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I don't see where it's any of the government's business, I don't see the justification for holding me up at gunpoint to pay for it, and it has the potential to do orders of magnitude more harm than good. This sounds like a worthy thing for a charity maybe. But to give that role to a coercive power like the government is asking for trouble.

Imagine Hillary Clinton with this program. And your kid, in a school controlled by her Department of Education.

Don't fool yourself - there will be literally tons of drugs involved. And for every person who is correctly diagnosed and treated who wouldn't have been otherwise, there will be ten who will be given treatment on invented diagnoses. What if they label conservatism as a mental disease? (The academic studies have already been done, FYI, and they have "proof" that conservatives are crazy - no I'm not kidding). What do you do when some Leftist teacher has your kid medicated because he refuses to believe in global warming hysteria?

If that doesn't frighten the wits out of you, I don't know what you're doing here on FR. This program is as anticonservative as they come. It's way way way too much power for the government to have over a citizen who has not committed an aggravated felony.

Please. The only reason I posted to this thread at all was to counter those that were saying that George Bush was planning to force everyone to be evaluated and drugged.

That premise is false. That was the only thing that I cared to comment about.

But for some reason I am accused of being all sorts of things throughout this entire thread by many people. Not just you.

The theory that this was going to be done to everyone in the country is completely false.

Just because I can see some benefit to early detection and treatment of mental illnesses does not make me a liberal or a druggie.

I agree with you 100%. There will be alot of wrong diagnosises.School teachers are not qualified to handle this. A couple of weeks ago a friend's son who is diagnosed with Bartters Syndrom had an almost life threatening situation with her son. He was hyper in class and was punished by having to eat his lunch in the principle's office for a week. After a week of this, the nine year old finally told his Mother what was happening as he was terribly upset. For her son being hyper means a low potassium. She took him to the ER that night and his potassium level was 1.6 which is critical. When he went back to school she took his lab report to the principle. Never once did the principle or the teacher think about looking at his medical record that is on file at the school. They just assumed it was a behavioral problem and decided to treat it as such. Nine times out of ten hyperactivity is a behavioral problem but this one time it wasn't a behavioral problem but instead a medical problem.

What do you do when some Leftist teacher has your kid medicated because he refuses to believe in global warming hysteria?

I very much believe that there are people in the education system who are so politically committed to the Left, that they would stoop to destroying a bright Conservative kid that shows signs of growing up to be a societal leader. The majority would not -- but how many school system personnel will your kid come into contact with over the course of 12-13 years of public education? It only takes one