Fox News host on the homeless: “It was more civilized when we banished them to asylums and put them in strait jackets”
Watters: “It was more civilized when we banished them to asylums and put them in straight jackets”
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From the September 22, 2022, edition of Fox News' Jesse Watters Primetime
GLENN BEATON (GUEST): Listen, I don't think people ought to starve or freeze to death in America. We're too rich a society to afford that. And if somebody is starving to death or freezing to death in the gutter, I'll help them right there. But, giving them money isn't going to help them. They're going to misuse the money.
You know, in the old days we didn't have this problem and we weren't nearly as rich as we are now in the old days. In the old days, we had mental institutions. We had prisons. We had family support groups. We had churches. Well, the left doesn't want any part of any of that, because it threatens their governmental control. They want all of this to be owned by government.
JESSE WATTERS (HOST): You're right. It was more civilized when we banished them to asylums and put them in strait jackets and gave them the help and the drugs that they needed in an institution. This is not civilized, to let people sling poop.