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[Cleita]

42. Did you ever have a course in economics?

Supply and demand fuels all free economic systems. Also, your argument is historically incorrect. I remember a time when we didn't have homeless. Even free spirited hippies weren't homeless. They found communes that would take them in and the reason the communes had property is that property prices weren't through the roof. The only homeless were itinerant hobos and vagabonds who wanted to be homeless. When they got tired of it, there was always a cheap rental and a minimum wage job to cover it and drop back into society so to speak. Back then we took care of our mentally ill until Reagan and his minions came along and destroyed the whole system.

I personally saw my rent triple in six months time after Reagan became President. It's also the first time I started seeing homeless people on the sidewalk and alleys around where I lived. Younger people always figure that the homeless have always been with us. It's not true. We did it as a society back then because the super wealthy had to pay progressive taxes that covered all the programs that kept our society largely an affluent middle class. Now, we are just another third world country and your argument about the government spending money on wars is only half right. We still had wars back during the sixties and still were able to take care of everyone.