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Originally Posted by Boss
Actually you are mistaken. Pres. Regan was the first to cut mental services. Along with drug services.
Regan was in early dementia and created more problems.
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The media has spread this lie far and wide. When you own the media, you can make up any story you want, so they have lied and attributed Jerry Brown's homeless fiasco to Reagan.
The crisis began under Gov. Jerry Brown in 1979.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archi...-db8622dd01a6/
Crisis Grows in Calif. Mental Hospitals
April 16, 1979
The mental health system that Californians once prided themselves on has become a subject of intense controversy within the state.
Under
Gov. Edmund G. "Jerry" Brown Jr., the critics are contending, the system has deteriorated to the point that thousands of patients are being pushed out of mental hospitals to find their way through the inhospitable worlds of skid rows, flophouses and county jails.
"It's a national scandal, an outrage," protests Dr. Paul O'Rourke, a longtime consultant on mental health for the state's bipartisan Little Hoover Commission. "People who need help have been put out to be beaten up, robbed, persecuted and exploited."
Condemnation of Brown's handling of the state mental health system comes from a broad spectrum of professional and political opinion...
Los Angeles health director Elpers
denounces the Brown administration for eliminating thousands of state hospital beds without adequately funding alternative services in the localities.
The
Brown Administration has systematically emptied the wards of the hospitals to the point where its capacity has dropped from a high of over 4,000 beds a decade ago to approximately 1,000 today...
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