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We've had the same thing happen here in Australia, though I think it may have been started under a Labor (ie Left) government. |
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Tony Gravagno wrote: Mike, Ronald Reagan did the exact same thing here in the USA. I believe it was when he was California State Governor. Great way to cut government expenditures - release the problem into the community. Gee, why didn't he do that with prisons? I guess you have to be really conservative to do that. Uh oh, I better not give W and bright ideas. OMG, was that a political comment? Slap! Back to work.T michael (AT) preece (DOT) net wrote: PS. The Conservative government in the UK had this really bad idea a while back. They called it "Care in the community". What it really amounted to was a way to save government expenditure on psychiatric healthcare by simply emptying out the psychiatric wards onto the streets. Consequently the public at large was suddenly faced with having to deal with unhinged individuals on a routine basis. People didn't want - and weren't trained - to deal with severly disturbed individuals, they just wanted to get on with their lives as best they could. As a result many of the former patients were subjected to violence and some of them inflicted violence on others. Didn't do anyone any good. |
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Dan There are hindreds of other agencies out there and most of the jobs they offer are outside of Pick. Have you considered cross-training. If you want to get up to speed with relational databases maybe you should get into direct email conversation with someone like bbadour (AT) golden (DOT) net Mike. |
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Dan There are hindreds of other agencies out there and most of the jobs they offer are outside of Pick. Have you considered cross-training. If you want to get up to speed with relational databases maybe you should get into direct email conversation with someone like bbadour (AT) golden (DOT) net Mike. |
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Mike, Ronald Reagan did the exact same thing here in the USA. I believe it was when he was California State Governor. Great way to cut government expenditures - release the problem into the community. Gee, why didn't he do that with prisons? I guess you have to be really conservative to do that. Uh oh, I better not give W and bright ideas. OMG, was that a political comment? Slap! Back to work.T michael (AT) preece (DOT) net wrote: PS. The Conservative government in the UK had this really bad idea a while back. They called it "Care in the community". What it really amounted to was a way to save government expenditure on psychiatric healthcare by simply emptying out the psychiatric wards onto the streets. Consequently the public at large was suddenly faced with having to deal with unhinged individuals on a routine basis. People didn't want - and weren't trained - to deal with severly disturbed individuals, they just wanted to get on with their lives as best they could. As a result many of the former patients were subjected to violence and some of them inflicted violence on others. Didn't do anyone any good. |
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