This page has been archived and commenting is disabled.
Middle-Aged Suicide Rate Surges
The suicide rate among middle-aged Americans climbed a startling 28% in the last decade as the rates in younger and older people held steady. This period dominated by two stock market crashes, a real-estate crash, and a hyper-repressive Fed saw a stunning 40% surge in the suicide rate among 35-64 year old white men and women (with non-Caucasian rates steady). 39 out of 50 states registered a statistically significant increase in suicide rates among the middle-aged.
Suicide prevention efforts have tended to concentrate on teenagers and the elderly, but research over the past several years has begun to focus on the middle-aged. As AP reports, the CDC report contained surprising information about how middle-aged people kill themselves: During the period studied, hangings overtook drug overdoses in that age group, becoming the No. 2 manner of suicide. But guns remained far in the lead and were the instrument of death in nearly half of all suicides among the middle-aged.
During the 11-year period studied, suicide went from the eighth leading cause of death among middle-aged Americans to the fourth, behind cancer, heart disease and accidents. Today's payrolls data will do little to lift the spirits of the middle-aged worker; we live in cruel and unusual times.
»
- 20708 reads
- Printer-friendly version
- Send to friend
- advertisements -
Pull a Carradiene.
See what I did there? Go with a smile...
Maybe they figured out the gig is up! Maybe these guys are seeing the coming collapse? just putting it out there..
Oops, wrong again. About the market that is...
H-h-hey, you can still hang around.
Just shows another very sad way about how well QE is working to reduce the unemployment figures and percentage of working compared to population (apart from the fake birth/death adjustements)... get the non working to kill themselves
And let's not forget the terrible impact suicide has on their families and freinds.
Also, I just heard from a relative in Delaware that 20% of the state's population now
depends on food banks and food stamps to survive.
Just great, isn't it!?
Joe Biden's state. 20% on food stamps is low. Other states are far worse.
Sometimes I think the best yoga is to stretch to be ready to kiss it goodbye. You do anyway.
Despite my youthful face and firm, silky-smooth high yellow ass, I am actually a 52-year-old white male. I'm making good coin at the moment but already wrestled with those demons and have a poor-man's plan bottled and bonded - involving a large stack of not-yet-read classics, a healthy dose of cannabis, blatant welfare fraud and a new hobby as a street corner preacher.
I bust ass like clockwork, no debt, savings etc; the way I see it, if I go down it's Mad Max Time nationwide. I intend to live through that.
Good post with the exception of the creepy young Asian girl thing.
FWIW "high yellow", in the classic American vernacular, does not refer to Asians.
It is a tough world out there for those who do not have the skills to survive and many do not. When a person sees his or her realities vaporize slowly and the simple things like going to a grocery store to purchase food or buying gas for a car seem like insurmountable tasks due to lack of coin, hope slowly gives way to despair. I assume many then believe that death is preferable to living here.
When you start sliding down the slippery slope from middle class to poverty the speed becomes rather breath-taking before finally coming to a halt, broken and mangled, at the bottom.
Hemingway quote: "How do you go bankrupt? Two ways, gradually and then suddenly"
yes. that is one of my favorite quotes of his. thanks for reminding.
as the Dow is on fire so too is California
watch live
http://ktla.com/live/#axzzZH
That is what happens when you take CNBC's advice to load up on AAPL.
Because they panic in a evil fraud fuckin usry scheme to the point in history they(Money Changers) had their fuckin tables turned over in their bullshit temple.Reset like Thomas Paine did,3 fuckin times,im working on #2.White dudes middle age,relax,gets some cock pills,start over and have cigar and a drink.You think Corzine is whacking himself or thinking about it.
+100
O-muslim's Amerika is just about everyone hustling everyone. It is all a f**king con and scam anymore. F TV and F Hollywood with their Operation Mockingbird 24x7 lies and propaganda.
Sweet, job openings!
Sadly this is the greater pattern of a depression, not the scaremongering scenario of zombie holocausts with rampaging canabals, but people sitting at home, waiting to die. They have no fight in them, and by the time they call for revolution they have not the strength to stand.
Society is busy beating down this age group.
Divorce encouraged, preferential hiring of Women, these Men have little purpose for society.
It isn't "depression" or "mental illness", it is the societal campaign against Men (especially white males).
Booo hooo!! Why can't we men stay the dominant group forever and just continue to squander the privilege we've been given by oppressing women??
