[lbo-talk] California dreamin'

[Wojtek S]

RE: "In 2007, the Department of Mental Health developed guidelines for
counties and dictated that the 20 percent would go to help people who
had never been diagnosed with mental illness or even shown any
evidence of mental illness. The idea was to promote mental wellness,
not just treat mental disorders."

[WS:]  I dunno, but it sounds like a call for austerity measures in
disguise.  I see nothing wrong in spending money on prevention, it is
small fraction of what is being spent on prisons i.e. "treatment."
Many of these prevention programs do not indeed "treat" mental or
emotional disorders, they just improve the quality of life of people
who suffer from these disorders, in a large part because their lives
lacked decent quality to being with.  So I see nothing wrong in
programs trying to improve it.  I'd rather see tax dollar spent on
yoga or horseback riding classes than on prisons or the military.

-- 
Wojtek

"An anarchist is a neoliberal without money."