Why are kids of color in MN spending days, weeks, and months in hospital ERs that can't treat their problems?

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7. Back in the late 70's,

when I got out of the AF and found out about the GI bill, I went to college. Psychology was always a love of mine. Helping people. Not experimental psych. Everyone at that time was going for the Business stuff. I hated that. For one thing, I had dyslexia with numbers! (LOL) I'd just gotten divorced because hubby, who was still AF, did NOT want me to go to college. I had other plans for my life. I had a daughter and still pursued my dream. My first job interviews were a bust. Not because of me... but because of what they offered. No way could I survive and raise a child on what they offered! One job I really wanted was a halfway house counselor. Minimum way 3.50/hour at the time, 4 hours minimum... no guarantee beyond that per day! How can you live on that?

So, I could type... fast. That led me to computers and the DoD. Made my life in the DoD, either by contracting or later in GS. And through it all, in a life in computers. As a woman, I was always on the low end of the payscale, but I did find a way to put my training to use, just through non-ordinary ways. For one, as a help desk tech, you had to be able to work with anyone from the most stupid VP to the most insecure newbie... and I could do it. I also branched out into women's spirituality and for years was a spiritual counselor.

Reagan and the Republicans helped start us down such a dark, dark tunnel. I damn them every day. So many lost souls. So many people suffering. Yes, we have drug problems. We have suicides. We also have drug problems where people who need them can't get them because of the people who need them because of their soul-sickness. It didn't start with Reagan, tho. You can trace this back much further than him. Like Trump, he was just a TV host with a "pretty" face. (ha!) He could read a script and make it work for people like Cheney and Feith. What they tried in Iraq that failed horribly and gives us what we have today in the Middle East, they wanted to do (and still want to do) to us here, in America. And they won't stop trying... because their watchwords are "Conservatism can't fail, we can only fail conservatism." This is why they hate trump. He's not conservative. He's a dictator. Not cut from their cloth. Not beholding to them. And they can't control him. Oh, reap the worldwind, Cheney.