Posted on 12/10/2013 12:14:11 PM PST by blueyon
Hoarding isn’t storing. Hoarders don’t throw trash away like already eaten food with roaches everywhere, empty boxes, bags of trash every where so they can’t walk in their house except for a little trail. There is a reality show about hoarders. They aren’t storing water and food. It’s a filthy mess they have. I think that is what that state means.
That said, the word “hoarders” could be used by Hussein to mean anything he wants.
The smaller fur ball here eats everything that ventures into the yard but they both know to leave a wide berth for the Queen of the Universe. They do not glance in her direction and act like she simply doesn't exist. Now, if pnly she'll learn to use her nice clean box consistently.
Hoarding is a behavior on the obsessive-compulsive spectrum. Why must government be involved, do you ask? If you want a free society, its members must have sound minds. So the state CAN have a role in managing mental illness without seeming imprudent.
However, of course, the state has grown well beyond where it can be trusted with such at this time, so it is best to leave mental health management to local governments (sigh).
And, by government role, I would prefer it be a supplemental role, rather than a primary one. Government Psychotropics, for example, would probably not be a very good drug company.
If state governments had not gone well beyond their rightful jurisdictions (protecting our freedoms, infrastructure, etc.), I would have no problem with such a task force, as it would concentrate on actual mental cases who have stacked garbage all the way up to their ceilings.
Hoarding (as opposed to prepping and food storage) is a serious mental problem, with the potential to affect public health as insects and rodents breed in the garbage, old food, magazines, etc. I only wish I could trust our overly-politicized governments to concentrate on those particular hoarders.
...we'll all be equally miserable.
Real hoarding is not that big a deal, because only a small portion of the population actually does it. It can become a big deal if pests breed in all that garbage, however. Because of that possibility, the government can condemn their property or otherwise sanction them.
I'm sure that's what they WANT you to think. (donning tin foil hat).
When you think about it, does anybody really think Delaware needs a task force to google “hoarding OCD” on the computer???
“Are they accusing dogs and cats of hoarding? Will they be sent to animal psychiatrists for retraining?”
My cats (we have four, two inside cats, two outside cats, on 5 plus acres) have about 180 lbs of their preferred catfood stored in an old freezer in the garage. They have instructed us to keep them supplied with this, generously laced with table scraps. Are they hoarders? If the Hoarding Task Force comes here to check on the kitty hoard, they will get their evil leftist eyes scratched out!
And that, my dear FRiend, is exactly the problem we face. They can not be trusted to confine their reaching arms to that which are actually public health problems and not the fabrication of busy bodies.
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