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America's White People Are In Deep Shit

Canada has national health care and an extensive social safety net. There's much larger margin of error for the jobless.
 
He sucks as much as is possible to suck, but it's not like George Bush single-handedly gave the US the most flexible/brutal labor market and least-generous pension system in the advanced world.
 
Not really. Our system makes the bad times worse for most Americans. But white Americans in that age group did better under Clinton and Obama than Bush.

If someone pushes you off a building, do you blame who pushed you or gravity?
 
PhDeac said:
Not really. Our system makes the bad times worse for most Americans. But white Americans in that age group did better under Clinton and Obama than Bush.

If someone pushes you off a building, do you blame who pushed you or gravity?
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That's deep man.
 
Rural white people are committing macro-level suicide by supporting the neoliberal policies that are literally killing them.
 
http://www.theatlantic.com/health/a...ehind-and-dying-early/433863/?utm_source=SFFB

By digging through CDC data, they saw that the reason death rates failed to decline as expected was not entirely due to suicide and substance abuse. Although those factors explained about 40 percent of the gap, the rest was attributable to the leading causes of death—things like heart disease, diabetes, and respiratory disease. Though there are still fewer people dying from those diseases than there were in the 1960s, according to this analysis, the rate of decline has slowed.

That means not only are middle-aged white people drinking more, using more opioids, and killing themselves at higher rates, more of them are getting sick with the diseases that usually kill older people. And when they do get sick, they don’t get better.


This trend was especially concentrated in the South, they found. “In seven southern states—West Virginia, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, and Arkansas—the gap between actual and expected mortality in 2014 exceeded 200 deaths per 100,000 people. In West Virginia, mortality rates were higher than at any time since 1980,” they write. The report was not published in a peer-reviewed journal, and its raw data was not made available.


It’s worth noting that, because of historic racial injustice, health outcomes for African Americans still lag behind those of white Americans in many areas. African Americans die an average of four years younger than white Americans do, for example. However, the mortality rate for African Americans is declining, and that of white Americans is increasing—a historically anomalous trend.


Squires and Blumenthal think the worsening economic standing of uneducated, middle-aged whites might have played a role.
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Take it with the appropriate grain of salt, but it's another study that finds horrifying trends for white people.
 
Life expectancy declined in 2015.

One campaign said America is already great.

What we need is

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Meth and oxy.

If we are going to MAGA, we are going to have to make better choices. Getting a job over getting a fix. Getting a job over having another kid. Getting two jobs over blaming BLM'ers or Obama or libtards or whatever.

If there are no jobs where you are, put the pills down, and move to where there are jobs. Instead of 9-5, work 95 hours/week.

Personal. Responsibility.
 
Nah dude. The solution is to not go to college and wait for Trump to bring jobs back. And blame Obamacare.
 
Also marijuana should not be a schedule 1 drug and is almost certainly the most promising chronic pain management drug in something like a development pipeline
 
Coach O said:
Yep. Lots of folks need to come out of their bubbles and see the choices rural America is making.
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I don't think it is as much the "choices rural Americans are making", as it is doctors are incentivized to prescribe hardcore pain killers to people that don't really need it.

Some guy gets prescribed Oxy after he wrenches his back, 4 years later he is dead of an heroin overdose.
 
WFcatamount22 said:
I don't think it is a much the "choices rural Americans are making", as much as it is doctors are incentive to prescribe hardcore pain killers to people that don't really need it.

Some guy gets prescribed Oxy after he wrenches his back, 4 years later he is dead of an heroin overdose.
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You jada jada'd over some choices. The doctor didn't forcefully inject him with heroin over 4 years.

Drug use is a public health issue. No question. But that's the case for all drugs in all communities.
 
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WFcatamount22 said:
I don't think it is as much the "choices rural Americans are making", as it is doctors are incentivized to prescribe hardcore pain killers to people that don't really need it.

Some guy gets prescribed Oxy after he wrenches his back, 4 years later he is dead of an heroin overdose.
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The same amount of "second chances", opportunities for care and lack of incarceration should happen to other drug users.
 
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