REAGAN To Blame For LAX Shootings: Imaginative Libtalker

THOM HARTMANN (04 November 2013): If you go back to the decade and a half or so when we had fifteen or twenty of these mass shootings in the workplace, after the mid-'80s, and we referred to them as 'going postal' because they all happened in post offices, this was right after Reagan privatized, semi-privatized, the post office and started doing major cuts, both in pay and benefits, to postal workers. We've -- for thirty-two years now, thirty-two years of Reaganomics, we've seen the middle class get wiped out, and along with it we're seeing incidents of this kind of violence and mental illness go up the same way that Pickens and Wilkerson [sic] document happens in country after country when the social safety net gets frayed and the economy goes down.
 
AUSTIN PETERSEN: But, you know, as understanding [sic] social science, that causation -- correlation is not causation, Thom.
 
THOM HARTMANN: I think in this case it is.