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America's Endangered Species: Uneducated, Middle-Aged, White

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Submitted by Eric Zuesse, author of They’re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010, and of  CHRIST’S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity.young ones, and not of old ones, and

A Scientific Study Shows that in U.S., Uneducated Whites Are Now Dying Younger

An article published in the latest issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), documents that, ever since 1998 in the U.S, Whites who are of non-Hispanic origin have been dying younger and younger, and that this is especially true for those Whites who are low-educated (non-BA’ed) and middle-aged (45- to 54-year-old). But it’s true also for the other age-categories of non-Hispanic Whites.

This study, by Anne Case and Angus Deaton, “Rising morbidity and mortality in midlife among white non-Hispanic Americans in the 21st century,” published now in PNAS, finds that, for the low-educated, group, "The change in all-cause mortality for white non-Hispanics 45–54 is largely accounted for by an increasing death rate from external causes, mostly increases in drug and alcohol poisonings and in suicide.” It "was driven primarily by increasing death rates for those with a high school degree or less. … Those with college education less than a BA saw little change in all-cause mortality over this period; those with a BA or more education saw death rates fall.”

Whereas in 1998, only 2 persons per 100,000 in the White non-BA’ed group died from "poisonings" (drug and alcohol), that figure has steadily soared since then and is now above 30, a 15-fold increase.

The suicide-rate rose from 16 to 25; and the rate from chronic liver disease rose from 16 to 21.

Poisonings are thus now the leading cause of deaths within the low-educated White middle-aged group; lung cancer is #2; suicide is #3; chronic liver disease is #4; and diabetes is #5. The only one among the five major causes that has gone down among Whites since 1998 is lung cancer (perhaps a result of reduced smoking). However, the increase from diabetes has been only very slight, from 11 to 12.

Table 2 in the article shows that for all White non-Hispanics aged 45-54, there were enormous increases (doubling in some, going to tenfold in others) in such categories as “days physical health was not good”; “days mental health was not good”; and difficulty with or related to “walking,” climbing stairs,” “standing,” “sitting,” “activities limited by physical or mental health,” “unable to work,” and “heavy drinking.”

The article doesn’t speculate as to the causes of this mortality-rise among Whites.

The question here is: what was done in or around 1998 that might have, to a greater degree than with other groups, adversely affected Whites, and especially low-educated ones, so as to have markedly and very disproportionately increased the stresses that can lead to deaths from poisonings (especially “drug and alcohol poisonings”), and from suicides?

Blacks and Hispanics have always been highly stressed in the U.S.; so, their decline in death-rates was actually continuing during this time; we’re looking here only for a differential indicator, one which can explain the rapid plunge in the welfare of Whites, and especially of middle-aged ones, and especially of low-educated middle-aged ones — not of young or old ones. However, actually, the entire category of American (non-Hispanic) Whites has been dying younger than before, and this fact also needs to be part of the same explanation.

American Whites, in their middle years, used to expect to outperform their parents; they used to expect to become better-educated and higher-income than their parents. Perhaps they no longer do.

One cannot say that the white majority has suffered more than minorities have suffered during the economic stagnation that this nation has experienced since, actually, around 1980. For example, here, from the Economic Policy Institute, is a table showing America’s economic stagnation across groups:

http://www.epi.org/publication/a-decade-of-flat-wages-the-key-barrier-to-shared-prosperity-and-a-rising-middle-class/
 

Furthermore, here is the Conclusion from the 2010 study, "Foreclosures by Race and Ethnicity," that Responsible Lending did, of the extent to which the George W. Bush economic crash and home-foreclosures, affected Whites, Blacks, and Latinos:

“We have estimated that two million families have lost their primary homes and that AfricanAmerican and Latino borrowers have borne and will continue to disproportionately bear the burden of foreclosures.”

Blacks and Hispanics were hit harder by the 2005-2008 foreclosure-crisis than Whites were. And yet, ever since 1998, for some reason, Whites (especially low-educated ones) have lost hope at a far greater percentage than have Hispanics or Blacks.

Do Hispanics and Blacks have stronger psychological, and perhaps also physical, constitutions than Blacks and Hispanics do? They’ve always had lower suicide-rates than Whites. So: maybe they do.

At this stage, one can only speculate as to the reasons behind the Case-Deaton findings.

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Tue, 11/03/2015 - 22:31 | 6747030 atomicwasted
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Grade A horseshit.

Tue, 11/03/2015 - 22:34 | 6747034 Icewater Enema
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Read this earlier this morning. Uneducated, unhealthy people are dying before the rest. Is this surprising?

Tue, 11/03/2015 - 22:49 | 6747072 seek
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It's the change in rates, and not the relative position to the rest of the population, that's surprising. The fact that it's not impacting minorities that have the same education and health issues is also interesting.

I'd also gamble that those "poisonings" are largely mis-identified suicides, or at the very least, people killing themselves slowly.

If I had to guess, it's because the uneducated whites had certain lifestyle expectations in their middle-age that weren't met, and they're killing themselves, fast or slow, to escape. It used to be a blue-collar high school graduate could have a workable life -- maybe not stellar, but work, have a middle-class income, retire -- and that's pretty much gone now due to globalization. The time frame syncs well with that theory, too.

When you're told your whole life that if you work hard and do as your told, things will be easier when you're older, and that happened for your parents and didn't happen for you, and suddenly you're 55 facing the prospect of working near-minimum wage jobs for survival until you die, I think the disillusionment is probably pretty powerful.

Tue, 11/03/2015 - 23:03 | 6747112 NoPension
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Or try this.

You are a contractor. ( pick the trade) .

