Quick, someone help me with a campaign to reject the Reagan currency! Should we just tell anyone who hands it to us that we don't consider it "real" currency and to give us something else?

I know we are supposed to say only positive things about the recently departed, but I must echo the thoughts of some of the others that this is just an over-the-top undeserved love-fest.

Others have well-documented some of his misdeeds, evil deeds, and just plain massive short-comings, and said them better than I could. I will not relist them. I will, however recount some very personal experiences.

I was a bicycle courier during most of his tenure, and I watched as the count of homeless on the streets steadily increased as a direct result of his "economic" policies and his closing of the mental hospitals. On the day of his second innaugural, it was one of the coldest days on record, ever, in DC. I was on call, but I only had a few runs that day. I had on all of my bestest warmest clothing against the weather and I spent all my time time in the warm office between the few runs I had that day. I wouldn't wish that day on anyone.

On that day, there were several deaths among homeless people. At this time when so many are recounting what a wonderful president and human being he was and insisting that the rest of us so honor him, I remember that day as if it were yesterday. None of his defenders has yet indicated what a grand and glorious thing it was that so many mentally ill or down-on-their-luck were thrust out onto the streets to die of exposure. I implore them to do so.