"Facts are stubborn things"

Reagan was right. Facts are stubborn things. I bet one thing that old B-list actor didn't see coming was this shitty blog, and all the facts I'm going to nail to his name. Cold, hard, one sided facts. Some of you may be thinking, "Just how many facts have you compiled, and are they the factual type of facts?" I have a whole internets worth of facts, and yes, they are actual factual facts. Old Lady Reagan's baked in mac n' cheese doesn't hold a candle to the bodacity of stubbornness these facts have.

Fact #1 Ronald Reagan, as governor of California, released tens of thousands of mentally ill patients into the streets. The only other time something like that happened was when Reagan did it again as president.  Let's check the facts. According to www.u-s-history.com, "...during his governorship, Reagan dismantled the public psychiatric hospital system, advocating instead a community-based housing and treatment system to supplant it." Some people may argue that this doesn't prove a thing and it's hardly stubborn. If you want proof, just go to San Fransisco. I've never seen so many homeless people living in such a bustling city. And they aren't the begging booze-hound homeless, they are the mentally ill homeless. They live in that community system that Reagan envisioned. The one where the mentally ill live in the streets and eat at homeless shelters instead living inside where doctors can properly monitor and administer.  There are signs in San Fran that remind us that people are not allowed to poop in the streets (ok, so I gotta give Reagan props for giving me a chuckle when I saw those signs).


I have developed a theory, just now as I've been writing, as to why Reagan did this. Well, he was horrible at handling money, but I have a different idea. Reagan probably thought that the psychiatric hospitals were full of doped out hippies all tripped up from the Berkley days, and to make sure they weren't getting free pharmies with tax dollars, he kicked them out on the street. Or maybe he felt bad for the 22,000 national guardsman he sicked on the hippies, so he sent them back to their natural habitat (the streets, of course). Nah. I think that idea is a little far out. He was probably just a huge dick.