Because we have been beating women into submission through religious, social, and political institutions since.... well pretty much recorded history. Pendulums swing both ways, maybe being the minority will grant some perspective on how to treat everyone with more dignity. You can make it easier on yourself by realizing men have done a great injustice to this world under their management and perhaps seeking aid from the other side will benefit humanity. Or just continue thinking your the minority (fun fact: we are not... yet) and let the dissonance drive you to insanity. Whatever.
Master Race 2.0?
First off, you are a pugnacious asshole. To encourage the debasement of any race or sex is offensive and shows you to be the putrescant puke that you are. Men and women have been in a symbiotic relationship since the dawn of time where men hunt and protect and women gather and child-rear. I think it is wonderful that women are gaining a stronger footing in employment. My wife makes more than me, but it is not rubbed in my face. We live happily and help each other. There have been a few times when I protected her and made her feel safe, whereas she has helped me through my education advances. You know nothing for the benefit of humanity by your utterly childish and unintelligent postulation. Why don't you join the suicide numbers and spare us your attempt at explanation. If for the very least, take it over to Huff Po where you can join the other feminazis. Most men are very caring and respectful of women and other races. Is a woman's place in employment advancing? Yes and it is a good thing. Is it going to happen over night? No. Just like you gaining some fucking sense and not yammering on like a snobby fucking punk that needs his nose broken will not happen over night. Fuck you.
You're awesome! =+1
You're awesome! =+1
I SLAY TROLLS.
I'm an idiot for posting twice.
Your computer is the idiot.
Don't be so tough on Alpha.
I'll bet he got an A on his transgender assignment classes.
when nations hand out the rules, men get the cultural police role.
it's their duty to keep the "gender roles" intact, which benefits the State hugely - and for this work, they get a few cultural "privileges" - including the lame idea that they're "better than" others. . . intersects with race, so dominant race scores more than "lesser" race'd.
just look at how any prison works, the hierarchy formed, how/why.
any dude that plays into this truly believing that they're somehow better than an other simply because of genitalia/hormones, is a full-on tool in the hands of their prisonguards.
carry on.
+100 Awesome
Good job. This is a very depressing story regardless of race or gender. These people are other Americans and our neighbors.
i agree. Nothing angers me more than Schadenfreude. Never take pleasure in others pain. ALWAYS be a hand up for your fellow man/woman.... unless they straight trollin.
Pugnacious, yeah, I'll give you that. I'm quite happy to argue established dominant beliefs and systems. It's too bad you're afraid of what I have to say, recommending I go off to HuffPo. What are you afraid of? Me challenging your social dominance?
Breaking noses is the exact kind of bullshit I'm talking about, the typical social engineered masculine response to threat - Violence. Kind of strong feelings you have there over a simple online conversation. Ohh, better not talk about those though, or we might be taken for gay... or shemales, or whatever other "feminine-esque" attributes may challenge our masculine identity. Hmm, why is it so bad for men to emulate feminine characteristics?
I'm glad your wife has a good job, but if you think gender equality is something for the workplace only... well it only shows your narrow perspective. I realize there has been a symbiotic relationship between the two, and to start perhaps there was equality. Somewhere on the long road of time, men decided women were somehow less than (How long have women been allowed to vote in the US? As long as men...? - No). It's been that way for a long time and it's not going to change overnight, no shit. Nor am I advocating a role reversal, I'm merely remarking the cyclical nature of the human experience - the greatest of teaching instrument ever devised. Just because the probable outcome is unlikeable, doesn't mean it won't happen. Though, we do have a choice in the matter, if we choose to cast off the social constructs informing our decisions.
It is the mixing of thoughts and beliefs that betters humanity. There is a very noticeable bias followers of this blog and I'm going to continue adding my tidbits. Because, well that's what this forum is for. If you don't like, you don't have to read it. Go read other comments that confirm your belief system and helps keep your biases alive and well.
You are arguing that racial and gender discrimination are good things.
Is that what you meant to say?
Things are what they are. I'm only offering a different side of the infinitely angled coin. Good/bad, who can say. If everyone having a turn at being oppressed eliminates oppression, does that make it good? Or would it be good and bad simultaniuosly? Or...?