You need a Licencse, by law. So you get it. Now, you are in the system.
We know YOU! To get the licences, you need a clear credit check. You need insurance. You need to get a EIN, or use yor social. Everything is linked together. Don't pay tax, no licencse renewal. No tag renewal for your truck. Oh, don't forget ObamaCare, chump.
You work all year, barely pay bills, and owe $20 thousand in tax, with $5 thousand in your account. Clients are not paying. And they want cheaper prices.
Meanwhile, your new competition ( guess) has no licencse. Is not worried about being busted either. They can't find him, if he wants. No insurance. No taxes. And works for half of what you have to charge.
So you try it. No choice. No licencse, $2000 fine. No insurance, astronomical fines. Don't file taxes, they own you. Liens on your property, and you grovel to keep pace with a fucking foriegn invader, invited to your world by your politicians.
Now, what the fuck did that guy do wrong? And are you surprised he drinks, drugs or blows his fuckin head of?

Worry when he sobers up, quits being suicidal, and decides to become homicidal.

Tue, 11/03/2015 - 23:14 | 6747154 Pairadimes
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Must be overdosing on white privilege.

Tue, 11/03/2015 - 23:16 | 6747164 Peak Finance
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It was not part of their blood,
It came to them very late,
With long arrears to make good,
When the Saxon began to hate.

They were not easily moved,
They were icy -- willing to wait
Till every count should be proved,
Ere the Saxon began to hate.

Their voices were even and low.
Their eyes were level and straight.
There was neither sign nor show
When the Saxon began to hate.

It was not preached to the crowd.
It was not taught by the state.
No man spoke it aloud
When the Saxon began to hate.

It was not suddently bred.
It will not swiftly abate.
Through the chilled years ahead,
When Time shall count from the date
That the Saxon began to hate.

Tue, 11/03/2015 - 23:59 | 6747273 toady
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Suicidal tendencies or homicidal tendencies...

It's a coin toss! 

Wed, 11/04/2015 - 00:50 | 6747373 Macon Richardson
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Oh, boo-hoo-hoo! Poor dumb redneck white guys are too backward to keep up with the, what did you call them. . it was a scare word, the kind ignorant dolts use one to another. . .what was that word? Ah, I've got it. Those "invaders". Pal, if you don't wear a feather headdress, you were an invader once. A real one. Why not give your thumbs a rest and think for a while instead of scribbling on your keyboard.

Wed, 11/04/2015 - 05:51 | 6747763 wanderer9641
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Learn your history - Even those who wore feather headdresses were invaders.

Wed, 11/04/2015 - 10:32 | 6748409 Nostradumbass
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Better to simply be a journeyman level skilled craftsman, get paid by the hour or job and leave the worries to someone else. Can still make a very good living in some of the trades.

Tue, 11/03/2015 - 23:16 | 6747163 TurnwiseWiddershins
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I honestly think this is part of the stress in my life.  I'm college educated, a veteran (huge mistake that really just set me back years), and earn a rather high working class / low middle class income.

My father calls and asks if I want to go on his ski trip this year with some of his work buddies.  While I went 2 years ago I am simply unable to this go around, or the one last year.  Not all of us get 6 weeks paid vacation. 

I currently get 1, which will be bumped to 2 next year.  I have the option to take a week unpaid.  At my current age my father already had 3 weeks paid vacation which soon became 4.  I don't think I'll ever have 3 paid weeks off, or if I do vacation time will top out there for most of my generation.

House?  Nope.  Wife?  Gone.  Kids?  Probably not.  So I'll simply be able to work until I die at this point.  Hopefully I can turn things around by taking a risk and starting my own gig in a few years, but it'll be depressing until then.  Or maybe I'll just go out with a bang.  I know who the enemy is.

 

 

Wed, 11/04/2015 - 08:08 | 6747909 cyberfossil
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First of all, Turnwise, you are right on point.  The good news is that you have a good job but the bad news you have extremely limited vacation time compared to the previoius generation the healthcare costs have skyrocketed, food and other necessities are skyrocketing, and they say you are the ones who are better off.  I am maybe about your age (or not)-I a 49--went through a divorce after Lehman collapse.  Had about 10 or 15 class actions, seriously, involving laddering and other fraud that resutled and nvolved IPO's that I was lucky to get, bought MCI Worldcom in large amounts before hearing that the Salomon Smith Barney top analyst had a vested interest in securing Preschool (Preschool!!!) spot for his kid because Worldcom exec was also on the Board at the stupid preschool (c'mon--these 3 and 4 year olds don't even give a rat's).  But then it all collapsed and my first small fortune on paper was gone due to fraud, e.g. Michael Lewis and all those other books on the collapse/banker bailout/Hank "the Wank" Paulson bailout and change in accounting rules.  So I took positions against all the banks that should have gone bankrupt in a free market but they changed the accounting rules so they didn't have to book losses for any  of their falling assets and were directly bailed out, unlike me. 

So, lost again on both sides.  So, yes, family gone house gone, etc.  I am out of the country now and much more happy and prosperous, lucky enough to pay off all mortgages but had to start over in an environment that is not based on debt, Wall Street fraud, and financialization/leverage.  It's a more modest living but comfortable, more carefree, more time and less fear about the future.  The Matrix is powerful but not insurmountable. Hang in there, bro.  There can be second life in a new place with real capitalism-not socialism for the rich megacorporations.

Cheers and smoke a fatty--it can be better--make a change and don't give up!  By the way, I am also stacking, just in case.

 

 

Wed, 11/04/2015 - 08:31 | 6747910 cyberfossil
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First of all, Turnwise, you are right on point.  The good news is that you have a good job but the bad news is you have extremely limited vacation time compared to the previoius generation the healthcare costs have skyrocketed, food and other necessities are skyrocketing, and they say you are the ones who are better off because you still have a decent job. 

I am maybe about your age (or not)-I a 49--went through a divorce after Lehman collapse.  Had about 10 or 15 class actions, seriously, involving laddering and other fraud that resulted from and nvolved IPO's that I was "lucky to get" from being a preferred stock client-haha, bought MCI Worldcom in large amounts before hearing that the Salomon Smith Barney top analyst had a vested interest in securing Preschool (Preschool!!!) spot for his kid because Worldcom exec was also on the Board at the stupid preschool (c'mon--these 3 and 4 year olds don't even give a rat's).  But then it all collapsed and my first small fortune on paper was gone due to fraud, e.g. Michael Lewis and all those other books on the collapse/banker bailout/Hank "the Wank" Paulson bailout and the change in accounting rules from mark to market.  So I took positions against all the banks--these banks that should have gone bankrupt in a free market.  But they changed the accounting rules so they didn't have to book losses for any  of their falling assets and were directly bailed out, unlike me and other main street investors/retirement account folks. 

