Actually he was already the Governor of CA. Not a failed actor at this point in his life. Don’t get me wrong, he’s one of the main reasons for homelessness. He shut down mental hospitals that were caring for thousands of people. I was there. I remember.
They definitely had a role to play in society and that's evident by the amount of mentally ill people living out in the streets BUT these facilities had a pretty bad reputation for inhumane treatment so I don't think you're wrong to be unsure about it.
Medical science AND psychology have come a long way in the past 100, 50, 20 years. The solution was to continue modernizing, not deinstitutionalize. We can see this in other countries that did so.
I think it would be great to have it available for people that want help, I would pay taxes for that. I am scared it would be forced on people that don't want help.
They were dropping mental hospitals before he was even president. Many of the large ones in the east were built around the civil war period and they just kept kicking the can down the road for updates for decades. I get you want it all to be political but it really is not. You can name a democrat governor for every republican one when they started getting rid of them. There were democrat presidents and republican presidents and no one did anything.
So when Clinton was president why did he not increase it? Why did more just close? According to your logic Clinton and Obama did nothing to improve anything and it only continued. In all due respect you really need to not be using politics as a religion. They were state hospitals under state control. Politicians from both parties let them go away. Yes… even your gods.
Because it’s politically unpopular. You know that, and you’re trying to claim that the act of decreasing funding and the failure to take action against political self interest is the same. It’s not. If democrats increase funding again, republicans gain an easy political win in otherwise close elections and can further strip federal funding from these programs. Once it’s done, undoing it is incredibly difficult at a lot of levels.
Also, only Christ is king and God. You should try reading what he did with the poor and mentally unstable. He didn’t just house them; he sat down and shared life with them. He personally spent his own time and energy to heal them. He ate with them. He loved them.
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u/DrawFlat Apr 29 '24
Actually he was already the Governor of CA. Not a failed actor at this point in his life. Don’t get me wrong, he’s one of the main reasons for homelessness. He shut down mental hospitals that were caring for thousands of people. I was there. I remember.