{"id":39293,"date":"2017-04-28T09:32:18","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T15:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=39293"},"modified":"2017-04-28T09:33:29","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T15:33:29","slug":"leaderships-claim-of-living-within-our-means-means-cutting-critical-lifeline-services-by-jay-hughes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/leaderships-claim-of-living-within-our-means-means-cutting-critical-lifeline-services-by-jay-hughes\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Leadership\u2019s Claim of &#8216;Living Within Our Means&#8217; MEANS Cutting Critical Lifeline Services&#8221; by Jay Hughes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">MENTAL HEALTH CUTS:\u00a0 Leadership\u2019s claim of &#8220;Living within our means&#8221; MEANS cutting critical lifeline services to mental health, children, disabled and elderly \u2013 BUT, by all MEANS, don\u2019t delay those $400 Million corporate welfare checks to the right campaign donors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">ENDING CRITICAL CARE:\u00a0 This is what life is like in the real world of MENTAL HEALTH cuts of $19 Million because of the \u201cREVENUE SHORTFALLS\u201d (a spin term for budget crisis):<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Eliminating 650 Employees this next year, like $8.05\/Hr Direct Care Workers.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Immediately stopping admissions to 5 IDD Regional Programs (Hudspeth, Boswell, Ellisville, South MS and North MS Regional Center).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Immediately stopping admission to nursing homes at East MS and MS State Hospital<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Just because people with mental health issues are not treated does not mean they magically disappear.\u00a0 \u00a0They end up hurting themselves or others, or ending up in your local jails for local tax dollars to simply \u201chouse\u201d them instead of treat them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">This is a crying shame.\u00a0 We MUST do better!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Smells like a little punishment for not letting the future governor take control of DMH.\u00a0<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14544 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"The Local Voice Ligature\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MENTAL HEALTH CUTS:\u00a0 Leadership\u2019s claim of &#8220;Living within our means&#8221; MEANS cutting critical lifeline services to mental health,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":254,"featured_media":36171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[9527,7822,4117,1447,5,4],"class_list":["post-39293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-government","tag-9527","tag-district-12-representative","tag-house-of-representatives","tag-jay-hughes","tag-mississippi","tag-oxford"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/jay-hughes.jpg?fit=940%2C490&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/254"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}