Voices

A serious ostrich mentality

BRATTLEBORO — It takes a serious ostrich mentality to assert that this nation takes care of its poor.

Since Reagan emptied the psych wards, we have had a homeless crisis. San Diego's current solution is to give the homeless a one-way bus ticket out of town. The current solution is to move them down the road or to hide them - say, under Penn Station.

UNICEF? Another “charitable” organization that eats more money in administrative costs than it delivers to its supposed target population? No, thank you.

As for the death penalty, perhaps you haven't noticed all the moratoriums and questions that have arisen over the past 20 years, nor the U.S. Supreme Court's despicable decision in the 1980s that, despite all the facts to the contrary, being black gets you on death row, and being white will get you much less.

What an offensive, fact-less, and inane bleating once again in The Commons.

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