Posted on 03/19/2025 5:58:52 AM PDT by V_TWIN
Pronto.
That wouldn’t surprise me one bit.
“More proof the mental hospitals closed in the 1970s need to be reopened. When closed mass murders took off like a rocket.”
Actually, Reagan deserves that blame....
“But in 1981, when President Ronald Reagan deinstitutionalized the mentally ill and emptied the psychiatric hospitals into so-called “community” clinics, the problem got worse.”
…and why they come to SoFlo for the winter.
Without going to the link, I’m gonna guess that he is a white dude, missing a whole bunch of teeth from years of meth abuse, and has cut off shirt exposing his belly and arms? How far off am i?
Ah dang, I posted before seeing the photo- guess I wasn’t too close with the description.
Your pretty much over the target my friend 😁
“Donald Trump has personally made business decisions which have hurt so many different reincarnated Jesuses” Todd added. I think Todd may need some therapy.
The Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981, passed by a Democratic-controlled House of Representatives and a Republican-controlled Senate, and signed by President Ronald Reagan on August 13, 1981, combined funding for social service programs, including mental health services, into a single grant given to states.
Supporters believed this approach gave states flexibility and independence.
Critics feared it would result in reduced funding for mental health services and go against the community mental health movements objectives.
Reagan advocated for smaller government, reduced federal spending, and greater emphasis on states' rights and local control. With a focus on government decreased spending and promoting states rights and local governance there was a reevaluation of federal involvement and financing in areas, like mental health.
It included provisions that repealed most of the MHSA passed by Democrats under Jimmy Carter, discontinuing federal funding and the support for community mental health centers established under the MHSA (Democrats).
Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 redirected mental health funding mechanisms and transferred more responsibility for mental health services to the states, reducing significantly federal funding for mental health programs.
It is also important to note that almost ALL the fights against infringements on the rights of mentally ill people to be institutionalized came from the LEFT.
To say "Reagan did it" is misleading. He thought, and I agree with him, it is a State responsibility. And the STATES took the money and abdicated their responsibility by using it elsewhere, IMO. The responsibility should NEVER have been at the Federal level.
There is nothing in the Constitution that says the Federal government is responsible for mental health.
Took the blue pill obviously.
Aww. He stole my tactic. I was going to challenge Anna Paulina Luna to fight me naked.
I’ve always wondered where that picture was taken at.
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