Ronald Reagan cared more about UFOs than AIDS

Ronald Reagan claimed to have seen UFOs on at least two occasions, according to reports from sources as disparate as the Wall Street Journal, Lucille Ball and the National Enquirer. He alerted the Navy to one of his sightings, and he and Nancy believed that Egyptian hieroglyphics referenced extraterrestrial flying crafts. Reagan talked about this alien threat all the time.

On the other hand, he never mentioned AIDS until he was directly questioned about it in his second term, and he never gave a public statement on the epidemic until 1987, when 20,000-30,000 people had already died from it.

Between imaginary and existing threats, there is a point on how we should spend our money.

Source: salon.com