I just can't come up with a better caption than the one at the link
OCEAN CITY, N.J. (TND) — A bizarre and gruesome tragedy played out when police got a 911 call from a man who told the dispatcher "he was bipolar and had just killed his mother."
Because they closed the institutions, starting back in the 1970's. "They" means an alliance of mushy-headed liberals that thought it was mean to lock up the crazy folks, and conservatives that thought they saw a chance to cut costs. _Both_ of them were wrong. All you have to do to tell how wrong the liberals were is to look at how a schizophrenic who is too crazy to stay on his meds lives without Nurse Ratchet forcing the pills down him every day. But the conservatives didn't consider how many of the people dumped on the streets would have to be jailed - that costs as much as keeping them in a state hospital, _but_ they come out of jail crazier than they went in, so the costs keep building up.
And why wasn't he institutionalized???
ReplyDeleteBecause they closed the institutions, starting back in the 1970's. "They" means an alliance of mushy-headed liberals that thought it was mean to lock up the crazy folks, and conservatives that thought they saw a chance to cut costs. _Both_ of them were wrong. All you have to do to tell how wrong the liberals were is to look at how a schizophrenic who is too crazy to stay on his meds lives without Nurse Ratchet forcing the pills down him every day. But the conservatives didn't consider how many of the people dumped on the streets would have to be jailed - that costs as much as keeping them in a state hospital, _but_ they come out of jail crazier than they went in, so the costs keep building up.
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ReplyDeleteThey don't instutionalize anyone anymore till they kill someone innocent.
ReplyDeleteThat's not mental illness, that's demonic posession.
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