(#5527) California passed the mental health care and homeless bill into law

      The vote was close throughout whether this bill would pass even in a democratic stronghold like California. Even as we democrats are all for helping our society through the ills and obstacles of republican uncare we are still fiscally responsible. This law is based upon a bond which is a loan and needs to be repaid in the future with interest. So the vote shows us the split between our care for our fellow human beings and our concerns for affording that care in this particular form. Well as you can see the better part of our natures won over the concerns of our pocketbook. For that I am humbly excited. Because this law will actually start to reverse the increased homelessness here in our state and give other states a template in how they treat their own homelessness problems.
     When republican ronald reagan worked to eliminate mental health care for the mentally challenged in the 1960's our streets were the logical home for these folks who could not assimilate into our society with any cohesion. We here in California have been paying the price of this cavalier approach to another problem republicans would rather bury their heads in the sand over. Well in the intervening years these folks have become a staple on our streets and a harm to themselves. With even more economic mayhem republicans are causing; the chances of the working middle poor class of ending up on the streets themselves with the mentally challenged is only increasing. Between the mentally challenged and the culture of drug and alcohol addiction stubbornness a solution was needed and this law will be that attempt.
     Creating beds and outpatient treatment options to serve to diagnose and treat the root causes of mental instability is a start. Our society has a part in this as our societies are not functioning as free and fair environments that offer opportunities to all but that is for another law to be created. This one however is a major accomplishment and will start to show that our desire to solve our problems is greater than our desire to ignore them. I would hope republicans would start to realize this and join the rest of we democrats in being efficient and intelligent about solutions that are out there instead of fighting us when we only have what is best for all of us at heart.