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I don't hit the abuse button like you do.

You even bragged about hitting abuse every time you saw a post from me.

That's your trick, not mine.

What Barton could not anticipate was the Reagan revolution of the 1980s and the reemergence of Franklin Pierce's concepts of the federal government's more limited role in service delivery. What had been a federal categorical grant program to local communities became block grants to states. Reagan's repeal of the Mental Health Systems Act of 1980 greatly limited a federal leadership role and left it up to states to reprogram institutional budgets as dehospitalization took place and patients were treated in community mental health programs.

http://psychservices.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/51/5/616