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Homes are missing
from governor’s plan
Re. “Mental health bill faces push back,” Page A1, May 3:
I am disturbed by Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposal to allow courts to force the mentally ill to submit to a care plan.
While this proposal ties into Newsom’s plan to tackle the homeless situation, there simply isn’t enough thought put into this plan. Mental health issues are only one facet of what brings someone to homelessness, and this bill fails to account for what should be the biggest one: How will these people be housed, and who is responsible for it?
If we spend money, time and effort on imposing treatment upon the mentally ill, but leave out the matter of housing, then doesn’t that just leave those people exactly where they started?
Surely, there must be a more compassionate way to care for our homeless population. I urge legislators to push back against this proposal and carefully consider solutions that prioritize housing.
Alana Sese
Hayward
Column ignores Trump’s
role in Ukraine invasion
Re. “Look to Reagan to counter Putin’s Ukraine aggression,” Page A7, May 20:
This writer employs the most twisted “spin” to try to make his point.
He states the weakness of the Joe Biden regime is the cause of the Ukraine War. He then asserts the war would never have happened during the Ronald Reagan administration, which valued strong international alliances.
What he completely ignores is the real reason for Vladimir Putin’s territorial expansion mania — that Donald Trump aggressively weakened the NATO alliance and played lapdog to Putin, even choosing to believe Russian spy agencies over those of the United States and United Kingdom.
It was Trump who mangled our foreign policy and forged a terrible isolation policy that greenlights expansionism for dictators. It is Biden who is rebuilding those strong Reagan alliances necessary to protect democracies around the world.
Bob Fish
Danville
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