America’s suicide rate is on the rise, and Conservative economic policies are to blame.

[kpete]

The Corporate Right-Wing Agenda Is Driving Thousands of Americans to Attempt Suicide
The very same austerity policies that Republicans in Washington are constantly pushing on us are the same policies that are driving Americans to kill themselves.

Over the past decade, our nation’s suicide rate has been steadily climbing, rising a staggering 23 percent. According to the Centers for Disease Control, there were 700,000 emergency room visits in 2010 alone for self-inflicted injuries.

The fact is, America’s suicide rate is on the rise, and Conservative economic policies are to blame.

....for years we've been seeing a trend that had begun years ago of hiring managers skeeving the unemployed, which is why you keep hearing of people who are still unemployed after four years or more (such as me). HR Directors and other hiring managers are already exacerbating and perpetuating a serious enough problem, which is insufficient or nonexistent job opportunities. When you hear about the Obama administration crowing about better-than-expected numbers from the BLS (such the annual and inevitable spurt in government sector jobs just before the tax deadline), it invariably fails to say that the unemployment figures simply do not count those who have been discouraged after one, two, three, four or more years of unemployment and have stopped looking for work.

MORE HERE:
http://www.welcomebacktopottersville.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-grand-old-party-and-grand-old.html


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In a study released in May, Professors David Stuckler and Sanjay Basu of Oxford University in England found that suicide rates in both the U.S. and U.K. increase when working class wages and wealth decline.

The study calculates, for example, that there were 4,750 “excess” suicides during the recession period in the U.S., compared with suicide rates before the recession.

Stuckler and Basu conclude their report by saying that, “what we’ve learned is that the real danger to public health is not recession per se, but austerity.”

That’s right. The very same austerity policies that Republicans in Washington are constantly pushing on us are the same policies that are driving Americans to kill themselves.

http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/corporate-right-wing-agenda-driving-thousands-americans-attempt-suicide?page=0%2C1&paging=off

Nothing new:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/2263690.stm

[Wilms]

1. ^/:(

[hlthe2b]

2. Only thing less unpredictable than this would be the concurrent rise in racism with RETHUG policies.

I hate what they are doing to this country and how incredibly difficult it appears to be to turn it around.

[kestrel91316]

3. They don't care. The RW wants us all dead, and if the poor or the

struggling or the oppressed use their own bullet rather than the cops having to use their own, well that saves TPTB considerable expense AND paperwork. And it's MUCH cheaper than throwing folks into prison where they will be neglected to death.