That's not coin you are holding in your hands, that's your feces. So both sides of your argument are shitty.
you're holding your own here Alpha Monkey, but it's a tough crowd, these ZH'r men. . . still, thought I'd chime in, support a lot of what you're saying (well thought out, all the way down the thread IMHO), and add a couple of truths. . .
re-enForced by religious nonsense, most definitely. Eve-ill temptress uses her sex to keep Man from his God. but, conundrum, how to make more peoples for the church/state if all the men are robed for their gods? so let 'em breed, but remember that their purpose is to serve God, and sex is only for making babies. . . culture works with and against religion - creating the necessary guilt over behaviours, assuaged by offerings to the holy men for penance (long history of buying ones way out of sin)
nationstate cultures go fist in glove with FatherGod religions, it's the historic model now. there's a reason an invading army rapes the enemy women, and that's still the mindset working today, very little evolution if one looks carefully.
and when nations peak, and start that downhill curve, of course it's the men that notice, and bemoan their loss of status - a status that has been artificially created in order to exploit what men are taught they do best, work, make money for taxes, have sex and arm-up for killing other men. . .
if anyone truly believes this is "reality" then yes, I can understand the desire to check out when their perceived status is no more - but all I can say is - adapt to survive, you either surf the change and the dominant storyline, or you hit the water wall. . .
irrespective of your genitalia.
Wrong handle there Alpha Monkey. You are Beta all the way. You need to go volunteer in some place like Gary, Indiana, for a year, and try to sort out the issues of Food Stamp Barry's Free Shit Army. CB
Thanks for posting that IR. I was ready to put my fist through a wall after reading that. Copious note takers indoctrinated by liberal colleges have produced that drivel. Obviously these women live in the cloud of academia and only assciate with others who parrot their views. I've always appreciated men and their enormous help they've made in my life.
Miffed;-)
But can you write your name in the snow?
You're welcome!
You are a filthy Cultural Marxist.
@ Alpha
The good news is....if things do disintegrate....Shemales like yourself will in all probability be a valuable commodity.
LOL!
O.
M.
G.
That's just so wrong....
One variable geometry life support unit...
shaking head, wry grin... bad imagery... really bad imagery...
take care of the overpopulation problem...
WTF?
He's right.
Or are you still festering within the indoctrinations?
Thinking that is similar to thinking that the fed should try to prop up housing prices. He's not right, it's just the eventuality of an unbalanced system. There is no "conspiracy" to ruin the the middle aged white male, his time has just come to not be apart of the cool kids club any longer.
". . .on a long enough time line. . ."
Western European History has never been the Only History, merely the dominate narrative, a myth taught for a reason.
have we not learned this yet? every day we can see how "the story" is manipulated - is it so hard not to understand this is not a NEW thing, that all the stories made up to explain ones existence serve a master-narrative, and certainly does NOT serve individuation?
drop the group-think - EVOLVE, just do it.
Fuck you bitch, i have to deal with entitled little shits like you on the daily. There is no "patriarchy" that is not how society functions, women have always been a protected class, if you are that far gone that you can't even realize this basic feature of or species then i have no words for you. Women are just as powerful, if not moreso, than men, and always have been. Do you think hillary clinton is oppressed? Any woman in that level of society?
I hate this bullshit, it is the reason why I won't lend aid even to groups i generally agree with, because they are sexist, they exalt woman as both a perpetual victim, and at the same time a superwoman. It's idiotic.
I treat everyone fairly, and i honestly believe the groups that lost me will miss what i had to contribute, but it is of their own making, so let them fail.
Where i live, intellectually and politically, i am the minority.
Hope you just forgot the sarc.
Guns are so fuckin' messy.
Have some consideration for those left behind.
The study showed that the use of prescription pain killers to do the deed had risen dramatically.
Yes, but how can we blame this on guns?
Better than a blade,now that's fuckin messy.
Be courteous. Just do it in the bathtub.
Have some respect for the gun at least. It then ends up in government hands instead of your families' hands. They wont take a pill bottle or rope into permanent custody. A gun likely yes, or at best engraved with a big ugly case number, immortalized on the serialised part of it.
Whites figuring out it's not enough to be white, you also gotta be 1%. Guess they think it sucks to be a social minority (a group of people with lack of power and resources in a social/political environment). Numbers should even out after they learn their place. Welcome to the plantation whiggers.
Oh yeah, what a "progressive" society, that addresses race based discrimination with race based discrimination, and prejudice and hatred with prejudice and hatred. Forward?
Who will we hate when everyone is mixed race?
The left-handed again?
Nope, it's class based, hatred of everyone with sub 850 credit scores. Caste system 2.0.
"Who will we hate when everyone is mixed race?
The left-handed again?"
That's not right.
Actually, they have a work ethic so when they cannot find work they feel worthless and off themselves. Numbers should even out after they learn to be a drain on society like the other folks that are lazy pieces of shit.
Either that or they find a leader and decide to do something about it. History does repeat.
Actually, they're just behind on the curve of oppression (or should I say ahead?). Now that the 1% used them to oppress everyone that wasn't a member of the rulling class, it's time to start thinning the herd and squeezing the last bit of ripe fruit.
