re: Mental health services proposed for elimination in Louisiana budget

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No need to waste hundreds of millions of dollars on the least valuable members of society.

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And when these least valuable members can't afford their meds anymore, have fun when they break into your home high on speed to kill you.

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What's not underfunded that should be cut?

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I honestly couldn't tell you... I can tell you for certain that there is no doubt waste scattered throughout the budget.

The dedicated funds need to all be revisited along with the constitution.

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Lots of things will have to be cut to balance the budget, this is their share

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I get what you are saying, but I'm saying from my prospective and dealing seeing the mental health issues in my parish first hand, I would hope that they could reallocate the budget to increase by 7% other than decrease.... i would bet there is less critical money to be shaved else where other than this arena, again look at the dedicated funds


I think we ageee that the over all opperating budget for our tiny state is unreal.


And yes SNAP is funded by the Feds.... I wish they would somehow throw us that money in a block grant and let us spend it for the good of the people how we see fit. Set up commodity sites and take the rest of the money and spend it on something like mental health... but the Feds would rather us use it all on EBT cards to subsidize big grocery stores. Walmart, Target, and Rouses are keeping their doors open with la purchase cards.

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Maybe they should look at operating more efficiently instead of wanting more money?

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maybe so, obviously I don't know the inner workings of their budget. I just know from the outside looking in it's something that needs to be ramped up, either by being much more efficient or by the budget.

All anacdotal obviously. And it may not be st crisis levels like it was a decade ago but it doesn't need to fall back to that level.

Wait, you realize the $14B is the entire fiscal budget for DHH and Medicaid right and not all allocated to mental health?

I promise Orleans parish's couple mental health facilities aren't burning through $1.2B a year


ETA: also the $235M cut will balloon to almost $1B without the federal funds matched for the year under the expansion of Medicaid

Of course but 14 billion is huge even for all those services

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ETA: also the $235M cut will balloon to almost $1B without the federal funds matched for the year under the expansion of Medicaid

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Yes I figured that in when I said it's only a 6.5% cut

Belated ngs on the Politics Board

This doesn't need to be cut

why does our budget suck?

We need to cut higher Ed, mainly the useless degree programs

Either that or build more jails

Not a fan of cutting those kinds of services. And I don’t know all about these budget issues like I’d like to, but I do know we’re still trying to get in the positives on the budget, you can only tax so much in this state, and we’ve got to cut from somewhere.

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LSUSatsuma

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....lol...lol..lol

He was a pretty good troll. I wonder who is his reincarnation n?