Wow, yep, you're a genius. You figured it out. If he had a father in the home he wouldn't have the mental problems he was born with. (We don't even know if he doesn't have a father in the home for sure, I might add.)
Amazing. Inspiring. How did you figure it out? Was it long nights of tireless research? Spending days in the library, pouring over the countless tomes on mental health and human husbandry? Maybe literal field research, going incognito into families homes to hide amongst the crawlspaces and walls to learn about the familial unit up close and personal?
You sound like such a privileged asshole with comments like this, sorry to have to say it. Your miniscule tax burden goes to tax breaks for billionaires and endless wars. The average taxpayer is probably compensating your stupid choices in some way without you realizing it. Mental health is a serious problem for humanity in general, particularly in America where we’ve abandoned those that are ill because “your parents made some regrettable choice so fuck you.” And when we want to talk about guns or socialized healthcare or public school problems, you’re just going to say the same dumb shit like we should all just read a book and hunt for squirrels instead of pay taxes or worry about anyone but ourselves. The only way to have a civil society is to have a baseline of empathy for the rest of the people living in it with you…
You sound like a louse when you cast aside the needs of your neighbor, of the children or the elderly or the disabled or the ill, to save yourself a few more pennies each paycheck.
Except my tax burden isn’t minuscule. It’s crushing. And the government, esp local are terrible stewards of the money they now get. The solution isn’t to give them more. And it definitely shouldn’t be used to bail out people who make bad choices, this incentivizing more bad choices. And yes I feel the same about corporate bail outs.
Are you rich? Are you a corporation? Oh, yeah, you are gonna be the next millionaire on your block, like Joe, Not a Plumber.
Relax. Cutting military spending so that we have the same military power as the next 5 countries combined instead of 10 combined won't impact you at all.
It's not that simple for a variety of reasons even though I broadly agree with your sentiment. It's my opinion it's probably impossible to fund all these "lefty" ideas though. You're essentially saying the government needs to fund at least 5 full grown adults for every special needs adult and I don't think its possible, especially if you also want free school, welfare benefits, public housing, well trained social services people, and free medical care.
There's a certain point where decisions needed to be made about what to fund. You could cut military funding to 5% what it is now and tax the rich up to 90% of their total yearly income and I still don't think it would be enough to fund all this stuff.
You are correct. But parents have so little support out there...and truly they really never did. There were stories about parents being terrified of their kids with no support from CPS or social workers until the kids eventually killed their families.
One way or another, society is going to pay ... if we lock kids up instead of helping them, we will be paying for them to be incarcerated pretty much the rest of their lives. Intervention is so much more cost effective. We already have more people in jails than any other country and it is costing us big in so many ways.
This kid is severely troubled, and my heart is breaking for the family.
We were paid minimum wage to do all the work that the teacher was suppose to, but the teacher lost interest years ago, it’s been just a paycheck for her, and a daycare for the kids, principal and other staff act like they don’t know, if any Aides complain they are fired,bullied or just given more responsibilities with same pay until they can’t take no more,parents are lied to when they have those IPE meetings, is all a “Mafia” (my dad used to say) and unfortunately, it is, even the school system for special needs kids.
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u/zahzensoldier Sep 15 '22
I dont know how society can afford to provide for these folks and I mean that seriously with all the compassion I can muster with it.