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To: greenspirit who wrote (16835)	1/24/1998 3:58:00 PM
From: Lady Lurksalot	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 108807

Michael, I did not mean to imply that President Reagan is responsible for the homeless and quite agree that oft times "homeless" is a euphemism for what we used to call bums, hobos, etc. I do maintain that Reagan eliminated a lot of mental health and other social programs, sending these people out into the streets to fend for themselves and frighten the horses, so to speak. I will also stipulate that many of these folk had/have substance problems. I'm not making a judgment as to how people become homeless and remain homeless. What I am sayinig is that Reagan's social policies created greater monetary and other burdens for the citizenry that we would have had he left those programs as they were. And, yes, I believe his legacy continues even eleven years after he left office. Flophouses and buliding codes? Yes, I agree. But I'm in California--The Shake and Bake State. California has always had the toughest building codes to be found anywhere on the planet. BTW, we still have flophouses (although their numbers have dwindled in recent years) only now they are called residence hotels. Liberal mayors and their grandstanding speeches? All of our large cities have had more than their share of those creatures. Your city, Seattle, has the misfortune of having mayors and chambers of commerce who brag too much and give other less enlightened cities ideas, perhaps to your future detriment. One of the industries I had in mind that should not have been deregulated is the airlines. Just ask any airline pilot, and you'll get an earfull. <vbg> I embrace capitalism and free enterprise and used to think a lot of things the government controls and regulates should be put up for grabs to the private sector, but that was before I fully realized how much the stock market regulates private enterprise by default. Do any of us really want health-care providers whose ultimate concern is the bottom line and Wall Street? Regulation by government or by private enterprise; one can be just as bad as the other. Holly