So, I lost again on both sides of the deal, fraud on the front and a disguised bailout on the back for the big banks.  So, yes like you, family gone, house gone, etc.  I am out of the country now and much more happy and prosperous, lucky enough to pay off all mortgages but had to start over in an environment that is not based on debt, Wall Street fraud, and financialization/leverage.  It's a more modest living but comfortable, more carefree, more time and less fear about the future.  The Matrix is powerful but not insurmountable. Hang in there, bro.  There can be second life in a new place with real capitalism-not socialism for the rich megacorporations.

Cheers and smoke a fatty--life can still be better and more balance--make a change and don't give up!  By the way, I am also stacking, just in case.

 

 

Tue, 11/03/2015 - 23:32 | 6747203 acetinker
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Man!  I'm 58 just now, and not formally educated.  I own a small business.  I know how to do stuff, but it seems like the rest of humanity wants to kill me.

A customer has asked me to replicate an adaptor I made back in 2011.  I need a 'donut burnout' in A36 steel, "a" meaning one.  Ya'll prolly don't know what a 'donut burnout' is, but imagine a chunk of steel plate cut to resemble a CD.  It's flat, it's round and it has a hole in the center.  Simple, no?

I've queried six potential suppliers, only two have bothered to respond.  Both have quoted prices more than double what I paid in 2011.  This is happening against a backdrop of falling commodity (steel is a commodity, no?) prices.

It's fucked up.  I really don't have any choice but to pass this increase along to my customer, who will prolly think I'm trying to fuck 'em over.

But I'm not educated enough to survive... yeah, ok... whatever the 'experts' say.

Wed, 11/04/2015 - 08:11 | 6747917 silverer
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They've got plenty in China.  They use them for coasters.  Nobody left here with skills like there used to be.  Welders?  Gone.  Machinists? Gone.  Masons? Gone.  I work in an industry where problems with concrete are multiplying by the day.  The think tankers steer the formulations and future of materials most of which never held a trowel in their hand.  The old school highly skilled installers are retiring in droves, leaving untrained, unskilled workers to install incredibly esoteric products.  Corporations don't want to spend the money to train them. And the gap widens more each day.

Wed, 11/04/2015 - 07:12 | 6747823 MalteseFalcon
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I think any white American high school educated (or less) male currently over the age of 60 grew up in a very different world from his father. Whatever the upside of feminism, affirmative action, Viet Nam, inflation in housing, destruction of unions and other cohesive structures and free trade, here is your downside.

And they were too stupid to know that they were in a fight for their lives.

Wed, 11/04/2015 - 08:59 | 6748037 Jeffersonian Liberal
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The "downside" was their primary goal all along.

Remember, those changes were instituted by the "anti-establishment" puppets, the "useful idiots" that the true powers set in motion to destroy this country from within. Were their injustices that needed to be righted? There sure were. Do you collapse a nation and destroy the lives of everyone in that nation to correct those wrongs? Only if you want to replace it with a global socialist state.

All those they claimed to be fighting for will be much worse off when we have lost our sovereignty and the world exacts its revenge on the America they have loathed for a century and a half.

Payback will be a bitch. And all those who have whined about their special interests over the past 40 years will understand how much better it was then even with its imperfections and that there was a better way to effect those changes (that did not include destroying the backbone of our nation's history and strength).

Tue, 11/03/2015 - 23:23 | 6747187 junction
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What the study did not say was that the United States is under attack by drug cartels who operate with the total cooperation of the DEA, the local police and prosecutors and also many corrupt politicians.  Those white male deaths occurred as meth drug dealers spread with lightning speed through America's heartland.  First these guys lose their manufactiring jobs, shipped overseas with the help of degenerate lying politicians like Nancy Pelosi.  Then these guys start drinking too much, taking too much pain medication and they are on a death spiral.  When they have trouble getting pain medication, there is always a heroin or meth dealer to the rescue. Don't worry, college graduates are next on the "to do" list of the super rich eugenics believers who support Obama's evil policies 100%. 

Tue, 11/03/2015 - 23:28 | 6747202 Bananamerican
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"Those white male deaths occurred as meth drug dealers spread with lightning speed through America's heartland"

their daddies shoulda told 'em to "just say No"

Wed, 11/04/2015 - 00:05 | 6747292 toady
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Okay Nancy.

Tue, 11/03/2015 - 23:44 | 6747233 juangrande
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It all comes down to the ability to adapt expectations to a rapidly changing environment. We white people of America ( late boomers and early gen x'ers) were conditioned to believe that each generation should have it a little better than the one before ( the quasi-mythical American Dream). The harsh reality is different, thanks to non-partisan ( fascist/ corporate) politics beginning with Reagan and accelerated with Clinton. Minorities do not have the American Dream meme instilled in their culture. They have been oppressed for generations in America, so oppression is nothing new. But white men haven't and, consequently, have a rougher time dealing with being included in the "oppressed" group.  

Tue, 11/03/2015 - 22:40 | 6747040 booboo
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I blame Taco Bell

Tue, 11/03/2015 - 22:44 | 6747052 Lost My Shorts
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Interesting to note that having GWB in the White House didn't seem to help, even though a large majority of white middle-aged people voted for him.  And the War on Terror gave them something to live for !!  I don't get it.

Tue, 11/03/2015 - 23:49 | 6747252 garypaul
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It's because of the crap food people eat in the West. There's been millions of warnings over the past few decades but people just don't learn and keep eating that "McCrap". These are the real chickens that come home to roost.

