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   From: telstra5@tpg.com.au   
      
   crack baby  wrote in   
   news:oiYOg.3064$7I1.1041@newssvr27.news.prodigy.net:   
      
   > Goldcoastbeeper wrote...   
   >> so you're working under the idea that it would be better campain to   
   >> cut the funding rather than campain to reform the services and made   
   >> them more effective?   
   >   
   > The system can't be reformed.  In American political science class I   
   > learned that once an agency is created and given an initial budget,   
   > it must spend the entire budget or have its funding reduced in the   
   > next government budget.  If the agency is some mental health program,   
   > the program must spend ever-increasing amounts of money to avoid   
   > budget cuts, and that is easily achieved by creating new patients to   
   > treat.  If the $20 billion the program was given to treat bipolar   
   > and schizophrenic patients isn't used because there aren't enough   
   > schizophrenics and bipolars to require $20 billion in treatment   
   > services, new patients must be found to eat up the remainder of the   
   > budget so next year the program can get another $20 billion plus an   
   > increase (which will then require finding even more new patients to   
   > eat up to qualify for the next budget increase).  As a result, we   
   > get an endless stream of new mental "disorders," all of which are   
   > approaching epidemic status and require increased gov't funding.  If   
   > you think you can reform this sort of thing I'd like to hear how.   
   >   
      
   exactly.   
      
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