Dorner's con game worked

[JDPriestly]

96. I have known people who were extremely depressed because they lost their jobs due

to the unfairness of their employer.

Do you think that mental health care could change some of the horrible employers in our country?

I don't know whether you saw the video featuring Wonder Bread/Hostess Corp. employees. They described how their employer had taken money out of their checks to put in a pension fund and then basically used the pension funds for purposes other than the employer had promised. Of course, then in bankruptcy court, the employer basically stole the pension funds.

Do you think that mental health care for the bosses at Wonder Bread/Hostess would help our country?

I am amazed at how nonviolent people remain when they have to deal with the fact that their employer stole from them, from their pension funds, broke promises.

Who needs the mental health care here?

I don't know what really happened in Dorner's situation. I'm not talking about that. I had the impression that the LAPD had straightened itself out a great deal and is doing far better than many of the police forces in the nation.

But more generally, why is it always the little, frustrated guy, the powerless person whom we view as mentally ill?

Do we just label the weak and helpless as mentally ill?

What about a powerful guy like Donald Trump? Does he need mental health care so that he can feel more compassion? How about the Koch Brothers? Do we view them as mentally healthy, sane just because they have money?

Do we equate wealth with mental health and poverty with mental illness? Is mental illness sometimes just a code word for: annoying, bothersome, difficult, sassy, . . . . ?