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Michael Shellenberger: How Progressives Threaten Cities

Commonwealth Club of California Podcast

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Are You Blaming Ronald Reagan for the California Crisis?

A lot of people blame ronald regan for the crisism. In reality it was a democrat who got the institute d institutionalization of psychiatric hospitals, rolling president john f Kennedy. Regan certainly had a hand in it, but he wasn't driving it by any means. It was really coming from progressives to shut down the hospitals and then prohibit the mandatory nature of it which remains to day. And then the other issue is just the budget cuts. We went and pulled the original, hard work byy my staff, they deserve huge credit,. i went and pull the original budget funding for housing.

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