Budgetary Mandates
After yet another evening at work, and while reading another of the countless articles written about the VT shootings, I was struck with a thought, when I took in yet another comment about someone stating how the shooter had feel through the cracks of the mental health system. That thought is this. Who is going to pay for all this? Will this be yet another example of a knee-jerk legislative period that federally mandates a solution looking for a problem, without actually doing anything to fund the legislation? Or, will it be much like is going on now health budgets being slashed (especially in the mental health fields) all over the country on federal, state and local levels ? We cannot deal with the people that we have now in “ the system ” , let alone add to it by making colleges and other public institutions add to it with anyone that writes a disturbing play, or who may or may not be a threat to themselves or others , etc. Most people think of these type of situations as an ei...