Title: The OSB Politico: Revisionist History, Mental Health Patients and Ronald Reagan
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Thursday, January 13, 2011
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Content: The OSB Politico: Revisionist History, Mental Health Patients and Ronald Reagan
Thursday, January 13, 2011
14 comments: smmanning October 8, 2012 at 7:58 AM
No there is no constitutional basis for confining mentally ill persons. Why do that? Why not just leave them in the street to go hungry, be ill, cause trouble, fight, be victims? Why not just abandon individuals who can't care for themselves, after all it's not our problem right? Yes there were some issues with mental health hospitals, but if you had actually been around when this happened you would know that Reagan said that it was their families problems, and if the family couldn't take care of them that wasn't the problem of the state. So, don't call it revisionist history. Don't say Reagan was saving money for the State because it is far more expensive to put these individuals in jail, to care for them at emergency rooms, to clean up the mess their encampments leave behind, to prosecute those who loose control and hurt or kill people. That is not revisionist history, it is just true.