Originally Posted By: rocky mtn bill
Craig, our suicide rate and problems with drugs and alcohol are in part the result of the difficulty of earning a living here. Montana is a poor state. There are few job opportunities and low pay. Winters are long and dark. We don't have much in the way of mental health services. Our Indian reservations are where the problems are most acute. Developing economies there is a daunting task. I don't have any answers.

How can you say, for a fact, that it doesn't do any good to put out a wildfire?

Your 'poor' state is liberally sprinkled with public health clinics. Look it up Bill, most only a few years old or heavily renovated. Look it up, one of their cornerstone mandates is mental health. You are willing to admit you don't know where the answers are, when all of this failure is courtesy the aca?

Maybe, for our grandkids sake, there might be a day when you can admit that pissing away billions doesn't do much good, other than a temporary talking point or two. Just because Montana is the playground of the ultra rich, you don't have to lower the bar for the regular folks.