The ones living in tent camps indefinitely are not the ones sheltering at Wheeler. And "bus them to the libs"? That's where they are! (Bloomington) It sounds like you have nothing to complain about. Your plan has worked perfectly!The ones not inclined to troublemaking don't live in tent camps indefinitely.
Personally I think we should bus them to the libs.
Agreed. Forcibly taking from others in the form of taxation is not charity. Charities that have to mind every penny tend to be pretty good stewards of where that money goes. Government acting in the place of charities…not so much.That’s why it should be tackled by private money and not government money. Private money can evaluate the need and say “no” when required.
https://fox59.com/news/bloomingtons...ess-is-top-priority-following-recent-murders/Thomson said the biggest challenge is providing the physical housing to get people of the streets. The other part of that is getting them access to long-term mental health treatment which she says has been lacking since the closure of state mental institutions.
“Since the Reagan-era, when we shut down our large state hospitals…there’s simply no place to go if you need long-term care,” Thomson said. “What we’ve done is dismantle the care, flawed as it was, and we’ve left people on the streets.”
Dear leader is hiding, okThe mayor is in hiding today...ie staff meetings and no photo ops. R keep feeding me information.
Clayton Cramer, he of 2nd amendment scholarship fame (altho I suspect a lot of folks don’t know of his contributions), covered deinstitutionalization in his book:…
Despite the obligatory Democrat jab at Reagan, I've been thinking pretty much the same thing for a long while. I guess it's true what they say about broken clocks.
Thats goodClayton Cramer, he of 2nd amendment scholarship fame (altho I suspect a lot of folks don’t know of his contributions), covered deinstitutionalization in his book:
My Brother Ron: A Personal and Social History of the Deinstitutionalization of the Mentally Ill https://a.co/d/4XAX5Qd
Yes, it wasn’t an Reagan initiative, he was just governor of California and later President when the mental health industry decided that state mental institutions were cruel and unusual punishment, and patients should be “mainstreamed” and treated at neighborhood clinics. Also the legal ability to forcibly commit people got substantially restricted. There were congressional hearings on the subject and it became the national fad and the feds started dumping it money.
State governments looking for places to cut budget said, “Ok, closing the state asylums will save our $$, so let’s close them.” The idea was mentally ill should be mainstreamed and treated at neighborhood clinics. What happened though was the focus of psychiatry/psychology, and the clinics that were set up shifted to a different set of lesser but more pervasive mental problems, and the people who were truly incapable of making rational decisions got shunted to the streets, without anything replacing the commitment laws and asylums to deal with them.
There were some awful things that happened in asylums, and no doubt some people wrongly committed, but I think it’s hard to argue that they or the rest of us are better off today.
I believe it was Cramer that calculated the incarceration rates around 1900 and then again at the time he wrote the book which I believe was the late 90s or early 2000. If you look at the rate of imprisonment, we imprison people at a much higher rate nowadays than we did in the early 1900s. But if you include both of those housed in mental asylums and prisons during the early 1900s and compared to today’s asylums plus prison, the rate is actually pretty much the same. we’ve just moved the seriously mentally ill from asylums into prisons via the street and judicial process.
Let's get this thread back on track: Time to continue bashing the left-wing crazy Bloomington mayor: https://www.facebook.com/citybloomington Please let your feelings be known and don't leave anything out!
I suggested this when a friend bemoaned all the room in churches that goes “unused” 6 days a week. I suggested he (and the other folks liking his post) probably had a couple of spare bedrooms in their homes that aren’t being used—be the change you want to see in others. Got unfriended.
Did you see the newest non solution?The mayor is in hiding today...ie staff meetings and no photo ops. R keep feeding me information.
I hear California is warm this time of year.Did you see the newest non solution?
Warming areas, only open 8am to 6pm.. because its not colder at night or something.
"Were sorry if you freeze overnight"
I suggested buying one way tickets to Hawaii earlier lolI hear California is warm this time of year.
Send 1 or 2 to her house each night so she can clean up her onw mess.I suggested that each resident be expected to take in 1 or 2 “unhoused”, as they are being called. To not do so is uncaring.
Sad that you can’t enlarge the text size to take up the entire screen.Thankfully Bloomington is tackling the important issues. Like making sure bars are forced to have Closed Captioning on their TVs.
This is supposed to be "inclusive" for deaf people, but when sports are on TV at bars, the sound is already off for everyone.
Bloomington bars must turn on closed captioning under new law
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — A first-of-its-kind law in Indiana will require public places in Bloomington, such as restaurants, bars and doctor’s offices, to turn on the closed captioning on their TV …fox59.com