Budget cuts to state mental health

We all know the economy has not been going so great lately. And due to this budget cuts in government are likely. According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution,

"The budget for mental health was trimmed in several areas, despite heightened awareness of problems across the state. The spending plan for this fiscal year and next contains a combined $15 million in cuts to mental health services for children and adolescents, consumer advocates say. And there was no new money in the budget for the state’s psychiatric hospitals, even though Georgia reached an agreement last week with the U.S. Department of Justice to improve care in those facilities."

I have written about the difficulty with state hospitals in Georgia before and I'm very concerned about budget cuts to state mental health. I'm concerned because there have already been so many problems with Georgia state mental health and now the governor is proposing cutting the budget further.

I'm not sure what the answer to the problem is. I'm not sure where funding can come from during the tight economic time. But I do know that I hate to see these marginalized people in society going without much needed care.