Posted on 11/02/2015 6:35:08 PM PST by ruination
Something startling is happening to middle-aged white Americans. Unlike every other age group, unlike every other racial and ethnic group, unlike their counterparts in other rich countries, death rates in this group have been rising, not falling.
That finding was reported Monday by two Princeton economists, Angus Deaton, who last month won the 2015 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science, and Anne Case. Analyzing health and mortality data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and from other sources, they concluded that rising annual death rates among this group are being driven not by the big killers like heart disease and diabetes but by an epidemic of suicides and afflictions stemming from substance abuse: alcoholic liver disease and overdoses of heroin and prescription opioids.
The analysis by Dr. Deaton and Dr. Case may offer the most rigorous evidence to date of both the causes and implications of a development that has been puzzling demographers in recent years: the declining health and fortunes of poorly educated American whites. In middle age, they are dying at such a high rate that they are increasing the death rate for the entire group of middle-aged white Americans, Dr. Deaton and Dr. Case found.
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My Dad’s generation threats were external and economic. Today the psy-ops the left is playing is way worse.
My dad survived the “psy-ops” of battling Nazi Germany. His brother survived the “psy-ops” of being a Japanese POW.
I have no doubt that they would have survived the brutal onslaught of situation comedies that make fun of white males.
External threats are always better than the enemy within.
No, this is white whites, no Hispanics.
Are you a troll? Nobody has said anything about a higher susceptibility to perceived hardship among whites, yet you keep going back to that line.
There is a longstanding war on the white male, you can admit that or ignore it. It’s real either way.
I thought that you blamed the higher suicide rates on the media and immigration.
“Decades of mass immigration, constant attacks on whites by the media and government, outsourcing of jobs, feminism, and idiotic wars for other people haven’t paid off well for the people who built this country. Those who are giving up and killing themselves at these huge rates were born just when all this started.”
“There is a longstanding war on the white male, you can admit that or ignore it. It’s real either way.”
If there is a war, I will win the war and I will win the war without the help of white males who see themselves victims.
Being aware of the situation is not being a victim. White males need to learn who they can trust and who they can't.
I’m not judging the people killing themselves, I’m judging our enemies who are helping to destroy their will to live.
“The Baby boom generation.”
I think you are correct.
Hope I die before I get old.
Thanks. Yeah, it was brought to my attention 8 years ago or so when I signed up and many times throughout the last 8 1/2 years. It builds character ;)
I still love you lol. But I still want to see pics of the three grandbabies!
They abandoned it.
I get it. It’s hard. Why be a part of something that is against everything you believe in? Why risk your job to speak up?
But how did it become that way? When did it become that way? And now that it is that way, and Conservatives are far and few between, why do we wonder that we have no say? Same with media/entertainment.
Should someone risk their job/livelihood to stand up to this when they would get no back up whatsoever?
Conservatives abandoned education in my State. They abandoned it on the National level too when Bush with Ted Kennedy concocted NCLB and now again with Common Core.
Who is blamed for NCLB? Bush. Who is blamed for Common Core? In my State, Christie.
Conservatives abandoned Education. They abandoned having a voice in the Media, in Entertainment/Hollywood.
I thought the same thing at one time. I’ll just raise my kids and what happens in the home will trump everything else. Yeah, it worked for three of my four kids. It didn’t work for the youngest. She’s a senior now and everything she learns in school, everything she sees on TV, everything that is considered normal, and everything that is normal is considered weird, is what she has been inundated with her entire life no matter how hard we tried to be the controlling voice.
I keep my mouth shut at work because I need my job and I’d have no back up if I did speak up. But yeah, during my classes, I reiterate to the kids, that their parents are who they should look to no matter what. That Common Core sucks but not because the teacher union says so since the teacher union is just pissed that they didn’t design the program so they don’t get the money. I tell my students, as I did during anti-bullying/no drugs/whatever the hell else the theme was the last few weeks, that no one, no one, cares about their education more than their parents and the rest is just filler.
I tried to shush them when the State Police were there addressing our classes re: bullying, guns in the home, violence. Told them not to raise their damn hands because it was nobody’s business if there were guns in the home (which was whole purpose imo). After the State Police left, after they interrupted my freakin’ Algebra classes, the kids talked about their guns, etc. - I teach in the NJ Pine Barrens, just about everyone hunts! and if they don’t, they still carry!. The most liberal/dem families in our district are all about gun rights, 2nd A rights.
So they got the whole diversity thing locked. They don’t have the 2nd A and gun rights thing locked at all and that is the new agenda at least in my rural, hunting, school district.
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