State-run mental hospitals were finally closed down after operating in some areas for over 100 years. The conditions were deplorable and those with the knowledge of same, being administrators up to governors should have been held criminally accountable.

The need for safe and decent care should have never been eliminated. The plug was pulled under Pres. Nixon as he allowed patients a choice of "freedoms" being an ablity to walk the streets and sleep under bridges.

Drugs which now get to be passed out in states with more liberal rules, along with medications are a running gamit of potential aid or abuse. When a human being or an animal gets hungry, they attack if necessary the vulnerable victims.

Some one gets smacked down or shot at when the stomach starts to growl in hunger and the human being has no recourse but to find a solution. Without a job, without money, without a home, without a family, there is a tremendous rise in crime. There is a hopelessness about being able to survive w/o fear as the tide of hate grows.

For those perpetrators that do get "picked-up" and in need of medical care, off to the hospital ER, they go. The nurses and the doctors dedicated to helping all beings that come into their care, do become targets.

Once again, how do we make society in America any better by cutting out all that is necessary to keep us sane and solid? The "man" loses his job. The boss says "out". The home is foreclosed on. The family has left. When, does the cycle of doom end?

The employers liked having that staff cut to save money. The bosses got to keep more income and certainly pay their mortagages and car loans. They are not going to go back and take chances by hiring workers and moving the economy forward.

So, we don't get out of the crunch of vises on our heads. We worry and fret...we threaten....we break-down...and then some go "outside" the box to find any means by which to survive.

Wild-people with flailing arms and legs leave bite marks on caretakers, until they can be strapped down. At this point, maybe a shot could be given to calm down those that are perceived to be on the edge before they even enter the care of a doctor or a nurse?

Finding good care givers now is a concern. A lot of medical staff is already dealing with a stress load due to the economic problems in their own lives. Plus, the medical personnel that are taking drugs as they work around the supplies.

We just seem to be facing more issues each day leading to a more explosive situation just simmering right now as we exist on the edge.

Open up those concrete buildings sitting empty and convert them into facilities for caring for the mentally ill and the seriously deranged. With safe security in place for the staff, those buildings could be first stops for those patients coming in for medical care that are in serious mental crises.

We just seem to be going backwards in this country in every single aspect of good common sense concern for each other.