Previously "majority" group members are new to feeling like a minority... and if this chart is indicative of how much that sucks, think about that when you think and say things like "they (whites) have work ethic" implying that Non-whites don't. Non-whites have just as much work ethic, the difference is nobody has been willing to hire (OPPRESSING) them for much longer, so they've been forced to accept their position (as they had many a Non-Minorities working against them) and had a longer time to become accustomed to the oppression of the "elites".
Please continue thinking "they are lazy" or "they are X" in a dismissive and discriminatory fashion, overlooking the responsibility that Non-Minorities have had in putting them in a position of poverty and minority status... through actions that are shaped by those exact types of sentiments.
The last thing I would want is for you to wake up and realize *Gasp* you may be part of the problem...
So raising a daughter and being a good husband who works 50 hours a week while going to school at the same time, earning a 3.7 GPA and paying for the whole thing by taking no loans is being "a part of the problem"? You state that I have a..."dismissive and discriminatory fashion". I am dismissing nothing. You started this volley with your assumptions on how "elite" folks are punishing minorities first, then whites, when it is minorities who have been offered better chances. Everyone has a chance and blaming others or even taking your own life is a copout. Globally, "Whites" are third in population at 17% compared to Latin and Asian in the top two. Everyone suffers in this environement. It has nothing to do with race, but those taking the brunt are middle aged white males, hence the uptick. Whenever a group experiences an uptick in pain, the suicide rate goes up. This is something you seemingly celebrate which completely undermines any attempt at providing thoughtful conversation. If anyone is "part of the problem" it is you by the mere celebration in other peoples pain. This is staunch sociopathic behavior.
No, I'm pretty sure I clearly stated that thinking things like OPPRESSED peoples are "Lazy" is part of the problem. Further, I've also pointed out that being a "minority" or a "majority" in social terms, has nothing to do with population count, but the access and ability to use resources, political and economical, in the established society. And I've also clearly pointed out that it is a CLASS issue, with racial divisions.
Cry me a river. I've pondered if I am a sociopath, but I clearly feel guilt, regret, and various other emotions with regard to my actions and the effects they have on others as well as being able to empathize with other's pain. Now here's something you may be interest to know about me. While I was chasing the great white american dream, I was suffering great emotional pain, with constant thoughts of suicide. However, instead of offing myself, I decided to investigate and alter my belief system as well as my behavior and lifestyle. I do celebrate pain because I am familiar with the great transformative power that is contained within. I suggest you check your just world bias and good/bad dualism at the door and have seat with reality. I celebrate the fact that much good will come from this because, like I said, pendulums swing both ways.
I'm trying to break any delusions of those holding out that this is a bad dream and there's no way "they" could be a minority (when it's quite clear they are NO MATTER WHAT RACE, as normal citizens do not have say in government and the wealth distribution in america is at all time extremes). I'm glad I could ruffle feathers.
People are not oppressed, they are unemployed.
"but the access and ability to use resources, political and economical, in the established society"
http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=72
"From 1999–2000 to 2009–10, the number of degrees earned among U.S. residents increased for students of all racial/ethnic groups for each level of degree, but at varying rates. For associate's, bachelor's, and master's degrees, the change in percentage distribution of degree recipients was characterized by an increase in the numbers of degrees conferred to Black and Hispanic students. For doctor's degrees, the change in percentage distribution of degree recipients was characterized by an increase in the numbers of degrees conferred to Hispanic and Asian/Pacific Islander students."
When I applied to law school, I noticed that the only demographic without scholarship offers, besides extremely good grades, were white males. I chose a school for its innocence project in working towrds the release of wrongfully incarcerated people. I contribute to "women's studies" byreading to my daughter daily and being a good example. At 16 months she can already say 50-75 words and knows the different animals in her picture books. This is quite advanced and makes me very proud. Contribute and stop bitching. Your failure and anyone elses is theirs or your fault alone.
I will remain with my contention that many people are unemployed because they are oppressed, to some degree (Laws limiting small business, corporate welfare, discriminatory hiring/firing practices, official racism, etc). But thank you for the discussion.
I did feel a little oppressed for not being a LGBT Buddhist Pacific Islander who practices Scientology on the side when applying to school. I'd be going for free if I were this ever growing demographic.
Look dude Alpha monkey is right I dont post much but when I do its usually the same phrase. Now this topic is perfect for my standard post. Americans (white americans) did not realizre they were slaves NOW they are figuring it out and they are not accustommned to the designation. Alpha monkey hit it on the head he is correct and everyone is down arrowing him. This is too funny. Using slaves to control slaves. Brilliant.
