Why cut these services?!
Is Florida going to add more police, social workers, ER doctors and etc deal with the consequences?
Is Florida going to add more police, social workers, ER doctors and etc deal with the consequences?
People with mental issues don't make political donations, rarely vote, and can't defend themselves. QED.
[1] We can argue about which was really the the last defensive war fought by the US, but by any reasonable measure it is at least almost gone from living memory.
states don't spend any money on defense
sounds like you had something to say, but got lost along the way
Or perhaps you are choosing to interpret my words in a way that leads to a silly result.
The much more obvious reading starts with noting that the party ruling Florida is the same party that also happens to have policy positions that are of a piece at the local, state and national level positions.
- If you're playing that game where overstating things for political effect because you [...], have fun, but I don't want to play.
- If you actually believe that, either your priorities are so very far removed from mine that we have nothing to say to each other, or you have blinded yourself to a huge array of very real differences with very real effects on very real people. In which case, find someone else to argue with; I prefer to debate politics with people who live in the real world.
This is GOP 101.
Never elect a Republican governor. See MI, ME, FL, etc, etc.
The Community Mental Health act was fully funded at the time it was passed, to the tune of $330 million, and received almost $2 billion over the next decade. It was an example of an INCREASE in federal funding for mental health, put forth by Democrats, and bitterly opposed by Republicans.
Individual states, with Republican blessing, were the culprits in not continuing to fund local clinics. Then in 1980, Republican Ronald Reagan changed federal mental health funding to make it a block grant, spendable by states any old way they chose. And many chose NOT to spend it on mental health. Not content to turn Californians with mental illness out in the street (which he did as California governor), he decided he'd do that to America at large.
Don't try to blame Dems for standard Republican obstructionism that damaged and continues to damage public health.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Mental_Health_Act
First, defunding and not funding are two different things.
Second, congress has to fund it, not the POTUS.
Third, you're one of those "they're both the same" but they're not both the same.
Followed by the end of it: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/florida-declines-to-appeal-furth...
no. Like all the others it will add more prisons. Prison guards unions and commercial prison providers are doing exceptionally well financially and the prison guard unions are actually the biggest and most powerful lobbyists, at least in CA.
There is no such thing as decrease of spending, there are only increase and redistribution - benefiting the most powerful of course.
http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert...
Edit: I can't find any primary sources regarding lobbying by the CCPOA, but I did find a blog on a site called Union Watch that makes the claim about CCPOA being the largest lobbyist, and then I saw that quotes in Reason, and the a lot of people quoting Reason. So, right-wing echo chamber in action as far as I can tell.
And when it come to right/left wing - while both are unions, teachers union and prison guard union are on the opposite sides, so pigeon-hole accordingly.
it isn't exactly full order, so you kind of right in questioning my statements at their absolute face value. It is more like partial order here - oil industry and the guards have orthogonal interests. Except for the one aspect - guards consume state budget while oil industry is a source of it. And as we know from the business community whining - CA is considered "not business friendly"/"high tax state". Though of course i don't think the guards and oil clash directly here - the guards' politics is more about redistribution of the budget away from the other categories. I.e the oil and the guards have their own big fields to play, and when it comes to their own fields, the guards have much higher success than oil in their respective fields in CA.
And, man, $22 millions is just a rounding error for either of the players - the CA prison budget is $10B.
If you remember the beginning of Schwarzenegger's time, the first thing he did was taking on the biggest problem of the state - the guards union. He failed. No surprise here given the nature of the task. Still my personal great respect to him - he was the only one who even have ever tried to do it.
Brown has actually reduced the prison population, notably by reforming sentencing laws and reclassifying many crimes as misdemeanors. The California prison population now stands at a level lower than in 1996, and a per-capita level lower than in 1992.