What a stupid ass statement. Conservatives and the evil of service privatization closed down 95% of in patient beds in the last 30 years. SoLiberals closed them down my ass. Liberals do a lot of stupid things but privatization is created a mess of outpatient health care, elder care, foster care, and prisons. Government service privatization in the name of economy but in terms of incredible enrichment of the private sector has damaged government services tremendously.
Thank, Jake, for proving once again, that Romney supporters are liberals.
I remember when teh courts ruled that you can't institutionalize the mentally ill UNLESS they are a danger. Now back before then, you had looney bins, they kept them medicated and harmless. Then they made "One Flew over the Cookoos Nest" and everyone thought it was horrible that we locked these poor people up when they weren't dangerous and as impishly likeable as Jack Nicholson.
I remember it well, around 1978 or so, when you used to be able to walk down 63rd Street in Chicago, until they emptied out the loony bins, and you had a bunch of these people, walking around cluelessly, not knowing what had hit them.