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).