Wed, 11/04/2015 - 01:38 | 6747519 Crush the cube
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Yup, Hispanics won't eat the level of refined crap GMO foods the rest of us do.  While the better off can afford to eat real stuff.  Were still better off than the Blacks getting it from gunshots and crap food.

Wed, 11/04/2015 - 02:05 | 6747572 AGuy
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Seems to me this trend will continue to build momentum. No Jobs, Failed Marriages, Not much to look forward to. The Next recession is likely to hit White Males, 40 to 60 the hardest.

Wed, 11/04/2015 - 09:49 | 6748188 sgorem
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AND;...."Do Hispanics and Blacks have stronger psychological, and perhaps also physical, constitutions than Blacks and Hispanics do?"..Somebody didn't proofread this fucking article. 

Tue, 11/03/2015 - 22:42 | 6747042 JustObserving
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Jobs moved overseas, extremely high healthcare costs, GMO foods (which started in 1996), Fluoridated Water (causing hypothyroidism, weight gain and depression), politicians owned by the 0.1%, and an extremely high incarceration rate are some of the reasons that the lower-educated white males are dying so early.

No one gives a fuck about you if you do not have money in the land of the free.

Wed, 11/04/2015 - 01:05 | 6747409 Excursionist
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Let's not forget about the possibility of 1998 simply being the start of a trend after a lag effect.

NAFTA kicked in on January 1, 1994, and Asia started coming into its own in the 1990's, when the labor arbitrage / offshoring craze picked up steam.

My thesis is uneducated white males in their 40's realize their best years are behind them, there's little or no chance of life getting better because of Asians willing to work for a fraction of the cost and, most importantly, the next 20 - 30 years being hellish because of declining health, cost of managing said declining health, age discrimination in the work place and so forth.

ZH can continue to shit on the ROI of four years in college, but I'm thanking my lucky stars for the doors the diploma hanging on my wall has opened and will hopefully continue to open.

Tue, 11/03/2015 - 22:41 | 6747043 NoPension
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High School Diploma, middle aged white guy here.
Lots of buds of similar circumstance. So here goes.

We are all in a world of shit. Unless, of course, you work for the government. That's like paid vacation to us.

The whole fucking SYSTEM has set itself up to give endless help, waivers, passes, etc., to blacks and Hispanics.
For blacks, just show up at the gov handout office, 99% of the office staff are black, they roll out the red carpet and help you fill out the forms, so you get all you are ENTITLED to. Try that shit if you're white! Ha!

For Hispanics, the politicians claw each other to see who can do the most for them. Never see a house with 15 people in it get a zoning citation. They do not file taxes. The ones paid " legally" probably lose a little. They are a small percentage. Police catch and release, for everything but felonies.

So, try being a hard working white, trying to do the right thing. You are treated like a fucking chump. I suppose, that's fair for all angst whites put upon minorities. So we are getting our comeuppance .

Problem is, we are getting pissed. The tipping point approaches. Fast.

I'll leave it at that.

Wed, 11/04/2015 - 10:34 | 6748426 Beltain
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You had me at everything until "getting our comeuppance"

 

On the brightside the prefered gender and racial groups wouldn't be getting their "entitlements" if they weren't looting the system built by the White Men. It's all falling apart around them now and coming while the tipping point closes in as well.

 

That's a comeuppnce I wanna be around for.

 

Tue, 11/03/2015 - 22:43 | 6747045 One And Only
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Whites are stupid. White people created peanut butter, that's their claim to fame.

Tue, 11/03/2015 - 22:45 | 6747055 nmewn
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Right!

Dammit at least we got dat goin fer us! ;-)

Tue, 11/03/2015 - 23:22 | 6747181 Icewater Enema
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On the bright side, according to the chart, us white guys seem to have put a lid on cigarettes and carbs. Now putting more emphasis on booze, drugs, guns. Angry men who can run faster, feel less pain, and who are armed. 

Tue, 11/03/2015 - 22:57 | 6747092 dexter_morgan
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That's why this site is educational. Most people woulda thought incorrectly that GW Carver invented it!

Tue, 11/03/2015 - 23:13 | 6747150 Pure Evil
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Bless him, the man who invented peanut butter. No-one knows his (or her) name simply because although the making of peanut butter can be traced back to almost 1000 BC there is no mention of the name of who made it first.

Claims to the modern recipe are easier to follow: New Yorker Rose Davis made peanut butter in 1840, Canadian Marcellus Edson gained a patent for it in 1884, George A. Bayle made peanut butter in 1890, John Harvey Kellogg – he of the famous Kelloggs cereals – received a patent for suchlike product in 1897, and Ambrose Straub from St Louis, Missouri patented a peanut butter making machine in the 1903, the same year George Washington Carver introduced his peanut butter recipe. The next year, C H Sumner introduced peanut butter commercially at the Universal Exposition in St Louis. But it would be Joseph L. Rosenfield who would take it big time from 1922 onward. 

Rosenfield licensed his churning process for smooth peanut butter to the Peter Pan brand in 1928 but in 1932 introduced his own Skippy brand.

Today, peanut butter is a billion dollar industry. Thanks to that guy or girl whose name we don’t know.

 

“Man cannot live by bread alone; he must have peanut butter.”  – James A. Garfield.

Wed, 11/04/2015 - 01:20 | 6747474 ZD1
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Well, we can be sure that it wasn't no black man!

Wed, 11/04/2015 - 07:47 | 6747879 geoffb
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I though blacks had the lock on peanut butter with George Washington Carver??

Wed, 11/04/2015 - 10:21 | 6748362 KansasCrude
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Actually I think George Washington Carver created Peanut Butter making it one of the  contributions from our former slaves.    He didn't patent it as he thought all technology he developed for food products were "Gifts from God"   and therefore free.  As a result of this others got the patent and some of the credit.

 

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blpeanutbutter.htm

Thu, 11/05/2015 - 09:05 | 6752993 TheMerryPrankster
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Peanut butter was invented by George Washinton Carver, a black scientist.