White america is figuring it out slowly they are the House N's that were used to control the Field N's.
Sucks to be played so bad. And yet, the game continues when you are presented with truth what do the weak minded do try to protect the BS they were taught by grandma and paw paw.
Understand people you got played. Grow up and change how you treat people. You reap what you sow.
Unless you make billions, YOU'RE A SLAVE TOO. Look at Cyprus. My point is that feeling "oppressed" because of race or ethnicity is a copout. WE ALL GET SCREWED.
^Too much time in the drum circle isn't good for you.
I see grocery stores and it is heart breaking. They are trying to stretch $10 a week for food. Many are pre Social Security. Meanwhile I see O voters and illegals with EBT cards with 1 or 2 shopping carts filled with processed foods and other goodies. It makes me sick. Shades of the USSR after it fell. People over 50 were screwed.
Agree. Had $30 today for food for the week. I can probably apply for foodstamps, but the bullshit involved raises my hackles. I hate that "filling out forms" with ALL your personal info and we will look into your life with a microscope crap for $50 a month in stamps. Don't want to be part of the entitlement system, just want to make enought $ to live on as I was able to do up until 2008.
What the fuckheads don't know is that the markets are and have been on double secret probation for 3 months now. Reversion to mean and beyond (way beyond) is just ahead, let's say near 1,650 SPX.
What the fuckheads don't know is that the markets are and have been on double secret probation for 3 months now. Reversion to mean and beyond (way beyond) is just ahead, let's say near 1,650 SPX.
Do it carefully. The body has a host of sophisticated means by which to stay alive. 'You' may intend to eat a bullet served up by a .357 but your body has other ideas and at the last instant jerks the hand slightly and you blow your jaw off. And survive.
Or you think you O.D. and instead merely kill half your brain.
There was a piece on Golden gate bridge jumpers. One guy who survived said "Right after I jumped I realized everything wrong with my life could be fixed ... Except this."
They're probably reading too much ZH.
Just outlaw suicide, problem solved. I say make it a federal offense with a mandatory life sentence or just ban the act all together.
Death penalty would make more sense!
Hire 10,000 government social workers for proactive intervention. When this fails hire another thousand to study it.
Suicide is already considered illegal. That's why they can place you on a psych hold if you make an attempt and survive. "A danger to oneself, a danger to others or gravely disabled." In California it is a 5150 hold. YMMV
Then the SWAT team will show up to take away your guns.
I explored the idea. Then, I thought long and hard!
My sociopath father needs to die first!
Just throwing this out there before anything happens...I live about 2 miles away.
Police bomb squad to conduct training at Lambert AirportBloomberg will mandate no more suicides and so it will be written, so it shall be done.
Our very souls are being destroyed by the overwhelming presence of evil that has been unleashed on the world.
Baby Boy B...can I get a God Bless?
Young girls who turn into snakes overnight. Conjuring images of Deliverance man rape. Did they stand and applaud?
Murder in Benghazi...What difference does it make!
I don't think that good people with wounded souls can confront this evil. I think that they just have to leave.
<sarc>
lol. 22 from 15 in 100,000 wow.
Honestly people killing themselves is probably good for GDP. Certianly good for Social Security, and great for jobs (what better way to leave the system than in a box no disgruntled worker here, just a happy soul off to heaven.. lala). Heck the government is so hopeful in this regards they have 10's of millions of plastic body crates ready for occupation.
Nothing here move along. Wake me up when the market hits 20000, and suicides/100,000 hit 100.
The American Dream. Only for the 1%, the 99% just have to 'wake up'. </sarc>
There are so many suicides, they're all just statistics.
Now, if only Blythe Masters offs herself, it would be a tragedy.
Suicide up dramatically amonst middle age white men. Huh, whoda thunk? Let's see: The government mandates that a portion of all jobs be given to minorities and women... Whitey is governmentally discriminated against; The government mandates that a major portion of college financial assistance go to minorities and women....Whitey is governmentally discriminated against. Whitey pays the majority of the taxes with minorities and elderly getting the government handouts, while Whitey gets nothing... Sorry buddy, Johnny Jihad gets free tution, you have to pay double. Thanks. Again, governmental discrimination against white men. Whitey sees it and knows he has no hope, so he just offs himself.
eye know!!!
if only we could go back a century or so, when women were discouraged or even forbidden to enter the sacred halls of learning, were not allowed to enter the professions such as White Coat Doctorage, Lawyers, etc. - and knew their place, at home, or at the very edge, spinster schoolteachers of other folk's children. . .
