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Undoing the Reagan legacy
RaceBannon
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I kid. It's been a running joke for decades that there is nothing that can be done with the rampant mental illness known as being unhoused, or homeless, or suffering from addiction or being mentally ill. We'd like to help but Reagan closed all the mental hospitals. Best we can do is spend billions making everyone rich and housed except the unhoused and poor.
Well Trump wants to reopen treatment and hospitals and allow the homeless to be housed there even if they might not want to. As you can expect the leftist defenders of the Reagan legacy are already up in arms about that. Certainly there is caution required to prevent abuse of any involuntary commitment and Nurse Ratchett should stay retired but we really do need to do something
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At least 50% of homelessness solved with the reintroduction of institutions. Maybe more.
The HIC weeps.
Make hobos great again.
Nothing could be done for 40 years after that heartless monster Reagan cruelly cut mental institutions.
Now that Trump floats the idea of more mental institutions and care facilities to try and reduce homelessness and mental illness/substance abuse, the reactive Left will fight it because Trump.
So predictable. “Why homelessness is a good thing” will become a narrative, and the Dem media will find some people doing it by choice, and who they will claim are thriving no matter the truth, as the face of homelessness in America.
One thing the dem homeless industrial complex doesn't do is talk about the success in cutting down the number of homeless. When your solution for too many pigeons is to spread out more pigeon food guess what is going to happen.
We only have 5% of the mental health beds we used to have, I can tell you from experience loons get taken in and are out in a few hours. Medicated. Talking about people that say they hear voices telling them to kill people kind of loons.
I expect King Co to respond by bumping the sales tax to 15%
No way they allow the faucet to be turned off without a fight.
The gutting of The Mental Health Systems Act of 1980 was very much a bipartisan effort. RR gets way too much of the blame. And it's nice to see you all recognize that an expanded and forceful government effort is called for. I don't really care what some rambling paranoid schizophrenic wants—my responses to Sludge through the years should serve as proof of that.
No rent control EO I see.
I think it was a long process of emptying sanitariums.
The era of deinstitutionalization saw a massive decline in the number of patients residing in state and county psychiatric institutions, falling from over 500,000 in 1955 to about 37,000 in the 2010s.
A lot was due to antipsychotic drugs. Prior to that there was no means of stabilizing the psychosis. I read Listening to Prozac back when it was popular.
We actually agree on something. More courts saying loons have rights than RR. We agree you're a wing nut too.
We've wasted billions on demcrat government forceful action and the problem is exponentially worse so I don't see any agreement there
Try 90% plus are substance abuse issues.
California alone spent over $20 billion of their taxpayers’ money to increase homelessness as the end result, but also did enrich the political-donor class via NGOs, laundered campaign donations, and contracts by cronyism.
Excellent point on government involvement when Democrats run it, @HHusky.
The problem with the use of antipsychotic drugs is that the patient while much less psychotic doesn't like the feeling of near sanity and they either quit taking the drugs on purpose or because they remain so screwed up that they are incapable of following a drug taking regimen including getting prescription renewals. The result is what we have today. People can either take action based on reality or they can take action/inaction based on false premises that they use to virtue signal. That pretty much describes the political difference between the conservatives and classic liberals and leftards both high and low.
Or $12/gallon gas
My experience is that they drug them and turn them lose. Right back out on the street, One dose and out the door. They even give them a bus token to go back to where they got arrested in the first place. That doesn't solve any problems.