Tue, 11/03/2015 - 22:45 | 6747054 i_call_you_my_base
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Trajectory matters.

Tue, 11/03/2015 - 22:46 | 6747058 Laddie
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It isn't "uneducated" Whites that is what another Jew writer, in the Washington Post said of 2nd Amendment supporters and NRA members.

The NRA will fall. It’s inevitable. Just look at the demographics. The Washington Post, October 19, 2015
by Adam Winkler professor at UCLA School of Law

Bowl Cuts & Hate Facts:
The Comedy of Million Dollar Extreme

Many whites — even those with no understanding of the complexities — are keenly aware that their world is changing against their will. Most whites have never visited...any ...New Right websites but they know that they were never asked if they wanted their cities to contain massive Mexican barrios or if they wanted Somali gangs in their small towns. They were never told that Islam is, demonstrably, not a religion of peace. They were never told that nearly 100% of interracial rape is black-on-white. No one asked them if capitalists could import foreign labor to undercut their wages. They see the crime and the filth and the disorder and they do not know how it happened. We have to be there to explain it to them when they seek answers.

The modern democracies of the West, with their philosophies of the stomach and the stock exchange, cannot inspire the people nor protect them. They despise nationhood and despise race. But without our national and racial backbones how shall we stand erect? With quicksands as our foundation how shall we build? How shall we be true to ourselves if we have no selves? Our race is what we are; it is our form. It is our fathers and mothers and brothers and sisters and wives and children. They are the race. How then shall we count it of little worth? Shall we despise our own flesh and blood? Is that what modern democracy is supposed to mean? Is that what Christianity is supposed to mean?
WHITE MAN, THINK AGAIN! by Anthony Jacob, Johannesburg 1965

Kevin MacDonald’s ‘The Culture of Critique’ Reviewed

Tue, 11/03/2015 - 23:16 | 6747162 Pure Evil
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In a world of 7 billion, whites are a minority.

 

(Of course a lot depends on your definition of white)

Wed, 11/04/2015 - 00:38 | 6747340 Hulk
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I go by the color of the buttocks. Farmer tans can be deceiving...

Tue, 11/03/2015 - 22:46 | 6747061 silverer
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Gotta save this dying race.  Somebody has to work in a union and buy all that tech stuff created by highly paid geniuses so they can continue to be highly paid geniuses.

Tue, 11/03/2015 - 22:53 | 6747064 One And Only
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If all white people died right now. What would be left of the world?

(aside from no more racism)

If white people never existed,  if you removed all of their accomplishments. What would the world be like right now?

Tue, 11/03/2015 - 23:33 | 6747213 Bananamerican
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"apres blanc, le deluge"

Wed, 11/04/2015 - 01:18 | 6747356 ZD1
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"If white people never existed,  if you removed all of their accomplishments. What would the world be like right now?"

 

A third world mess like most countries where there are no whites!

 

 

Wed, 11/04/2015 - 08:04 | 6747901 silverer
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Bows and arrows.

Tue, 11/03/2015 - 23:01 | 6747066 Cabreado
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It's admirable only a little but entertaining to see the analysts and chart-pushers attempt to document slices of fallout of the greater chaos. What a waste of time and energy it is to document fallout, rather than address corrupt points of control (which left unchecked guarantee a greater chaos).

Tue, 11/03/2015 - 22:50 | 6747074 Clowns on Acid
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The article does not show which geographic area of the country has the most bias towad the stated result. Most of the Blacks and Hispanics were of inner cities and have been killed off through violence and drug abuse.  The Midwest has been absolutely wiped out of manufacturing jobs which were hitherto occupied by high schol educated Whites. Thoise jobs have been going going gone...sonce the late 80's.

Unfortunately the high school educated, White males do not have access to Affirmative Action policies to compete with equally educated Blacks and Hispanics.

The answer is pretty feckin simple

 

Tue, 11/03/2015 - 22:58 | 6747097 jwoop66
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"Do Hispanics and Blacks have stronger psychological, and perhaps also physical, constitutions than Blacks and Hispanics do?"

 

uhh.....good question..

Tue, 11/03/2015 - 23:34 | 6747217 Bananamerican
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yeah, Constitutional rights to physical SNAP/EBT cards

Tue, 11/03/2015 - 23:07 | 6747117 Niall Of The Ni...
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It's the men who have been treading water. The women have made out like bandits.

Our masters figured out a generation ago that it makes a lot more sense to hire Girl Fridays to do the grunt work that can't be outsourced, rather than men who might only stick around at the firm long enough to learn enough of the ropes to go into business for himself (and one day drive his old employer out of business or invent something that would destroy his boss's industry entirely). Women are perfect worker bees---conscientious, and utterly uncreative and lacking in entrepreneurial spirit. Had it been left up to women we'd still be living in caves, with the only consolation that the caves would be spotless.

So female labor force participation rose steadily upwards till the financial crisis. I suspect the job losses in 2008 and after then got as much attention as they did because the economy had finally run out of jobs for the Girl Fridays who had thrust Obama into office, and spoiled middle-class princesses---our masters' own flesh and blood!---started moving back into their old rooms with useless liiberal arts degrees, and little hope of moving out again even to marry. Even NYT readers weren't able to ignore that.

Working-class white men had already endured a generation of their jobs being exported to China and Mexico, never to return, and, to add insult to injury, working-class white women's understandably deciding they needed a "useless" white man rendered unemployable by what passes for free trade about as badly as they needed the AIDS virus. At least a black baby would get them extra money from Uncle Sugar.

The working-class white men too old to be useful as cannon fodder have been encouraged for thirty years by both Uncle Sugar and Girl Friday to get on with drinking themselves to death.

Mission accomplished---or at least making visible progress.

Enjoy your spotless caves while you can, girls. The day's coming when robots will be able to do all the work you do, except the task of making babies. Even our masters will only need so many harem girls. Do you have a plan B?

