Borillar
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We don't want to get rid of social safety nets. We want them REFORMED. The system is constantly abused. We want the abuse stopped. We don't want to cut off Grandma from her Social Security. We don't want to cut off a family that has Dad working 2 jobs to make ends meet. We want to cut off the baby-producing crackwhores in Section 8 Housing.2. If you get rid of the social safety net, which reichwingers would love to do, people without resources and recourse are going to die.
They want Gitmo left open because they don't want dangerous terrorists housed on the US mainland near American citizens.7. Congress controls funding. It would cost money to transfer prisoners. repugs in congress want to keep open our torture prison.
Rahm Emanuel closed half of Chicago's mental health clinics. He ain't a Republican.9. Where are they supposed to put crazy people? Repugs don't want mental health facilities, because it's all "quackery". Geeze, are you a scientologist or something? And why do you assume that anyone in the mental health field is necessarily a liberal? Aren't there any right wing shrinks?
The trouble with "reforming" the system is the people you are not targeting would be effected too. The conservative mindset appears to be that abuse must be rooted out no matter who gets hurt. The liberal mindset is that people in need must be helped even though there are those elements who will take advantage of the system.
The forgotten prisoners of Gitmo would be just as secure in isolation in any of our supermax federal institutions as they are in Gitmo. The only differences are that they could no longer be tortured, and they would finally get a hearing. Apparently, republicans are against that.
How much funding did Rahm Emanuel have to keep these institutions open?