Thursday, April 28, 2016

The Left's War on Women

How the state of the economy is literally killing people

Economic distress is so widespread that for the first time ever, life expectancy for white women in the United States actually dropped. Despite progress against cancer and heart disease, lives are being cut short by hopelessness.

It’s a national health emergency. Suicide kills more middle-agers than flu, pneumonia and diabetes combined — often after dashed expectations, abandonment by a spouse and loss of self-worth. Then a bullet to the head or a noose (for men), or a deliberate drug overdose (for women) ends the pain.

These tragedies should awaken this nation to the real issue in the coming presidential election. It’s not inequality, despite Bernie Sanders’ rantings. It’s lack of growth and the Democratic Party’s refusal to make growth a priority.

People don’t kill themselves because their neighbor has more money. They take their life when they can see no way to get a job, support their family and regain self-worth.

The Congressional Budget Office predicts that with current policies in effect, growth will lumber along at less than 3 percent — too little to stop the suicides.

1 comment:

World of Facts said...

Ran into an article yesterday, which directly contradicts this.

The Obama administration, i.e. what you call "The Left", has actually helped a lot. But, Conservatives only care about their opinions, their interpretation, their feelings, their perspective, and not facts, as you have demonstrated before when discussing the decrease in deficit under his presidency. Numbers don't matter; it's only what right-wingers 'think' Obama did, or didn't, that matter. His (hardly) leftist middle-class focused policies worked.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/01/magazine/president-obama-weighs-his-economic-legacy.html