"I simply do not believe that President Bush has put forth a proposal to have compulsory psychiatric screening for the entire 300 million citizens of this country, and then forcibly medicate those who don't measure up with drugs from companies supposedly financially friendly to him."
I haven't been able to read through the whole thread, but that was my initial reaction to the article. It's an astoundingly intrusive proposal and I cannot believe it's real.
The source is World Net Daily, which at times can be sensationalistic.
Maybe they're trying to sell off the last of their Y2K survival goods.
The primary sources are the White House pages describing the plan in detail, and the British Medical Journal article (both predating the WND article.) I'm not going to go back through the thread and re-link to them (they've already been linked-to about a dozen times.) Read the *primary sources.* It's all there.
Whether Congress would actually pass and fund something like that is another story. Keep in mind that Congress passed No Child Left Behind - even when many Bush supporters poo-pooed it, as in "It's just a campaign promise; it won't go anywhere." My point is that something like this *could* pass - after all, it's "compassionate" and "for the children."