I mean, it was cool when the wommens were working the MAN-u-facturing during the Great Wars, but shit, they needed to get their butts back into the kitchens when Johnny came marching home, make moar baybeez for the State to educate, especially with TeeVee. . .
so now the government wants EVERYone to be in tuition debt, it's so unfair!!!
We are skeptical of the BLS but we take what the CDC spews and run with it.
Word to the wise - accepting what CDC says might wind you up standing in a line of 7000 people waiting to get their government HIV test.
Finally...
An affordable retirement plan.
If the 80's was the period of destroying the African American nuclear family and creating the gang family with the drug trade.
THEN;
This decade is about destroying the middle aged white male -ripping apart the ethics and morals of this group, feasting and attacking their 401K's and making them obsolete with companies no longer offering 3 to 6 month training programs. Requiring 3-10 years experience for any position.
Dammit! Some retro 80's radio station up and queue'd Ozzy and Judas Priest.
Those were the two reasons for all those suicides back in the day. Now we have to up and fix this shit Again.
With Ryan Seacrest as the lone deejay on 1,000 Radio stations.
one gal i knew jumped out of the window after not finding a job for 2 years. she had a university degree btw...
the real economy is fubar. while dow hit all time highs.
fucked up thats all i have to say. *puke*
What we need are Background Checks For Suicide.
That'll stop this.
God (and by God I mean the Federal Reserve/Government) save the deadbeat depositors (and by deadbeat depositors I mean anyone who had 100K or more in or tied to our insolvent banking system circa 2008) and of course those who "had nothing to do with the economic crisis but would have been harmed"...B.Obama
Perhaps one day when we are allowed to be honest, about the theft known as the financial crisis, a holocaust memorial will be erected for those lost souls trampled under foot in the criminal partial reset known as the bailout.
RIP
While the men are offing themselves, the women will be busy earning a living.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcPx2q2ZE30
If you're planning end of life care, please arrange to take some AAAssholes with you. Thanks
My first 12 years of my life were behind the iron curtain; in central Europe (east Prussia area). There is no stuff that anybody can throw at me: I'm a survivor.
People here (in US) talk about going after banksters. It's hard to get to them. The people behind the curtain who are pulling the strings are the problem; try to identify them specifically.
It's hard.
I don't know, I think the Romanians did pretty well. After all they got Nicolae Ceausescu.
I knew someone who taught an old Romanian lady who said she could watch the video below over and over again for the rest of her life.
I'm starting to understand that feeling.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DD-XNTVgDW0
Nicolae and his wife. He had a Praetorian guard but the Romainian Army got through that. The problem is he was not the top person. It is the European Bankster families who have been doing this for 400 years. Getting neighbors to kill neighbors aes they profit and hide out in London or Switzerland or Paris.
sad indeed
www.afsp.org
In the country of the blind the one eyed man is king.
We live in that country, one where the feds rip off the middle class to fund the gambling habits of the wealthy in the stock market, seemingly defying gravity.
But no matter how much liberals and the economic fools continue to deny its existence, reality will exert itself.
How do I know this? Because being middle aged I have seen it happen time and time again. The PM Bubble of 1980/81. The Savings & Loan Crisis at the end of the 80s. The Internet Bubble 10 years later. The subprime bubble of 08. Each time people knew things were going wrong, but instead of fighting it they blinded themselves and went along with the crowd.
They think that nothing changes, that fundamentals don't matter, and whisper lies to themselves and others.
But old age teaches that everything changes.
Reality will exert itself. It may not be today or tomorrow. It may not even be next month. But it will come sometime.
And when it does, I'm going to laugh and spit in their blind fucking faces.
The sheep who watch TV and Hollywood's crap end up supporting their serfdom. The media/tv/hollywood control what the masses think.
NO Bullshit from me. I post charts and tell the truth!
The significance in this suicide report is that several other age groups and many ethnic and women’s groups did not show much change. This highlights the fact that it is the economy and the frustration of being the breadwinner and being wiped out that is killing America’s men at a time in their lives when opportunity and rebound are dimming in a hostile national environment.
And perhaps that is why the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in its analysis fails to report its findings that “Suicide among males is four times higher than among females and represents 79% of all U.S. suicides.”
Never mind that the media had access to this fact but chose to ignore it in keeping with its and the government’s campaign of discrimination and hatred toward one of the world’s most productive and fair-minded groups in world history -- America’s white male population -- the vangard of establilshment of the most moral, most equitable society for all peoples of any civilization in history.
