IV VL Treatment of Mental Illness & Prison Populations

[John Carvill]

> What VL & IV show,

This is really, really grating, you know, this tone of, 'now, as my
assistant Tom Pynchon will now help me demonstrate..'.

Where the fuck do you get off, man?

> is that Ronald Reagan pursued a policy toward the
> treatment of prisoners and the treatment of mental illness that
> satisfied special interest groups and the demands of the business
> community, but failed to address the issue: the economic and
> educational deficiencies in working class communities and the
> treatment of mental illness.

The main thing wrong with this is the phrase 'failed to address the
issue', as if failing to do something positive to help alleviate those
problems wasn't a part of the Reganite program, which in fact set out
very deliberately to worsen and further entrench those sorts of
problems.

Just sayin'