Poor White America Going Over Cliff

[bshole]

This is your well of Trump voters.

Two years ago, two married Princeton professors, Anne Case and Angus Deaton, released an alarming study, showing that white middle-aged Americans were suddenly dying much more frequently than in the past. The results were surprisingly given that mortality rates for the U.S. population had in general been falling since 1900.

The authors partly blamed what they called “deaths of despair”—deaths from alcohol and drug poisoning, suicide, and alcoholic liver disease and cirrhosis, which have risen dramatically for whites.

“Ultimately, we see our story as about the collapse of the white, high school educated, working class after its heyday in the early 1970s, and the pathologies that accompany that decline,” they conclude.

http://fortune.com/2017/03/23/death-rates-white-americans-rising/

 

[Sonikku]

Must suck for the working class paying into the system already while most are still in college, only to perish before collecting a dime.

As for the despair and suicide, I can relate only too well. I was in a very dark place before I made several radical decisions in spite of obstacles at every turn.

 

[bshole]

Nevermind...

 

[Sonikku]

Be grateful that you have the good job, good pay, wife and kids. Imagine how dark your place would be with neither.

 

[Jhhnn]

Thanks, Job Creators! Thanks, Libertopian Social Darwinists! Thanks trickle down economists!

I mean, they're just Losers!, right? Fuck 'em!

 

[Jaskalas]

Certain hostile entities have made clear their dogma targets these Americans claiming them both rich and privileged.
Hardships? Impossible we're told. They're living the good life, if only we had it so good...

Medical, taxes, and housing costs scale incredibly well in this country, to suck the life out of any income not 6 figures or greater.
There's the story of welfare benefits back in the 2012 campaign, how the poorest "make more" than people with 50k incomes.
So before you think the gap is wide between poverty and middle class, you may want to rethink that with facts.

America has a great hodgepodge of benefits for poverty, and though not everyone can enjoy them at all times... it shrinks the advantage of being middle class. You think they have 20-40k more than you on average... but it's either made up for in tax increases / benefit reductions... or simply vanishes entirely in housing and medical. They are "better off" and stuck in a muddy rut. And the value of labor has only continued to decline.... and down they go.

Economic hell will soon be upon us unless we wisen up, resolve to cheapen the costs of living, and provide _everyone_ a basic income.

 

[Jaskalas]

Thanks, Job Creators! Thanks, Libertopian Social Darwinists! Thanks trickle down economists!

I mean, they're just Losers!, right? Fuck 'em!

The victims of trickle down are our growing voting block for bold, progressive, action. To Sanders and beyond...