Instead of taking credit for their participation in this demonization of white males in order to bleed them dry, the media, and in this case the AP, explains it all away with this bromide: “One theory suggests the recession caused more emotional trauma in whites, who tend not to have the same kind of church support and extended families that blacks and Hispanics do.”
http://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/pdf/Suicide_DataSheet-a.pdf
fukENa . rEMEMBER USD/JP BACK IN 2010 > J. R.?
My husband occasionally tells me that society should be wary of making white males too angry. Historically, they're the most powerful force the world has ever seen and if they ever get to where they've had enough the fury that will be unleashed will be epic. I agree with him.
He's right.
And I'll be right beside him...
If my wife lets me.
Yes, witness chimps and apes.
No doubt. I won't lie, I've been on the brink for 5 years. 32, nothing to show for it but burned bridges,failures, mountains of unpayable debt and fractured dreams. All that remains is the cold, empty, harsh reality that I wasn't good enough at life to make it. What keeps me getting out of bed in the mornings and continuing this farcical "life" is nothing more than fear. Not of my own death but of the pain it would cause my family at my funeral.
Got a call from one of the multiple debt collectors after me just yesterday. Told him if I had the money to pay then Id use it instead on a large caliber handgun, but unfortunately I can't afford the bullets. He was a little short on words after that.
Anyhow I better get off my neighbors internet because I can't afford my own.i gotta get to work digging ditches for a concrete company....great use of my masters degree in chem engineering from Berkeley.
You are not alone. Whatever you do, do the priorities first and take care of yourself because this economic model is doomed to failure and soon. And we all need to be survivors and see this fight through because what we all have is too precious to have the tyrants take it from us. It is said by many that offshoring jobs and R&D by the internationalists has been more devastating to America than 9/11.
My roommate from college, a chemical engineer with experience and a master's, is in similar straits after a company downsizing eliminated his job.
And read this, including the comments, from the November issue of Chemical and Engineering News: “BARELY HANGING ON: Unemployed chemists at the middle to late stages of their career are beginning to question their faith in chemistry.” It begins:
Five years after the economic collapse began in the U.S., unemployed chemists are still struggling to find jobs. The unemployment situation is especially dire for mid- to late-career chemists who, instead of anticipating a comfortable retirement, now face the possibility of bankruptcy and financial ruin.
As their life savings evaporate, and their hope turns to desperation, these chemists are beginning to question whether they can continue supporting a field that can no longer support them.
In agreeing to share their stories with C&EN, chemists in these dire circumstances requested anonymity to protect their job search prospects; their names have been changed and some details about their situations have been generalized. This article focuses on chemists who were laid off from the pharmaceutical industry, because that’s one of the sectors where the fallout from the Great Recession has been severe.
The impact of this recession has been unlike that of previous recessions. “The fact is that the number of jobs has declined,” says Bassam Z. Shakhashiri, president of the American Chemical Society. And the usual methods for obtaining a new job aren’t working. “If the jobs aren’t there,” Shakhashiri says, “no matter how much you network, you’re not going to find them.”
https://cen.acs.org/articles/90/i45/Barely-Hanging.html
God be with you, my friend.
Project Mayhem needs angry chemists. Lots of angry chemists.
Best wishes, FXWulf. Keep talking to people. Ignore what the idiots here say about SSRIs -- for those who have serious depression they can help.
Perhaps you'd like Maine...there's a job at Bowdoin:
http://www.bowdoin.edu/academic-affairs/curriculum-teaching/recruit/chem...
Brunswick Maine Photo Gallery: http://www.flickr.com/photos/brunswickme/sets/72157627530218927/show/
Remember, the Tunisian, who basically had an Arab hot dog stand and the powers with their regulation forbid his operation, publically immolated himself in the public square. His defiance and sacrifice basically eradicated Tunisia, Egypt and Libya's dictatorial governments. His act changed the world and time will judge if he changed the world for the good or bad. We do know the powers who stopped him from practicing his craft were likely removed.
Your life is precious. You are precious. We are precious. However, I have the picture of all great American men (the few women died as men) who sacrificed their lives in Afghanistan for our country. When I listen to Eric Holder state that some banks are too large to prosecute ( and many more great examples that all ZHers know), I think they were sacrificed by the powers who are killing Lady Justice and if there was one American principle/symbol these men died, equal justice under the law or Lady Justice would be top on the list. The Tunisian made a point with his life without harming anyone else. We should all be so fortunate to die well even if at your own hands.
But I repeat, we are all PRECIOUS! We should come together and do something together before we execute ourselves!
