY OF THE NATION, and then Reagan became governor (from 1966-1974).
With Ed Meese, he did more to antagonize what he considered radical college
students wanting change from the corruption as usual. He betrayed his
membership and presidency of an actors labor union (the Screen Actors
Guild) by helping McCarthy in his anti-Communist witchhunt paranoia and to
find suspected Communists among Hollywood personalities.
The mentally ill (homeless) wandering the streets? You can thank Reagan
for that. He beat the ACLU and others to the punch in putting on the
streets the mentally ill requiring guardianship, but for different reasons.
Reagan did it because he was a penny-pincher who thought state hospital
cost too much. He must have obviously believed in eugenics, whether he
knew it or not. For if you set the seriously mentally ill loose to fend
for themselves, knowing that they can not, then you must justify your
inhumanity somehow, and I suppose that means you will resort to a Darwinian
principle of "mutate or vacate" or "adapt or die." The ACLU and other
"defenders of the mentally ill" were worried about mentally ill people who
were committed or forced against their will, and could cope on their own.
The problem is, there are no reliable evaluation criteria----in the eyes of
the ACLU or leave-the-mentally-ill-free types-----for deciding whether a
mentally ill person can cope on their own.
That's obviously not the worst Reagan has done to this world, or to
California. There is his MISERABLE record as president, of course (with
but one notable achievement).
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