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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: KLP who wrote (51506)	10/24/2000 1:51:22 PM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 769667

I agree, there is too much politicization of such matters. For example, in the '80s a homeless advocacy group more or less invented the figure of 3million homeless, and tried to pretend that it was common to have families in such a situation. More realistic estimates put it at about 300thousand, and the overwhelming majority of cases were psychotics and substance abusers. But the Democrats were determined to show that Reagan was a heartless bastard whose policies were putting children on the street, so they ran with the misinformation. Later, it finally had to be conceded that the 3 million claim could not be sustained, and that most people on the street had psychological problems, but there was still little interest in working out a bipartisan consensus on how to deal with it.