And where is the outcry from our politicians? There's none, of course.
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Michael Marmot, director of the Institute of Health Equity in London, told the New York Times that the decline in life expectancy for poor white women over the five-year period from 2003 to 2008 brought to mind the seven years of falling life expectancy for Russian men after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
This comment is all the more striking given that the five years from 2003 to 2008 largely preceded the Wall Street crash of September 2008 and the ensuing plunge of the US and world economy into the deepest slump since the Great Depression of the 1930s. There is no doubt that all the social evils discussed in the Health Affairs report have worsened over the past four years.
The decline for poor white women produced the remarkable result that in 2008 life expectancy for white women without a high school diploma was actually lower than for black women with the same educational level, the first time that such an inversion has been reported in relation to a major indicator of social distress.
This fact alone is a refutation of all the peddlers of identity politics who claim that race, not class, is the fundamental division in American society. What is taking place in America is a class catastrophe, a social counterrevolution directed at the entire working class, of all racial and ethnic backgrounds.
It's always been a class war raged by the few against the many. They want to cut off everything to everybody but themselves, even if it means genocide for millions and millions of people.
How in the hell did we get to the point these treasonous bastards are not rounded up and shot? I am serious. In the old days they would be.
I am not sure they won't be eventually. They are so consumed by greed, selfishness, and outright sociopathy they may not think they will be accountable to anybody.
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