Constitution School: News for We the People ^ | May 3, 2013 | Constitution Shool
Posted on Saturday, May 04, 2013 6:38:57 AM by keats5
More Americans now die of suicide than from car accidents, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a disturbing statistic that some experts say points to the true depths of the US economic crisis.
In a letter to The Lancet medical journal, scientists from Britain, Hong Kong and United States said an analysis of data from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicated that while suicide rates increased slowly between 1999 and 2007, the rate of increase has more than quadrupled since President Obama was elected to the Presidency in 2008, Reuters reports.
Citing the nation’s severe economic recession as having a direct connection to the rise of suicides, Aaron Reeves of Britain’s University of Cambridge, warned that politicians are partially to blame.
“The increase does coincide with a decrease in financial standing for a lot of families over the same time period.”
In 2010, 93% of all pre-tax income gains went to the top one percent of the American population, which in that year meant any household earning more than $358,000.
Meanwhile, preliminary research suggests that the risk for suicide will unlikely subside for future generations.
“The boomers had great expectations for what their life might look like, but I think perhaps it hasn’t panned out that way,” said Julie Phillips, an associate professor of sociology at Rutgers University. She warns that the number is actually even higher. “We know we’re not counting all suicides… It’s vastly under-reported.”
In 2010, there were 33,687 deaths from motor vehicle crashes and 38,364 suicides.
Although suicide has been traditionally viewed as a problem among the youth and elderly, the recent study, published in Friday’s issue of its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, shows a marked rise in the number of suicides among middle-aged men and women.
This may be connected to the fact that middle-aged individuals who find themselves out of work find it severely more difficult to find employment than their younger counterparts.
The suicide rate for men aged 35–64 years jumped 27.3 per cent, while the rate for women increased 31.5 per cent, from 6.2 to 8.1 per 100,000.
Among the male population, the greatest increases were among those aged 50–59 years, (from 20.6 to 30.7). Among females, suicide rates tended to increase with age. The largest percentage increase in suicide rate was observed among women aged 60–64 years (59.7 percent, from 4.4 to 7.0 per 100,000).
The pandemic of suicides seems to respect no political or cultural divisions in the United States, as two of the hardest hit states were the vastly differing localities of Wyoming and Hawaii. In conservative Wyoming, suicides jumped 78.8%, while liberal Hawaii witnessed a 61.2% increase.
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Amazing statistics. Now more Americans die from suicide than from car accidents.
To: keats5
I guess they chose Change over Hope.
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posted on Saturday, May 04, 2013 6:42:49 AM
by CrazyIvan
(Obama's birth certificate was found stapled to Soros's receipt.)
To: keats5
I guess they chose Change over Hope.
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posted on Saturday, May 04, 2013 6:44:43 AM
by CrazyIvan
(Obama's birth certificate was found stapled to Soros's receipt.)
To: keats5
We can’t get illegal aliens to self deport, but we can get infidels to self destruct. What a country.
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posted on Saturday, May 04, 2013 6:45:06 AM
by null and void
("Och, aye 'twas a huge beastie the shape of a haggis but the size o' the football pitch at Dunkeld!")
To: keats5
Under progressive governance this is an objective goood unless a
gun was involved. Guns are bad. Especially black ones. The guns, I mean.
Being a progressive is hard. No wonder they’re so tongue-tangled.
Being a progressive is hard. No wonder they’re so tongue-tangled.
To: keats5
During Obama’s first four years, I went to my GP. He informed me
that he had more patients now requesting sleep medication, anti-anxiety
meds etc.. than he had ever seen in his entire practice. I asked “why?”
and he said with so many job losses, foreclosures, money worries etc...
that the “d*amn president” was affecting his patients health. With this
suicide statistic... it really saddens me. I guess there are people who
lose so much financially that they feel they have nothing left.
To: keats5
If we had a Republican president the media would be all over it, and homelessness as well.
To: keats5
There’ll be “high fives” in the White House tonight.
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posted on Saturday, May 04, 2013 6:51:40 AM
by DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: momtothree
I have elderly parents (dad is WWII vet) & I can tell you,
they are greatly affected by Obysmal ... his policies, what he is doing
to the country, the corruption, the rooting out of morals, decency and
anything Christian. I hate to say this, but at least dad will likely not
be here to see the total collapse of America as he knew it and fought
for and I am glad he will be spared of that.
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posted on Saturday, May 04, 2013 6:53:00 AM
by MissMagnolia
(You see, truth always resides wherever brave men still have ammunition. I pick truth. (John Ransom))
To: keats5
I wonder what God thinks?Suicide rate quadrupled under Obama PresidencyVanity - why do we in Christian countries have a higher suicide rate?
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