Tue, 11/03/2015 - 23:39 | 6747214 spooz
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So, do you just spiel out shit off the top of your head or is it that you repeat fact-free propaganda you hear from somewhere else?

The FACTS are that female labor force participation rates have been falling in the US.  Although less women are getting married, and those that do continue to work, their labor force participation rate has been dropping, and is currently at 54%, compared to 68.7% for men. Their average weekly earnings were $706 for women in 2013 versus $860 for men. Women know they can't count on being taken care of and are doing what they can to support themselves, despite it still being a bigger struggle for them to do so.

 And part of that rising death rate statistic is for women, whose death rates are soaring.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/03/05/the-mysterious-fo...

And as for the degrees they hold, they are more likely to go into psychology/social work, nursing and business administration than they are to get a useless liberal arts degree. How about you brush up on a few FACTS before showing how ignorant you are?

http://www.collegeatlas.org/top-degrees-by-gender.html

 

Wed, 11/04/2015 - 00:22 | 6747320 Silver Bullet
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You should know by now that most ZHer's will down vote you for posting facts without even attempting to refute it.

Wed, 11/04/2015 - 01:01 | 6747406 Niall Of The Ni...
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Yes, labour participation rates have been falling for women---since 2008. This is a crisis, obviously.

For men they've been falling since the 1950s. No crisis at all, obviously.

I'm not just making shit up---this is coming from the BLS. I'll leave you to look the numbers up on your own.

By the way---twits in power suits and armed with MSW's and MBA's never produced an ounce of the steel or a drop of the oil that went into making the iThings they spend hours of their so-called workday fiddling with. 

They're great at coming up with mission statements for the firm, but even a minor technical improvement to their iThings would be quite beyond them. 

And somehow they're the only ones to get a raise these 35 years while their fathers and brothers were systematically shitcanned and every effort made to ensure they never worked again. Even the guys who actually know how the iThings work live in fear of being ordered to train the HB1's brought in to replace them because the firm had a bad quarter.

But go on, tell me more about how deprived American women are and how nobody cares if they live or die. As if they were the ones drinking themselves to death or blowing out their brains after one call too many from a bill collector or the ex-wife's lawyer demanding money for "child support" they simply don't have. Please. I'm all attention. So are all on ZH.

Wed, 11/04/2015 - 01:08 | 6747413 ZD1
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"So, do you just spiel out shit off the top of your head or is it that you repeat fact-free propaganda you hear from somewhere else?"

 

 

So, your worthless cunt self decided to spew femi-nazi bullshit propaganda from your man-hating lesbian masters at the leftist indoctrination camp (aka university)?

Bitch, the FACTS are that men lost far more jobs than women did in the Great Recession—over 6.0 million jobs, or 8.5 percent, compared to women who lost 2.7 million jobs, or 3.5 percent.

http://www.epi.org/blog/job-growth-great-recession-equal-men-women/

Throughout western societies around three times the number of men die by suicide than women, and over 50s are particularly vulnerable.

http://www.alternet.org/personal-health/why-are-rates-suicide-soaring-ac...

And as for the college degrees, 60% of the Master’s Degrees were earned by women and 40% were earned by men.

How about you go braid your armpit hair and then brush up on a few FACTS before showing how ignorant you are?

Wed, 11/04/2015 - 02:50 | 6747624 Larry Dallas
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Well written, Niall!

Wed, 11/04/2015 - 10:59 | 6748516 KansasCrude
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Our education system is at fault for de-emphasizing the trades as a solid route to a middle class life. Many of the trades are suffering from a lack of new blood due to the lack of respect our system places on those skills.   Plus the loss of jobs due to off shoring has dried up some of the opportunities.

I think you have to be honest and say the increased consumptions of hazardous materials (alcohol/drugs) has also played a significant role.  My guess is that should even be showing up in the white collar mortality rates.  Obesity also contributes.  Sedentary lifestyles ditto.

The greed of the priviledged class cannot be overstated IMO for a great number of our problems.  Their (priviledged class) ability to rig the system for their benefit only while the media led us into the  warm state of constant entertainment  that has stripped this male population segment of its  drive and place.   The moral fabric that provided and required accountability and purpose by our institutions was deemed to constraining and unecessary.  All these factors  have conjurred up the RIP signs we are seeing in increasing NUMBers. 

IMO the stumbling will continue until we go financially belly up and the reset casts us to the role of survival.  For those still able to answer the call it will provide a renewal of purpose.  For those unable an acceleration of the above.   That choice is here now in how you are approaching the crash.  Best of circumstances to us all.  Be Prepared.

 

 

 

Tue, 11/03/2015 - 23:16 | 6747126 Bill Shockley
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I am a 70 year old white RN, a drug addict and alcholic 25 years in recovery.

My buddies are dying and I guarantee you that they are poisoning themselvs with drugs too much food, stress and boredom.

 

Boring sports, bad drugs, reality TV.

Their brains are sucked out.

 

Stick a fork in them, they are done.

This has nothing to do with race.

 

Turn off the fucking TV I tell them.

They are not computer literate.

 

They are addicts.

Their wives are codependent and run the show.

Ugg.

The zombie apocalypse.

 

   bill rn

Tue, 11/03/2015 - 23:37 | 6747222 Arthur Schopenhauer
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When you were about 45 years old you decided you would start a new life. You have done everything you could to the best of your ability, and you are still very much alive.

Tue, 11/03/2015 - 23:09 | 6747136 SweetDoug
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'
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'2nd last paragraph…

"Do Hispanics and Blacks have stronger psychological, and perhaps also physical, constitutions than Blacks and Hispanics do?"

Umm… Am I missing something?

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Tue, 11/03/2015 - 23:10 | 6747140 larz
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Hashtag white lives matter

Tue, 11/03/2015 - 23:20 | 6747172 Pure Evil
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Not according to this article.

