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Say NO NO NO to Wal-Mart!!!
Calif Bill wrote:
"jps" wrote in message ... In article k.net, says... jps, hate-filled race-baiting bigot, wrote: In article , says... Harry Krause wrote: I'm in downtown DC several days a week. As I walk from one appointment to another, I usually encounter some homeless or otherwise visibly impoverished people. A high percentage of these folks are mentally unbalanced, and some seem to be suffering from schizophrenia. Apparently you are unaware that it was the social theories of liberals who closed mental hospitals and turned those people out to the streets. Golly, that's the first I've heard that Ronny Raygun was a liberal. It had nothing to do with Ronald Reagan, your former president. It began long before he was president. It's a garden variety lie of the left that he "caused" homelessness. It was the Kennedy administration that began a policy to get crazies out of state mental hospitals and back into the communities. I beg to differ. Reagan took what was a system in transition and doomed it to failure... From a recent ABC news report: This group bulged in size, largely due to a deliberate process of "deinstitutionalization" first begun in the 1950s. A patient's best interest, mental health experts then agreed, was served not so much by long-term residential care, as by community outpatient treatment. As a result, the number of resident mental health patients in the U.S. dropped from 559,000 in 1955 to only 54,000 in 2000, Manderscheid reports. But the community outpatient care system that mental health providers had hoped to build failed to blossom. A federal grant helped construct about 750 new community health centers between 1963 and 1978; but when the Reagan administration converted remaining funding into block grants to states, most opted to finance currently existing mental health centers, rather than build new ones. According to Manderscheid, the envisioned community mental health system "froze at that point in time." Why is it's Reagan's fault. He gave the states some funding, they abused it. Where is it the Federal governments job to fund state mental health programs? Did the Fed's fund the state hospitals? Don't use logic on JPS. It just confuses him. LZ |
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