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Bette Midler Verified account ‏@BetteMidler 16 Jan 2013

It feels as if mental health treatment is one of the most intractable problems we have had since Ronald Reagan emptied the institutions.

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    1. Chris ‏@Chris_1791 16 Jan 2013

      .@BetteMidler Actually, Bette it was liberal loons like yourself that force the local, state & federal governments to shutdown institutions

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    2. American Elephant ‏@AmericnElephant 16 Jan 2013

      @Chris_1791 @BetteMidler She should voluntarily re-commit herself.

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    3. Chris ‏@Chris_1791 16 Jan 2013

      @AmericnElephant @BetteMidler Liberals make up their own history. I am sure she doesn't even remember most of the 80's.

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    1. Chris ‏@Chris_1791 16 Jan 2013

      .@BetteMidler You should really delete your tweet. It makes you look really stupid. It was Jimmy Carter. pic.twitter.com/DHg58Ptp

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    3. Eddy Almanza  ‏@TheLeftIsEvil 16 Jan 2013

      Don U say? @Chris_1791 Just tell me one thing, Have U met a Smart #Liberal ? She's Stupid & a Idiot-->> @BetteMidler <<--& a DemocRAT #Evil

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    4. Chris ‏@Chris_1791 16 Jan 2013

      .@TheLeftIsEvil There are liberals who think they are smart because the have a PhD but I'm not impressed.

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    1. Chris ‏@Chris_1791 16 Jan 2013

      .@BetteMidler You were in one of those institution a few times. Did you like staying there?

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    3. Matthew Vadum ‏@vadum 16 Jan 2013

      @Chris_1791 No guns for @BetteMidler!

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    4. Chris ‏@Chris_1791 16 Jan 2013

      .@vadum @BetteMidler That is for sure!

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    5. Matthew Vadum ‏@vadum 16 Jan 2013

      @Chris_1791 @BetteMidler Has public policy expert Barbra Streisand weighed in on this issue yet? I'm on pins and needles.

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    6. Chris ‏@Chris_1791 16 Jan 2013

      .@vadum I am sure Babs will spew her crap too.

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    8. Matthew Vadum ‏@vadum 16 Jan 2013

      @Chris_1791 It ain't over until the fat lady sings.

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    1. GayR-15 ‏@GayPatriot 16 Jan 2013

      .@BetteMidler You do know that it was "progressive" activists who "emptied" our mental institutions through litigation in the 1970s, right?

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    3. craig knack ‏@CraigKnack 16 Jan 2013 Delmar, NY

      @GayPatriot @bettemidler he is correct, we continue to ignore it and it goes away. Those places were a disgrace and NOT the answer!

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    4. GayR-15 ‏@GayPatriot 16 Jan 2013

      @CraigKnack Those places needed to be reformed, not closed.

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    5. craig knack ‏@CraigKnack 16 Jan 2013 Delmar, NY

      @GayPatriot not sure if government could do it, have you need to a nursing home recently? Most are horrendous on a good day

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    6. GayR-15 ‏@GayPatriot 16 Jan 2013

      @CraigKnack Mentally ill are now mostly untreated and in the prison system. So deinstitutionalizing worked out great, huh?

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    7. craig knack ‏@CraigKnack 16 Jan 2013 Delmar, NY

      @GayPatriot don't get me wrong no easy answer on this. Mental illness is a disease and should be treated as such Need to change perception

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