Tue, 11/03/2015 - 23:15 | 6747160 BlackMagician
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If you can convince the lowest white man that he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll even empty his pockets for you. ~LBJ
Tue, 11/03/2015 - 23:47 | 6747247 ghengis86
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I'll have those Niggers voting democrat for 100 years.
-LBJ

Tue, 11/03/2015 - 23:22 | 6747183 Fukushima Fricassee
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K-12 should be proud

Tue, 11/03/2015 - 23:23 | 6747190 theyjustcantstop
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when I seen in small print the word foreclosure it would be bullshit.

how much down payment, and actual monthly payments came out of the pockets of blacks, and Hispanics before the housing crisis?

just look at hurricane Katrina, the blacks, and Hispanics up and left, they didn't own anything, they just moved to the next hud-house.

no skin in the game. 

alinsky. and cloward-pliven agendas in full force, and Clintons in general.

 

 

Tue, 11/03/2015 - 23:29 | 6747205 Bárðarbunga
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Take away all stupid white men's nail guns. White lives matter.

Tue, 11/03/2015 - 23:34 | 6747218 brown_hornet
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My wife runs the show. I'm rather happy with it that way. 61 and still going strong.

Tue, 11/03/2015 - 23:36 | 6747224 Still Losing Money
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another moronic article by this author or one like him. 

Wed, 11/04/2015 - 00:19 | 6747314 Silver Bullet
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Also known as the death of the now typical ZH poster.

Wed, 11/04/2015 - 01:43 | 6747525 Uranium Mountain
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I can speculate one reason why middle aged whites die early, they have had their wallets torn out through their testicles in something called a no fault divorce.  80% of women file because they have a finacial incentive to do so.  Those middle aged men lose half their life earnings, end up paying spousal support, child support, lose half their retirement, end up losing their assets and their children and many commit suicide.  As a group, how many Blacks and Hispanics end up paying the same after a divorce?  I could almost bet it isn't the same. 

Wed, 11/04/2015 - 02:04 | 6747570 cheech_wizard
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Man up, shoot the bitch, or pay someone to do it for you. View this as a new business opportunity for all those middle aged whites contemplating suicide.

Wed, 11/04/2015 - 05:18 | 6747744 darteaus
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I saw that happen to a guy in Silicon Valley. He made $1 billion, but his ego demanded that he get involved in other ventures. So, his wife divorced him. Her reasoning was I will take my 500 million and step out the Silicon Valley casino. I don't blame her.

Wed, 11/04/2015 - 02:01 | 6747562 PoasterToaster
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Nobody has had a decent education in over 30 years.  This demographic doomsaying is always bullshit designed to make the majority feel like the minority.

Wed, 11/04/2015 - 06:16 | 6747773 Crush the Infame
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"Clevon is lucky to be alive.  He attempted to jump a jet ski from a lake into a swimming pool and impaled his crotch onto an iron gate." 

It was only a matter of time before something else got him. 

Wed, 11/04/2015 - 07:17 | 6747832 pine_marten
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And  "educated" humans appear to be endangering everyone else.

Wed, 11/04/2015 - 07:37 | 6747866 overmedicatedun...
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our western world produces consumers..new cars, check, new home, check, great vaction, check...toys(boats rv's 4wheelers & guns) and smart phones..

look in mirror and see a disapated fat bald man..wait what happened? when above items cost too much and you are left with that face in the mirror and no toys? why life is not worth living.

hint to american men: life is beyond all that stuff, life is a gift even in obuma's & wallstreets disneyland hell, we call america.

wisdom is a rare thing and never given to the educated elite -they only measure things as value and wealth..but the bible and other teachers have told us this for thousands of years and nobody listens.

as buddha said: life is suffering- there is a way out of suffering.

 

Wed, 11/04/2015 - 07:53 | 6747883 GeoffreyT
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college education less than a BA

Only in America.

 

I mean, for fuck's sake... nobody who has not had a head injury even considers a BA an 'education' (and if there's an M in front, it's even more worser). (Parse that before you call 'N2').

 

So long as [zh,x,w]e get the pronouns right, nobody even gives a fuck anymore.

 

Still... it can hardly be a bad thing if dumbfucks are dying (especially if they're offing themselves - if anything it shows a nascent situational awareness that I would havbe thought beyond them).

Wed, 11/04/2015 - 08:24 | 6747952 Crocodile
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I prefer the unscientific studies; common core.  Since the Federal Education Agency became a "Department", in math, science and reading, the US went from 2-3rd in the world to 22nd in the world.  Accident?  I do not think so.

Wed, 11/04/2015 - 08:34 | 6747977 IndianaJohn
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"non hispanic whites" the piece calls us. Is there a hispanic white? If there is, what is it?

Wed, 11/04/2015 - 19:54 | 6751164 Fukushima Fricassee
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Sure, It's a cuban with blond hair and blue eyes and they are conservative anti communist.

Wed, 11/04/2015 - 08:45 | 6748005 BlackVoid
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This is pretty consistent with what happened during the collapse of the USSR. Mortality rates for middle aged men shot through the roof! The reason: they lost their motivation to live.

This is just the beginning though, the collapse will speed up and will take the mortality rates even higher.

Wed, 11/04/2015 - 08:58 | 6748031 Contrariologist
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What's really, really pitiful is that those same uneducated White folks will kiss the asses of the educated, rich White folks who are bankrupting them and putting them in an early grave. Why? Because they (the poor ones) fall for the same, old tired cliche: Jesus wrapped in flag waving a gun.

We're # 1! America the Great! The liberals (or commies, Jews, Russians, Blacks, terrorists...whoever the boogey-man of the day happens to be)  are out to get you! Family values! There's a War on Christmas!

All the while, the rich/educated convert the USA into an oligarchy backed by a police state, a Fascist Police State, no different at all than 1933-39 Germany. "Well, if it keeps us safer...if it saves just one child..." What a load of shit, and unfortunately, all too many of the followers of ZH fall for that shallow nonsense. Pitiful.

Wed, 11/04/2015 - 10:43 | 6748470 BernankeHasHemo...
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Good comment and one you will get down voted for, I am sure. Most zerohedge readers these days are Fox assholes. Of course these are the same fucking losers who are dying so that's nice.

