{"article":{"id":214388,"heading":"Social Darwinism in America","author":"Gilbert Mercier","created":"2008-02-27 05:29:58","modified":"2008-02-27 06:11:01","last_modified":"Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:11:01","article":"

The numbers are staggering, the current estimation for homeless people in Los Angeles County is 80,000. In New-Orleans post Katrina 12,000 people live in the streets...and the one still in FEMA trailers are suffering from formaldahyde poisoining.

Reagan started the policy of the \" Open air Asylum\" by drasticly cutting funding for mental health programs. Clinton did not managed to reverse the trend and of course Bush Jr. made things worse...a lot worse. With a recession on our hands and an epidemy of foreclosures, the homeless population could reach a catastrophic proportion

It is peculiar, that a group of people ( W and his Evangelists friends) while putting in question the validity of Evolution could apply the principles of Social Darwinism so well.<\/p>\n","contact":"gilbert@mercyphotography.com","link":"http:\/\/www.digitalrailroad.net\/Mercier\/default.aspx","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"Senator Edwards was right all along in his depictions of the two America. And thanks to the Bush Admnistration the gap between the "Have" and the " Have not" has reach an obscene level. To see photo of homeless and of NOLA post Katrina go to my web site.\r\n","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2008\/02\/214388.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}