http://tvnewslies.org/blog/?p=380 Helping to Bring the Truth to the People Thu, 23 May 2013 19:12:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://tvnewslies.org/blog/?p=380&cpage=1#comment-635 rbank Sat, 20 May 2006 19:31:03 +0000 http://tvnewslies.org/blog/?p=380#comment-635 Jesse, I work with the mentally ill. The programs are getting cut that make their lifes livable. I don't think that the government liberated these people when they put them out of the hospitals. They are the victims of society. In Michigan John Engler took the first steps to making mental health a private health care system by forming mental health authorities. Mental health workers are underpaid and over worked. WHen the clients first left the hospitals (Many who were said to be unfit to live in the community) they were placed in foster homes. These are privately run. The provider gets all but $44 of the clients money. They basically get four hots and a cot. Most of the food they are given is boxed and cheap. THe staff that is hired is barely out of high school and some appear to be special ed. I have seen some of the providers even hire felons to take care of these very fragile people. THe authories have resulted in mangled care, i.e. more high paid administration staff but less line staff to work for the clients. We have lots of fancy furniture and booklets but not many programs that really help the clients. The new trend is for these people to live semi independently or independently. THe good thing about that is that the government saves money. Instead of giving them $790 to pay for their foster care placement they will recieve $590 to live off. THere are lots of specialized private programs that charge lots of money coming to the area but basically they are the same thing as the foster homes except there is more uneducated staff to talk to each other and ignore the clients. In the mean time the programs that currently make things better for these people are being cut so that the richest 1% can have more money. I'm really worried about the mentally ill vets that are coming home from the war. They deservc the best and will not get it. But although I can not change the world I do work hard to try to make the world a better place for the 53 people that I work with. Jesse, I work with the mentally ill. The programs are getting cut that make their lifes livable. I don’t think that the government liberated these people when they put them out of the hospitals. They are the victims of society. In Michigan John Engler took the first steps to making mental health a private health care system by forming mental health authorities. Mental health workers are underpaid and over worked. WHen the clients first left the hospitals (Many who were said to be unfit to live in the community) they were placed in foster homes. These are privately run. The provider gets all but $44 of the clients money. They basically get four hots and a cot. Most of the food they are given is boxed and cheap. THe staff that is hired is barely out of high school and some appear to be special ed. I have seen some of the providers even hire felons to take care of these very fragile people. THe authories have resulted in mangled care, i.e. more high paid administration staff but less line staff to work for the clients. We have lots of fancy furniture and booklets but not many programs that really help the clients. The new trend is for these people to live semi independently or independently. THe good thing about that is that the government saves money. Instead of giving them $790 to pay for their foster care placement they will recieve $590 to live off. THere are lots of specialized private programs that charge lots of money coming to the area but basically they are the same thing as the foster homes except there is more uneducated staff to talk to each other and ignore the clients. In the mean time the programs that currently make things better for these people are being cut so that the richest 1% can have more money. I’m really worried about the mentally ill vets that are coming home from the war. They deservc the best and will not get it. But although I can not change the world I do work hard to try to make the world a better place for the 53 people that I work with.

]]> http://tvnewslies.org/blog/?p=380&cpage=1#comment-634 kershen121 Sat, 20 May 2006 17:05:18 +0000 http://tvnewslies.org/blog/?p=380#comment-634 Thank you for that stirring editorial. I would love to say more, but you have just about said it all. Thank you for that stirring editorial. I would love to say more, but you have just about said it all.

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