Federal funding for mental health screening of kids
06/27/05
On Friday Congress defeated an amendment I introduced that would have prevented the federal government from moving forward with an Orwellian program to mandate mental health screening of kids in schools. This program, recommended by a presidential commission, has not yet been established at the federal level. However, your tax dollars are being given to states that apply for grants to establish their own programs -- and a full-fledged program run by the Department of Health and Human Services is on the way. ... The psychiatric establishment and the pharmaceutical industry of course support government mental health screening programs in schools, because they both stand to benefit from millions of new customers...
http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2005/tst062705.htm
from Texas Straight Talk, by Ron Paul
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
On Friday Congress defeated an amendment I introduced that would have prevented the federal government from moving forward with an Orwellian program to mandate mental health screening of kids in schools. This program, recommended by a presidential commission, has not yet been established at the federal level. However, your tax dollars are being given to states that apply for grants to establish their own programs -- and a full-fledged program run by the Department of Health and Human Services is on the way. ... The psychiatric establishment and the pharmaceutical industry of course support government mental health screening programs in schools, because they both stand to benefit from millions of new customers...
http://www.house.gov/paul/tst/tst2005/tst062705.htm
from Texas Straight Talk, by Ron Paul
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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