Blessigs to you and don't give up! Without going into detail, I am also in a precarious situation. You are NOT alone, there are many of us. You have youth on your side, and your health. I am not in my 30s or even 40's any longer, making starting over MUCH, MUCH more difficult. My net worth went from having a life raft for a couple of years to zero, zilch, nada. But what I DO have is my good health and I try to keep a sense of humor and not get too discouraged. As a friend of mine says "don't worry, pretty soon everyone's net worth will be about the same as yours." He may be right about that.
Wulf, you must remember your life can totally change for the better in an instant. It might be a chance encounter, or something totally unforeseen. Do not despair. Many are experiencing the same thing as you, so it's nothing YOU did wrong. Don't surrender your chance to complete this ride we call "life". The universe is unfolding exactly as it should; your chance to grab the "brass ring" will arrive. Give it time.
Wulf - hang in there. Keep fighting. If you are in Calif - try to get out.
FXWulf, many posts of "support" here, but I'd just like to add,
there ARE alternatives to the "life" you've been taught to aspire to. get thinking, get creative, go FREE.
CHOOSE YOUR OWN LIFE.
Wulf, the fact that you posted this here means you're trying to find more reasons than you already have to keep struggling. Outside of homeless people living on the street it's extremely difficult to find people in real life who understand the very things discussed here on an hourly basis. I spent 7 years volunteering at a crisis line because i wanted to help people with stories like yours, and i've been there myself for most of my life, which has got me well past 32, which is kind of amazing.
but, but, but the "doctor" on tv told me they had pills to fix depression.
In 40 years suicide rates have not changed. -Despite 11% of the population taking headmeds. For as many as they help, they hurt others, and a few just decide to hurt a bunch of others. Net, net, not change in suicide and a slight increase in violent murder-suicides.
Pretty big price to pay, I'd say....just so big pharma can make a few billion...
The world sucks. Accept that. Find a little slice that doesn't....
reality bites.
Four out of five suicides are men.
Just saying.
We need to work towards equality.
Men succeed more often than women in suicide, but women attempt suicide far more than men. Its easier to save people who over-dose or cut themselves up rather than some of the more violent ways men do it....At least that is what the "authorities" on the subject say.
maybe "we" need to rethink these obviously fatal roles, "men & women" - and do some thinking outside the box'd.
/shrug.
if the shoe fits, cinder-ella. . . then you must be happy with your role(s).
Bearish on rope.
We need a campaign to get all these demoralized Americans to move to CA & get on welfare & vote Republican.
DON'T KILL YOURSELF LOOT CALIFORNIA, America needs your vote.
Makes sense for white suicide to be up, considering they have to work to support everybody else.
Makes sense for native suicide to be high, those people have been fucked for generations though some of them do well with the casinos.
Makes sense for black/hispanic suicide to be low considering our society is structured to celebrate and coddle them.
What doesn't make sense is low Asian suicide rate. I figure it must jump at some point when Asian Americans realize how screwed they are.
Asian American families are very tight-knit; they have this entire cultural and social fabric to fall back on. My street is almost all Asian (I'm not sure which country or countries), but they utilize multi-generational housing, have frequent gatherings with the neighbor families, you know, have a community.
Of course, the 3 white households don't participate in the gatherings, but I've been tempted to invite myself to dinner, more than a few times. :)
Whites in suburban neighborhoods do not typically have this cultural fabric. We have been divided over time, to the point where we don't know our neighbors and don't want to, for fear of being taken advantage of. It is a life of disconnectedness, because we've been trained since birth to let it be so. It's unfortunate.
very wise observations.
"white" culture is inherently competitive, which does not exactly breed mutual trust, nor maintain ties/bonds.
many other cultures value working in groups/families, assisting other similars moving forward together.
Dear abby, dear abby...
My fountain pen leaks
My wife hollers at me and my kids are all freaks
Every side I get up on is the wrong side of bed
If it weren't so expensive I'd wish I were dead
Signed unhappy
J. Prine
Think your life sucks?
Go volunteer at a cancer ward at the Children's Hospital.
Get a wake up call.
Do you get a govt funeral stamp?
Ya, it's social security will have an illegal immigrant build ya a wooden coffin out of plywood and throw you in a mass unmarked grave.
Instead of killing yourself, which is what the Elite Apes want, take out a few of them. Ever wonder why Terrorists always take it out on the working classes...It's because the terror attacks are largely being done by Elite Ape Govt faggots and faggets.
Is this a surprise to anyone??? The western economy rewards criminal behavior and flogs this exact demographic to death with taxes and burdens and debt. One main reason was their finances were toasted.
At some point, as many have pointed out, this country abandoned all ethics and the rule of law.
And at some point the average Joe sees nothing of importance where they are and what they day. Its a habitrail express to hell.
"Stop the Planet, I want to get off" is the new normal