[SmithL]

Your tax dollars at work.

[Gay State Conservative]

So,they'll close the psych unit.Problem solved.

[paul51]

If they were to follow through on removing our funding we don't clean up our operation, it would essentially close down our health system

It helps to be focused on the correct problem

[dljordan]

I'll tell you a story. I worked at a state institution for the retarded (that was the term back then) in the severely retarded dormitory. We had some state inspectors doing a walk-through of the facility one day and a really pretty young social worker stopped to coo at one of the residents. This guy was Satan incarnate and I told the lady (who by the way wouldn't listen to anything we said because she obviously knew everything) "you'd better watch out, the guy is dangerous". She blew me off and the next thing you know he'd reached up her skirt and had her by the crotch. She was screaming like a Banshee while my partner and I tried to get her loose. We put him in a lockup while the lady was blaming us for everything that happened. She went to the window of the room and started baby talking him again and he crapped in his hand (one of his favorite tricks) and threw it on her dress. I laughed for days.

You can't deal with some of these people like you would a normal person. I'm not talking about abusing them but sometimes you have to get rough and I would have loved to have some pepper spray when some of those dudes were going upside my head. Mostly I just felt sorry for them because their lives were hell.