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Originally Posted by 1101

I hate Reagan because he did nothing while gay men were dying of AIDS. At that time nobody knew how it was transmitted or how to treat it and people were dying left and right and that sorry sack of Alzheimer-Ridden monkey sh*t did nothing.

The attitude at the time was "Oh it's just a bunch of f*gs dying so why should we care?" I lived through those times and I can tell you thats exactly what it was like.

It was around the same time that some housewife in flyoverland got a poisoned tylenol and the government went into hyperdrive and spent millions of dollars trying to find out what happened.

The first time he even uttered the word "AIDS" was during a speach when he said the government wanted to find out how far AIDS had affected "the general population".

Like gay people are not part of "the general population".

I will hate that man forever because my friends died thinking it was "God's judgement" or some bullsh*t fundamentalist nonsense.

Does that answer your question sweetheart?

A very inaccurate and just plain wrong post, 1101.

According to the Congressional Research Service, federal spending on HIV/AIDS began at $8 million in fiscal year 1982. By the time Reagan left office, the fiscal 1989 budget contained $2.322 billion for HIV/AIDS. Overall, between fiscal years 1982 and 1989, the Reagan administration spent $5.727 billion on HIV/AIDS.

The average annual increase in HIV/AIDS funding over this period was 128.92%. So take your hate somewhere else because you are wasting it in this thread. I lived through those times, too.