Wed, 11/04/2015 - 09:07 | 6748058 TrumpXVI
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I don't think there is so much mystery here.  The people we're talking about in this article are blue collar, white, union workers.  No single group has been harder hit by the tailspin in employment and its accompanying expectations than blue collar union workers.  

They have been smashed down hard.  And the mortality stats for this group proves it.

Shit, forty years ago the sky was the limit for this group; 60k wasn't out of the question for a goddamn JANITOR working for GM.....and then there was the very best in health care and benefits and a nice house and an SUV and a boat and an RV and an ATV and a hunting cabin in the woods, and on and on and on....total fantasyland......and then it all came to an end.

Wed, 11/04/2015 - 10:26 | 6748385 jwoop66
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And the janitor and everyone around him just knew that he deserved it.

Wed, 11/04/2015 - 11:00 | 6748551 foodstampbarry
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Deserved it, didn't deserve it. Who gives a fuck. Everyone knows things were better then. We have sealed our fate through 40 years of offshoring. The shit storm thats' coming is going to make the french revolution look like a parade.

Wed, 11/04/2015 - 09:17 | 6748090 peterZ
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maybe they're drinking diet soda

Wed, 11/04/2015 - 09:27 | 6748121 TrumpXVI
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There are lots of white hispanics, most Spanards are white and all the hispanics who have lived in the new world without interbreeding with mextizos are still "white".

Wed, 11/04/2015 - 09:38 | 6748155 chistletoe
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um, the next-to-last paragraph:  what, exactly, does this mean?

 

"Do Hispanics and Blacks have stronger psychological, and perhaps also physical, constitutions than Blacks and Hispanics do? They’ve always had lower suicide-rates than Whites. So: maybe they do."

 

Does it, perhaps mean, that the author himself suffers from the same problem about which he is writing?  to wit, a lack of care, patience, and craft?  Has the fine art of proofreading and editing gone completely by the by?

Wed, 11/04/2015 - 10:28 | 6748397 jwoop66
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How can someone be expected to edit and revise such a lengthy piece of scholarship?

 

 

 

Yes, I'll say it.... /sarc

Wed, 11/04/2015 - 09:55 | 6748224 mianne
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People live longer when they are supported by their families or by an ethnic/religious group or community .The only non hispanic whites who live near their families and have frequent contacts with them have not been obliged to move to far away big cities according to unstable job opportunities either because their family already lives in a big city or because the family is a dynasty of big farmers in the country, living on the same farm.

All the others "expatriated" non hispanic whites contact their distant families on the phone or by email as long as everything is all right . But when they are unemployed and broke, even homeless, they do not dare to ask for help on the phone or even for the money of the train or bus fare in order to come back to their parents' or siblings' (if they have any) homes, especially if they have children themselves. Asking for help from far away is too difficult on the phone or by email .

As non hispanic whites, they generally do not belong to any ethnic or religious group . They are left alone with their problems . They have no human support at all. They are too proud to seek charities, and most of them are tempted to find comfort in alcohol or drugs with their specific diseases . They do not live in a healthy way and die younger . Others get severely depressed and commit suicide.

In difficult circumstances , a human life is easier and longer with a family's or an ethnic group's support . Poor lonely non hispanic whites ! 

 

 

Wed, 11/04/2015 - 10:00 | 6748257 Monetas
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Trying to live up to the liberal ideal .... of being a wonderful human being .... and always thinking of others first .... unatural and unhealthy .... IOW (in other words) stoopid ?

Wed, 11/04/2015 - 10:27 | 6748391 BernankeHasHemo...
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This is the best news that I have read in months. I hope all those fucking losers die early especially in the RSA (Retard States of America) where the average IQ is at the retard level. And yeah, you know where those states are: Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana etc. DIE YOU FUCKING RETARD WHITE ASSHOLES.

Wed, 11/04/2015 - 11:00 | 6748550 cluelessminion
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I say this as a middle aged black person.

 

You know the shit is about to get real when white men start throwing in the towel.  Blacks have been unfairly marginalized from the moment we got off the slave ships.  We've never been fully integrated into the main economy.  Yes we've made MAJOR strides over the decades but the welfare state kind of destroyed the family system and created an underclass that has really segmented the community.  You got some like me who were able to take advantage of new and emerging opportunities but you've got this large part that has been locked into a culture of crime, poverty and ignorance, plus there's the 3rd group that is mostly unskilled labor and they got wiped out by this recession.  A lot of them are dealing with the same stresses as whites but in the black community it isn't shameful to take handouts or ask for help.

 

It's scary though because so many people have become dependant on gov't assistance.

Wed, 11/04/2015 - 13:18 | 6749153 kaboomnomic
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So this drunk, drugged, wasted, low live, KKK'ed, low IQ, in bred breeding whitey, going the way of the dodo??

Wow!!

While muslim generations? They're breeds like waaaabbbiiiittt!!
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/04/02/religion-muslims-chr...

Why.. Oh Why Al-Qaeda wants to terrorize western whitey?? The whitey already drops dead like flies..

Wed, 11/04/2015 - 13:28 | 6749198 monad
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They're dying when they get kicked off the nuclear family hamster wheel, after they are used up, to make way for the next batch of rats conditioned by an msm and education system subverted long ago by their mortal enemies.

Before 12/1913: extended families, moral hazard, no FIT.
After WW2: quarantined to isolation units, redistributionism, harvested like cabbages.

Apparently you really need a high degree of indoctrination from the socially engineered quota based pellet dispenser to fail to see where this is headed.

Teacher with bad attitudes who can't teach, but they're PC. Managers with bad attitudes who can't manage, but they're PC. Workers with bad attitudes who don't work, but they're PC. Students with bad attitudes and no learning skills assaulting all the other children and as many of the staff as possible, but they're PC. Government of swine, by swine, for swine.

As a blind man said 3 generations ago...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TQZ-2iMUR0

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