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White working class gets stiffed
Sacramento Bee ^ | April 10, 2017 | Editorial Board

Posted on 04/10/2017 4:34:28 PM PDT by artichokegrower

President Donald Trump’s path to the White House was paved in large measure by white working-class voters. But he isn’t exactly returning the favor to these Americans, who are dying in shockingly high numbers in middle age.

(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: fake; fakenews; trump; whitedeaths; whites
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To: artichokegrower

Even if the deaths WERE during Trump’s watch, I don’t think the middle class whites voted for him because the government wasn’t involved ENOUGH in their lives. I think they wanted the goobermint to butt OUT and let them make their own decisions.


21 posted on 04/10/2017 5:11:28 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: artichokegrower

Eight years of Obama damn near killed a lot of us!


22 posted on 04/10/2017 5:18:45 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: artichokegrower

Please whoever, stop posting the Sac Bee stuff.

These people are beyond help of any kind


23 posted on 04/10/2017 5:22:23 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat ("Liberalism is a mental disorder" On FULL Display NOW! BOYCOTT Mexico nba NFL PepsiCO Kellogg's)
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To: artichokegrower

what a crap article and crap connection to Pres. Trump


24 posted on 04/10/2017 5:23:19 PM PDT by stylin19a (Terrorists - "just because you don't see them doesn't mean they aren't there")
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To: artichokegrower

They really must think people are stupid. Some are, of course. So they expect the President to snap his fingers and reverse a trend that has been going on for decades? I’m sure he would if he could, but the average working class person knows better than that and apparently editorial boards do not.


25 posted on 04/10/2017 5:28:16 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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To: artichokegrower

Hey SacBee, you mean to tell me that they just started dropping dead the second after Trump was inaugurated??

Shocking!


26 posted on 04/10/2017 5:30:18 PM PDT by WeatherGuy
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To: artichokegrower

You have to appreciate the Sacramento Bee, where even the editorial page has Fake News.


27 posted on 04/10/2017 5:31:54 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: artichokegrower
Good grief, what silliness. Preserving ObamaCare is NOT going to help the white working man. Quite the opposite.

To understand what ails white working-class America, the SacBee's editors need to read Charles Murray's 'Coming Apart – The State of White America, 1960-2010.'

But they won't ... because the Snowflake Left has branded Murray 'raaacissssst.'

28 posted on 04/10/2017 5:33:58 PM PDT by shhrubbery! (NIH!)
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To: artichokegrower
Not even worth a read...
29 posted on 04/10/2017 5:38:16 PM PDT by Osage Orange (We can all live together as brothers or perish together as fools)
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To: artichokegrower

The entire “editorial board” of the Bee needs to pee in a cup.


30 posted on 04/10/2017 5:56:39 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: WeatherGuy
Alternative Headline:

DURING FIRST BLACK PRESIDENTS TENURE, WHITE WORKING CLASS DEATH RATES SKYROCKET!

31 posted on 04/10/2017 5:56:58 PM PDT by seowulf
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To: artichokegrower
The Left has been beating this “deaths-of-despair” drum for the last two months.

The actual raw numbers are so small, they are probably within the margin of error.

From the Brookings Institute study: “For white men, the rate rose by 130%...and for women by 380%...”

Translation:

1999 - 0.085% of white males were “deaths-of-despair”

2015 - 0.196% of white males were “deaths-of-despair”

1999 - 0.024% of white females were “deaths-of-despair”

2015 - 0.115% of white females were “deaths-of-despair”

In other words, after 15 years, the rate went up:

A little more than 0.1% for white men.

A little less than 0.1% for white females.

32 posted on 04/10/2017 6:12:08 PM PDT by zeestephen
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To: A_perfect_lady

White liberal progressive mental patient snowflakes siding with the enemy to annihilate thier own race. The last words you hear are, “but but but but, Im on your side” pop! pop! pop! pop! pop!


33 posted on 04/10/2017 6:17:28 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (Trump plays chess the rest are still playing checkers)
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To: artichokegrower
Something is really hinky about these numbers.

I just checked the historical USA death rate for most of the years in the study.

Almost every USA agency publishes different numbers.

Anyway, I used the CDC Vital Statistics web site.

Between 1999 and 2015, the total USA death rate per 100,000 went from 880 down to 820.

I think the Brookings Institute really had to torture the numbers to get a 130% and 380% increase in “deaths-of-despair” for white males and females.

34 posted on 04/10/2017 6:52:55 PM PDT by zeestephen
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To: artichokegrower

Can’t wait for the Sac Bee to opine about the effect Jerry Brown’s ten cent a gallon tax hike has on California’s working class.


35 posted on 04/10/2017 6:57:38 PM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: artichokegrower

Pretty funny coming from the SacBee wile the State of California is doing everything possible to destroy the Entire Middle Class, with an Emphasis on Killing and eradicating Whites.


36 posted on 04/10/2017 7:03:38 PM PDT by eyeamok (destruction of government records.)
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To: HarleyLady27

Geez, I fogot. Rome was built in a day.


37 posted on 04/10/2017 7:27:03 PM PDT by Bookshelf
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To: soycd

Trump can not be logically blamed for the previous decades of the working and tax paying people being forced to pay for the lazy, affirmative filth, just plain bad segments of society.
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I have no doubt that there are plenty people, some of whom infest this forum, who are either congenitally or ideologically incapable of thinking that through.


38 posted on 04/10/2017 7:37:45 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: Grimmy

>who are either congenitally or ideologically incapable of thinking that through.

That alone has allowed the welfare class to milk the cow dryer and dryer. Even in an infinite world of ignorance limited only by time and future inhabitants can such graft and sloth be enabled.


39 posted on 04/10/2017 7:47:01 PM PDT by soycd
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To: artichokegrower

The high death of whitey was in Obama’s administration. It was the aftermath of the real estate bubble bust where a high percentage of middle class people lost their homes and their wealth.


40 posted on 04/10/2017 9:50:46 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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