Living The Dream In San Diego

[Old Man Jingles]

We need old school locking em' up.

If by that, you mean forced commitment to a 'mental asylum' ... I agree.

Deinstitutionalization, while implemented in Western countries with good intentions, has resulted in homeless people who do not have access to psychiatric drugs or refuse to take them, has established a separate class of people who are mostly despised by the general citizenry. This ostracization is done mostly out of fear.

As is often the case, deinstitutionalization while implemented with good intentions, has resulted in a growing problem in society.

 

[Wally]

If by that, you mean forced commitment to a 'mental asylum' ... I agree.

Deinstitutionalization, while implemented in Western countries with good intentions, has resulted in homeless people who do not have access to psychiatric drugs or refuse to take them, has established a separate class of people who are mostly despised by the general citizenry. This ostracization is done mostly out of fear.

As is often the case, deinstitutionalization while implemented with good intentions, has resulted in a growing problem in society.

I thought they let them out to save money?

 

[Old Man Jingles]

I thought they let them out to save money?

Mental Health Systems Act of 1980 (MHSA) was United States legislation signed by President Jimmy Carter which provided grants to community mental health centers.
During the following Ronald Reagan administration, the United States Congress repealed most of the law.

The National Government, as is the custom under Socialists (i.e. Democrats), over-reached.
And Republicans, as is their custom, dumped an ill-begotten National program back on the States.

 

[oldngray]

Mental Health Systems Act of 1980 (MHSA) was United States legislation signed by President Jimmy Carter which provided grants to community mental health centers.
During the following Ronald Reagan administration, the United States Congress repealed most of the law.

The National Government, as is the custom under Socialists (i.e. Democrats), over-reached.
And Republicans, as is their custom, dumped an ill-begotten National program back on the States.

I had forgotten that started under Carter. What I remembered most was it happening under Reagan. Putting so many barely functional people on the street was hardly a good idea.

 

[Old Man Jingles]

I had forgotten that started under Carter. What I remembered most was it happening under Reagan. Putting so many barely functional people on the street was hardly a good idea.

Yep, and it continues today with the worse of the worst being on the street until they run afoul of the police.

 

[oldngray]

Yep, and it continues today with the worse of the worst being on the street until they run afoul of the police.

Most homeless are that way because that is how they want to be. They can't function in society.

 

[Old Man Jingles]

Most homeless are that way because that is how they want to be. They can't function in society.

And the question is, as a Societal and Legal approach, can these type people be forced into an asylum for mentally challenged citizens.

One of the problems the USA is experiencing is the disproportionately high number of these mentally challenged people coming across the Southern border with Mexico.

 

[oldngray]

And the question is, as a Societal and Legal approach, can these type people be forced into an asylum for mentally challenged citizens.

One of the problems the USA is experiencing is the disproportionately high number of these mentally challenged people coming across the Southern border with Mexico.

In the mid 80's I sometimes ran a route with a big state psychiatric hospital. On Wednesdays they would let out the patient/inmates and you could watch them stumbling (thank you thorazine) down the street to Burger King to get an order of fries they paid for with pennies.

 

[Old Man Jingles]

In the mid 80's I sometimes ran a route with a big state psychiatric hospital.
On Wednesdays they would let out the patient/inmates and you could watch them stumbling (thank you thorazine) down the street to Burger King to get an order of fries they paid for with pennies.

It is called the Thorazine Shuffle ...

Stand by to stand by
Ain't no need to worry today
Thorazine shuffle make everything OK
I know how you feel
You say you need your highs and lows
But what if you could take your pain
And just let it go

Step right back and watch me now
I'll show you how it's done
Stay right here with me now
Till the damage is done
And the damage is done

Time drags by
When you're boring
Don't care what you do care what you say
There comes a time
When you got to let the monster inside you
Let him come on out, come on out and play

Ain't no need to worry today
Thorazine shuffle make everything OK

 

[oldngray]

That psychiatric hospital was built when old school methods were used for mental patients. Over 100 years old. Still had manacles on the walls in the subbasement. It was being downsized at the time and got torn down about 30 years ago.

 

[542thruNthru]

People decide they want to live in a certain place. They want to pay whatever it takes, that's their business.

Yet you felt the need to make a thread about it.

Someone is really charging people $1,100 to live in a shed | Daily Mail Online

You liberals won't quit till you make everyone conform.

 

[Wally]

Yet you felt the need to make a thread about it.
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You liberals won't quit till you make everyone conform.

Darn straight!

 

[vantexan]

It is called the Thorazine Shuffle ...

Stand by to stand by
Ain't no need to worry today
Thorazine shuffle make everything OK
I know how you feel
You say you need your highs and lows
But what if you could take your pain
And just let it go

Step right back and watch me now
I'll show you how it's done
Stay right here with me now
Till the damage is done
And the damage is done

Time drags by
When you're boring
Don't care what you do care what you say
There comes a time
When you got to let the monster inside you
Let him come on out, come on out and play

Ain't no need to worry today
Thorazine shuffle make everything OK

The Curly Shuffle is better.

 

[Old Man Jingles]

The Curly Shuffle is better.