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Suicide rate quadrupled under Obama Presidency
Constitution School: News for We the People ^ | May 3, 2013 | Constitution Shool

Posted on 05/04/2013 6:38:57 AM PDT 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.
1 posted on 05/04/2013 6:38:57 AM PDT by keats5
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To: keats5

I guess they chose Change over Hope.


2 posted on 05/04/2013 6:42:49 AM PDT by CrazyIvan (Obama's birth certificate was found stapled to Soros's receipt.)
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To: keats5

I guess they chose Change over Hope.


3 posted on 05/04/2013 6:44:43 AM PDT by CrazyIvan (Obama's birth certificate was found stapled to Soros's receipt.)
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To: keats5

We can’t get illegal aliens to self deport, but we can get infidels to self destruct. What a country.


4 posted on 05/04/2013 6:45:06 AM PDT by null and void ("Och, aye 'twas a huge beastie the shape of a haggis but the size o' the football pitch at Dunkeld!")
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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.


5 posted on 05/04/2013 6:45:47 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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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.


6 posted on 05/04/2013 6:47:06 AM PDT by momtothree
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To: keats5

If we had a Republican president the media would be all over it, and homelessness as well.


7 posted on 05/04/2013 6:48:49 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Pi$$ed off yet?)
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To: keats5

There’ll be “high fives” in the White House tonight.


8 posted on 05/04/2013 6:51:40 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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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.


9 posted on 05/04/2013 6:53:00 AM PDT by MissMagnolia (You see, truth always resides wherever brave men still have ammunition. I pick truth. (John Ransom))
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To: keats5
I wonder what God thinks?

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10 posted on 05/04/2013 6:56:19 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: CrazyIvan

Obongo promised that he would”Fundamentally Change This Country”.I guess a lot of people aren’t too happy with his”CHANGE”???????????????????????????


11 posted on 05/04/2013 6:58:46 AM PDT by bandleader
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To: keats5

The headline is false. Read the article carefully.

And actually the main reason that there are more suicide than car accident deaths is that automobile travel has gotten so much safer.


12 posted on 05/04/2013 7:05:56 AM PDT by Strategerist
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To: Strategerist

Thus we can reasonably conclude that cars cause suicide to increase. < /progressive think >


13 posted on 05/04/2013 7:09:08 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: MissMagnolia

What is so sad to me, MM... is there is nothing you can say to them that would make them feel any better. I know that is so jaded and dark.. but what could you say? “Dad, don’t worry.. the next president will fix all this” or “Mom, this is just temporary... we will get our freedoms back in so many years”. Yes... they will be spared seeing the total collapse and I will tell you something that is hard for me to say. There are times when I look at my kids and think, “What kind of country are you growing up in and what is coming in your future adult life that I don’t want to know about”. The freedoms and liberties we had as kids... the young today don’t have. I actually pity today’s youth for this very reason.


14 posted on 05/04/2013 7:09:14 AM PDT by momtothree
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To: keats5

Something wrong with the math?

Suicides in the U.S. 2012 – 40,500* – Projected – Obama Administration

Suicides in the U.S. 2011 – 39,500* – Preliminary estimate numbers – Obama Administration

Suicides in the U.S. 2010 – 37,793 – Per Final CDC – Obama Administration

Suicides in the U.S. 2009 – 36,909 – Per Final CDC – Obama Administration

Suicides in the U.S. 2008 – 36,035 – Per Final CDC – Barack Obama is elected President

Suicides in the U.S. 2007 – 34,598 – Per Final CDC – Bush Administration

http://beforeitsnews.com/opinion-conservative/2013/05/suicides-in-u-s-skyrocket-under-obama-2633530.html


15 posted on 05/04/2013 7:11:29 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: momtothree
The freedoms and liberties we had as kids... the young today don’t have. I actually pity today’s youth for this very reason.

"It takes a (liberal) village to raise a child."

It's all about control. The liberals want control of their minds, their bodies, and their eternal souls.
(People have been taught there is no God, and therefore there is no Satan. Because of that, they don't believe an anti-christ could ever rise to world power. If they were to stop, take a deep breath, and honestly look around, they'd see he's already here.)

16 posted on 05/04/2013 7:18:24 AM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: BenLurkin
the rate of increase has more than quadrupled

The posted article (taken directly from language from a Reuters article) actually states the above; there's a HUGE difference between the number of suicides quadrupling and the rate of increase quadrupling.

It was stupid, confusing language for Reuters to use, but it was even more stupid to misunderstand it and put in a false headline.

17 posted on 05/04/2013 7:19:45 AM PDT by Strategerist
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To: momtothree

I have 7 grandchildren and right now life is just grand for all of them. They all have stay at home Moms and Dads with terrific jobs. They live in great towns and go to good school. When Zero if finished in 4 years I really wonder what they’ll be facing and with Hillary lurking on the horizon...God help us.


18 posted on 05/04/2013 7:37:34 AM PDT by surrey
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To: keats5
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.

Which is it?

Older Americans staying in the workforce is supposedly the reason the young cannot get jobs and age discrimination is the reason that the old cannot get jobs. Maybe there just aren't jobs.

19 posted on 05/04/2013 7:52:58 AM PDT by OrangeHoof (Our economy won't heal until one particular black man is unemployed.)
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To: keats5

soetoro very pleased. Anything that kills Americans is desirable to him.


20 posted on 05/04/2013 8:00:34 AM PDT by onedoug
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