Posted on 06/12/2018 2:59:09 PM PDT by davikkm
Here’s a shocking and telling statistic on the direction of American society today: suicide rates have risen sharply in every U.S. state (except Nevada, which was already alarmingly high) from 1999 to 2016, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Suicide rates are up more than 30 percent in half of the states over the last couple decades. There were 45,000 suicides in 2016, up from 44,193 in 2015. Suicides on average across the nation have increased by 25%.
Depression, isolation, opioids, technology, and substance abuse are to blame. But more important than the causes is the fact that we need to learn to talk about this, open up with how we’re feeling to those closest to us, and learn how to handle life on life’s terms instead of ending it all. Taking one’s own life is tragic yet cowardly and the dramatic spike should be of utmost concern to every American.
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And yet today, he expressed support for a law to protect "dreamers" (ILLEGAL foreigners who are taking American jobs.)
There is no easy fix to the “dreamer” issue; often they know nothing about the country of their birth, and if we’re going to take in any immigrants I’d rather it would be English-speaking “dreamers” instead of someone else. If you could stop H1-Bs by normalizing the status of “dreamers”, would that be worthwhile?
Right now they are filling my state of NJ with foreigners who speak no English just to head off ghost towns; I’d prefer the taxpaying “dreamer”. Keep them off public assistance for x number of years, and deport them for crimes...
I think this is more of the story than is admitted to:
People feel like they should be getting ahead, but as it gets harder just to stay in place eventually they give up.
The problem with assimilated “dreamers” is that they act as anchors for family and extended family who ARE NOT assimulated into American culture, and have no real motivation to do so. Yes, it is a difficult issue, but the health of the culture is at stake, and we cannot sacrifice that over the prospect of harming others whose only misfortune is the criminality of their parents or relatives breaking immigration law. Ignoring that encourages MORE of the same behavior.
The entire foundational philosophy of psychology is false. Presumably, we are inherently good, and only external influences, experiences and events corrupt this goodness.
That is the antithesis of the Christian Western Civilization view.
I don’t want the “dreamers”, but nobody is going to kick them out; the same way you limit the availability of public assistance, you could prevent any family members from coming as well - we can make it as restrictive as we’d like. Living in the NYC metro area, I know the borders are going to be kept open just to prevent ghost towns from sprouting up all over the highest-taxed areas. Easily more than 50% of my town’s population is imported here - and if they weren’t the homes would be abandoned (and more importantly for the Deep State, the schools - the primary funding vehicle of the Democratic Party - would be closed).
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