Posted on 06/22/2004 3:27:46 AM PDT by George Frm Br00klyn Park
New Freedom Initiative
All, Ah,,, New Freedom,?,? O-KAY' fine. Peace and love, George.
I don't believe this report for one second.
There is probably some kind of mental health initiative going on in the Bush administration but mental health screening of every citizen? Nah! I'm not buying it.
This is the most ridiculous idea I have ever heard of. We don't need a mental health program in this country....we need a Spiritual program.
P, Right. Me neither. Peace and love, George.
Orwell would love the title. It seems fitting on Big Brother.
Joseph must be having another Les Kooksolving kind of day.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/freedominitiative/freedominitiative.html
I think I may not be a Republican anymore after the sun has set today.
...remember when Les Kinsolving ranted at Ari Fleischer, because Ari put that old, disruptive, left/liberal bat out of the press conferences? That was downright weird.
Fo, One thing Les depends on is FREEDOM of speech. For others as well as himself. Peace and love, George.
This thing is spinning so hard, it's liable to disintegrate at any moment. Truth is, the drug companies would be supporters of ANY administration - it's only good business.
Screening would be available, at govt expense, for every citizen, and not mandatory.
Turning the care over to local communities gets the fed gov out of the business and turns it over to local control. It's a program initiated by Reagan. It's not "kicking the mentally disabled out of the hospitals" - a canard leveled against Reagan. If they truly need inpatient care, they will still get it. If not, they will have assistance in integrating into the community and getting off the street. I see it working here in Hot Springs, SD. We have people in our apt bldg that wouldn't be able to live on their own without anti-psychotic drugs, and they are doing quite well. It's definitely "new freedom" for them!
Now there's a ray of sunshine.
Huh?
What I see in that link is primarily an effort to get the disabled into the workforce rather than just continuing to live off the public dole. No Democrat would ever go beyond simply handing out inexhaustible public assistance.
And I saw nothing in it that justifies Farah's claims. He says Bush "plans to unveil" all of this... well, I've seen MANY claims of what Bush "plans to unveil" wind up being total BS, so I'll believe it when I actually see it.
Qwinn
I agree. This sounds fabricated.
Schools, the panel concluded, are in a "key position" to screen the 52 million students and 6 million adults who work at the schools.MF, Yeah. Nothing to it. It's a good thing. Good for "preschool children too". O'kay fine. Peace and love, George.The commission recommended that the screening be linked with "treatment and supports," including "state-of-the-art treatments" using "specific medications for specific conditions."
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...don't know if this needs to be repeated again. Many who read here probably saw her in action. I agree that all of those journalists should have been allowed to speak, and that's the point. She had a habit of disrupting others' question and answer time. She often begged the question to heckle. Could it be that she was preventing others from exercising the same freedom?
I know that the sweet grandma figure factor matters in the eyes of many--even when it takes place in our government and media. But it's also easy to remember all of those grandmas shouting anti-Bush slogans under their NOW signs in Florida during the 2000 recounts.
That's already going on - students are screened for disabilities in order to tailor their education to fit their needs. Used to be, every child got an IQ test. Many schools gave the MMPI test, also. I only see it as a problem if it gets misused and/or abused.
Sounds like something dreamed up by a sick mind - more like a "liberal" rant than a factual story.
I read it, and it doesn't have anything to do with WND's latest Kooksolving/Thomas moment.
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