Recent experience and on topic discussions have shown Alaska's fiscal crisis as a real threat to the quality of all our lives. This particular tragedy is one , I wish could be debated  as , times are tough , and dollars to help people looking for it, or deemed in need of help , are not there. 
That is not the case when talking  Mental Health , because there has not been dollars for the Mentally Ill for quite some time. The State when allocating dollars signing up with the  new federal program, allocated  0 dollars for Mental Health,  Let's repeat that amount for it truly does tell the story . What is an opinion, about  an issue , in anyone's budget when 0 . Dollars and .00 Cents are allocated