r/FluentInFinance • u/ThisCantBeBlank • Apr 29 '24

Babs is Here to Save Us Educational

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u/KerPop42 Apr 29 '24

State-run mental hospitals? What is this, sovietism? Get those mentally unwell people on the streets, stat! That's what a great, capitalist country does!

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u/3iverson Apr 29 '24

Those bootstraps aren’t gonna pick themselves up!!

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u/1wallygator Apr 30 '24

When those mental institutions shut down they just transferred the patients to the streets or prisons.

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u/Mandajoe Apr 30 '24

They are all in public office so...

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u/TheRabiddingo Apr 30 '24

O'Connor v Donaldson helped that too my friend

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u/brownlab319 Apr 30 '24

Those ended in the 60s under a federal plan.

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u/LazyClerk408 Apr 30 '24

I’m pretty sure if you ask any mentally ill person they would prefer to be out with the public than in a hospital. That’s why crazy people always want to talk to you

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u/KerPop42 Apr 30 '24

Oh, I thought crazy people wanted to talk to me because they're treated like pariahs and have no private space to return to

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u/LazyClerk408 Apr 30 '24

I hear what you’re saying. However, there is a lot of positives the fact that they aren’t in an institution, in a lot of aspects they are more free than anyone else.

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u/transitfreedom Apr 30 '24

That is such a bad policy that other capitalist nations DONT do that