Damage of conservative policies on California

D. Clark - We should all use your ignorance to prove out uninformed and ideologically the democrat party and democrats have become. So if you keep regurgitating your lies, your fellow sheople will believe. it.

Ronald Regan did not close even one mental institution.

So who closed the hospitals?

"The patients in the hospitals did by exercising their new freedoms under a landmark California law enacted 50 years ago that created a “Mental Health Patient’s Bill Of Rights” that became the model for many other states in this country. You could say mental health patients after the law was passed, voted with their feet: They left their rooms and walked out the hospital’s front doors, never to return.

Two legislative forces actually determined the fate of mental health care in this state. You might call them acts with unintended consequences. Here’s the history.

In 1967, the Lanterman–Petris–Short Act (LPS Act) a so-called “bill of rights” for those with mental health problems passed the Democratic-controlled Assembly 77-1. The Senate approved it by similar margins. Then-Gov. Reagan signed it into law." https://theava.com/archives/226539

"In the 1960s, Reagan opposed Medicare for two principal reasons: participation was mandatory, and because Medicare spent scarce taxpayer funds to subsidize coverage for wealthy people — even millionaires — who didn’t need the help. But Reagan explicitly supported the role of government in subsidizing care for every American who could not otherwise afford it."

Thanks for the laugh, "D". I'm a 3rd generation Californian, my grandfather helped build the Bay Bridge, can I opine? California has not had any conservative presence in the state government for 2 1/2 decades now. Crime, homelessness, our broken public education system, our high taxes for little in return- what can you say has gotten better since then?

And please stop spreading the ridiculous myth that Reagan "closed the mental institutions". The 1967 Lanterman Petris Short Act was a BI-PARTISAN bill sponsored and supported by both Republicans and Democrats in the state legislature and signed by then Governor Reagan, which required due process for involuntary mental health commitments and ended indefinite holds (among other things.) Please, though, if you wish to reopen mental institutions and return to 1960's involuntary commitment policies, petition our Democrat super-majority to pass a bill doing just that! They have had decades to do so, very strange they have not made this change and prefer to blame someone who was governor 60 years ago.

Hey D. Clark, where have you been this past decade and a half? We’ve seen what the disastrous policies implemented by Democrat governors have done to California. I find it extraordinary that otherwise rational people believe that anything will change for the better if Democrats remain in charge. Voters get the government they deserve. Meanwhile, I hope the election isn’t stolen from Steve Hilton and Hilton will make even more massive cuts to welfare programs supporting criminals and terrorists who’ve invaded California.