Jimmy Carter created the Mental Health Crisis

Clinton put the icing on the cake when he pushed a ban on the use of restraints in mental institutions and extended care facilities, and ruled that mentally ill people could only be held in a facility if they granted permission.
My social circles at that time were mental health, healthcare, social workers, law enforcement and search and rescue, when the biggest topic of discussion was that they could no longer assist people in staying on their meds, nursing homes started experiencing catastrophic falls out of beds- broken bones, concussions and deaths-because they couldn't use restraints, NOT EVEN SIDE RAILS ON THE BEDS. People who had no ability to care for themselves had to be released when they were asked, "Do you want to stay here to receive care?" It wouldn't be unreasonable to say, "No, I don't WANT to be here," but for their own good they were better off with treatment.
Search and rescue devoted a lot of resources trying to locate missing people and doing body recoveries of mentally ill people who didn't survive without care, or died of exposure.
Every long term mental health facility (with the exception of Alzheimer's Care units) in our area has been closed since the 1990s. We have crisis centers, some with overnight care, but if someone needs long term mental health care to get through a crisis, they have to be transferred to a facility on the eastern slope of Colorado, 5-6 hours from friends or family.
Giving a mentally ill person a choice, a plastic tent and a sleeping bag is not compassion.

Clinton! Clinton! Clinton!
We hear it all the time on these pages, but with you, you make it too personal.

You were around back then, so there is no way you did not know that Reagan's major product
other than the Crack Cocaine Epidemic was homelessness.

I don't like Reagan either. But the homeless crisis and the spree shooter crisis were created by Jimmy "Mainstream the Mentally Ill" Carter.

no

So...if you were in mental healthcare in the 90s, how do you not know it was Reagan and not Carter who removed funding for the mental healthcare system?

Because in the 80s Carter cut funding to it. I watched his "mainstreaming the mentally ill " speech on live TV. I remember my grandpa saying "just watch. They'll cut funding for mental health and nobody will get a tax cut or refund out of it, and they'll pocket that money.

It was Reagan who was President in the 80s. Carter was President in 80. He left office in January of 81.

Reagan and the Republicans cut all the funding.

What you remember is wrong.

He was a failure in so many ways

You...you think Carter closed & emptied the asylums?

Carter?

You think it was Carter that signed the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981, which repealed most of the Mental Health Systems Act (MHSA) of 1980?

The Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 removed federal funding from national mental health facilities and forced the states to fund it on their own.

Just on the surface, that sounds like something a liberal President would do?

I know it was Carter Boy. I'm in my 60s. I lived through those times. Lol. Ill take that over fibs from that Madcow guy on BS Now or whatever they're calling that channel this week

Then what you know is wrong. Factually wrong. Provably wrong. Who was President in 81? Who signed that bill? Who was president President in 80 and signed the MHSA?

Oh great, another POS who has no empathy for those with mental illness and thinks of them as monsters who need to be eradicated
Love to see it

No. I think the mentally ill deserve treatment in asylums where they are off the streets - where Carter put em. And that sociopathic teens need to be straight jacketed in asylums to prevent them shooting up schools and malls with guns they can't legally buy due to their age or arrest records.