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I have no idea about the history of California's mental-illness funding, so I have no idea if your comment is accurate and Reagan is actually the bad guy (altho

I have no idea about the history of California's mental-illness funding, so I have no idea if your comment is accurate and Reagan is actually the bad guy (although I suspect it's more complicated). However, California has run massive surpluses lately: The average ending balance from 2006 through the 2019-20 fiscal year was a surplus of about $2.8 billion; for 2020 through 2022-23 it was more than $37.5 billion. So why doesn't Newsom, or his predecessors, re-establish the funding? Clearly it isn't a priority to them either. https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2023/06/13/californias-budget-whiplash-from-a-record-setting-surplus-to-a-massive-shortfall-in-1-year https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2023/06/13/californias-b...

lotsofpulp 3y ago
I would not want my state to establish funding because then it would become other states’ dumping grounds.
- cheekibreeki2 3y ago
  California is in a weird place due to the weather, which almost guarantees the self dumping of people living outdoors. I'd be curious to see how this factors into these equations. Much of Europe gets pretty cold in winter.
  - throwawaylinux 3y ago
    Weird in what way? There's a dozen with higher average minimum temperatures, several with not signifiantly more rain (or less, Texas).
    - shuckles 3y ago
      The average you’re looking for can hide a lot of distributions. Texas gets both extremely hot and cold in a way California does not.
    - JulianChastain 3y ago
      Iirc California has the most "nice" days on average of any state. "Nice" = between around 60°-80°F and Sunny. If you want to spend the whole year outdoors California is the best state to do it in.
    - lotsofpulp 3y ago
      Wet bulb temperatures and dew point are what determine how comfortable it is outdoors. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100th_meridian_west https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100th_meridian_west > In the United States, this meridian roughly marks the boundary between the semi-arid climate in the west and the humid continental and humid subtropical climates in the east and is used as shorthand to refer to that arid-humid boundary.

lotsofpulp 3y ago

I would not want my state to establish funding because then it would become other states’ dumping grounds.

cheekibreeki2 3y ago
California is in a weird place due to the weather, which almost guarantees the self dumping of people living outdoors. I'd be curious to see how this factors into these equations. Much of Europe gets pretty cold in winter.
- throwawaylinux 3y ago
  Weird in what way? There's a dozen with higher average minimum temperatures, several with not signifiantly more rain (or less, Texas).
  - shuckles 3y ago
    The average you’re looking for can hide a lot of distributions. Texas gets both extremely hot and cold in a way California does not.
  - JulianChastain 3y ago
    Iirc California has the most "nice" days on average of any state. "Nice" = between around 60°-80°F and Sunny. If you want to spend the whole year outdoors California is the best state to do it in.
  - lotsofpulp 3y ago
    Wet bulb temperatures and dew point are what determine how comfortable it is outdoors. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100th_meridian_west https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100th_meridian_west > In the United States, this meridian roughly marks the boundary between the semi-arid climate in the west and the humid continental and humid subtropical climates in the east and is used as shorthand to refer to that arid-humid boundary.