More people= more nutjobs...
More stress= more nutjobs...
Simple as that.
Gubmint is PATHETIC when it comes to helping folks that are mentally ill, near the edge, on the edge, or over the edge.
Wife's friend had the middle kid of her three that was a total nutjob... Constantly getting in trouble in school, EXTREMELY manipulative, and NEVER took ANY responsibility for ANYTHING. Got so bad the other two kids started locking themselves in their rooms and barring their door from the inside at night, because she'd tried to knock the door down or hack it down with a hatchet before... always destroying their stuff... out at all hours, couldn't keep her at home, shoplifting, etc... Gets mad when her parents try to discipline her and make her do right, calls CPS and tells them a pack of lies they believe, so they interrogate the parents and give them the third degree-- "You have to DO something..."
Parents: "She's sick... she needs help-- put her in a mental hospital... get her a psychiatrist, something-- we don't have the resources-- our insurance is tapped out" (They'd had her working with a psychiatrist/psychologist til the insurance said "we're not paying anymore" and they couldn't afford to continue)
"Can't do it" says the state...
The school calls when she gets into trouble-- demands a parent conference-- demands they "do something". Parents tell the school, "PUNISH HER! Throw her in A-school, put her in ISS, whatever it takes..." School: "No, can't do it... YOU have to "do something"... nothing happens...
She gets picked up wandering the streets at 3am after shoplifting at the local minimart... (for the umpteen dozenth time...) Cops call the parents "come get her at the station... Yall have to DO SOMETHING..."
Parents:"It's 3 am... throw her in JAIL... put the fear into her"...
Cops:"Come pick her up NOW, or we'll come arrest YOU for NOT picking her up!"
Parents:"Okay, we'll be right there"...
Cops give them the third degree... "yall have to DO SOMETHING"...
Parents:"Put her in a mental hospital, do an involuntary committment, you cops can do that"...
Cop:"Can't do it... YALL have to DO SOMETHING"...
Parents: "She broke the law, she's a habitual lawbreaker... YOU COPS DO SOMETHING"...
Cop: "Can't do it... here's the ticket, take her to court"...
Get to court, the judge looks at it, "Yall need to DO SOMETHING"...
Parents: "We're broke-- insurance has run out, can't afford to hospitalize her, bout to lose our jobs because we're constantly getting called out by the school and the cops and searching high and low for her when she gets on a tear and takes off and runs away, broke paying fines and restitution and all this stuff because she's gotten in so much trouble-- commit her, throw her in jail, ANYTHING to straighten her out"...
Judge: "Nope, can't do it... kid stuff, she'll turn around... but yall need to DO SOMETHING! BTW, pay the fines and court costs on the way out"...
Kid tries suicide, takes a ton of pills, ends up in a coma... survives and comes out of it after a week or so... state commits her for a couple weeks, then turns her out... CPS visits the parents...
CPS: "yall have to DO SOMETHING"
Parents: "like what?? Our marriage is dissolving because she wants to kill her mother and puts us at odds against each other, we're at our wits end. Her siblings barricade themselves in their rooms at night because she's tried to kill them, hacked at their door with a hatchet. She's been arrested more times than I can count and the school calls twice a day griping about whatever she's done *today*, but they won't do anything. Cops won't do anything, judge won't do anything, state hospitalized her two weeks and dumps her back here-- we can't do anything with her-- our insurance is gone, just about to lose our jobs because we're having to leave all the time because of the school and cops calling us in, what are we supposed to do?? Chain her in her bedroom at night?? Install a steel door with a lock bar from the outside and lock her in her room at night?? What??"
CPS: "NO! Don't do that or we'll arrest you and throw you in prison and take your other kids-- she has RIGHTS! But YALL have to DO SOMETHING!"
Parents: "WHAT?? We've tried everything else..."
CPS: "YOU have to DO SOMETHING..."
See a pattern here??
Girl threatens to kill the mother daily, mother finally gets tired of it, divorces husband and runs off with someone else, takes the other two kids with her, kid and mother disown each other. Family loses their job and home, Dad stuck with the nutjob girl. He goes off the deep end, just lets the girl run wild, she runs off, nobody knows where she is (or particularly cares at this point). Dad pulls himself together, gets another job, and starts chasing women... just praying the kid doesn't show up again for another year-- by then she'll be 18 and the state's problem...
"But SOMEBODY's got to DO SOMETHING"...
Like an old preacher I knew delivered a sermon one Sunday, talking about why this country is falling apart the way it is... "Back in the old days we had DISCIPLINE... "spare the rod and spoil the child"... Growing up, if I did something bad, I got a whippin'... Now if you do that, they'll throw YOU in prison... can't spank your kid... that's illegal... immoral... wrong... BUT, it's okay for the gubmint to STICK A NEEDLE IN THEM when they finally do something bad enough and it's all too late (execution by lethal injection). Which is worse?? Spanking them as a kid to make them learn to "do right", or the gubmint sticking a needle in them when it's all too late..."
Spot on... EXACTLY right...
If this is offensive to you, too bad... doesn't mean it's not TRUE.
Later! OL JR
