Reaganomics is literally making Americans kill themselves.

According to a new study from the National Center for Health Statistics, the suicide rate in the United States has risen dramatically over the past decade-and-a-half.

Adjusting for age, it jumped 24 percent between 1999 and 2014, with the biggest increases coming after 2006. Thirteen out of every 100,000 people now kill themselves, making suicide one of the top 10 leading causes of death in the entire country.

This is a serious public health crisis that needs to be fixed, and while we can't bring back from the dead the people we've already lost, there is something we can do as a country to make sure even more people don't take their own lives.

And that something is to stop voting Republican because Republican policies are driving people to kill themselves.

Seriously, I'm not kidding. This isn't some crazy conspiracy.

It's a well-documented sociological fact.

Numerous studies have found a strong connection between right-wing economic policies and suicide.

Recent research from sociologists David Stuckler and Sanjay Basu, for example, found that suicide rates in both the U.S. and U.K. increase when working class wages and wealth decline. Things were particularly bad during the recession period here in the U.S. when, according to the study's authors, there were 4,750 "excess" suicides.

Another study, this time out of Australia, discovered a similar pattern in that country. It found that almost 35,000 extra suicides occurred when the "Tories" (Australian slang for right-wingers) controlled the government.

This isn't just something that happens in the English-speaking world, either.

Read more here.

-Thom

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Article: "Congress takes its first step toward killing the military draft" by Leo Shane III.

Article: "U.S. Suicide Rate Surges to a 30-Year High" by Sabrina Tavernise.

Article: "More suicides under Conservative rule", 18 September, 2002.

Article: "Major Study: Suicide Rates in the U.S. Are Soaring" by Marlena Fitzpatrick García.

Article: "Conservatives And Suicide: Study Suggests Link Between Gun Ownership, Republicans And Suicide" by Aaron Sankin.

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Hour Two: Is the Health Insurance Industry Too Big To Fail?
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Site: Hillary Is A Neocon.

Book: The Politics of Jesus: Rediscovering the True Revolutionary Nature of Jesus' Teachings and How They Have Been Corrupted by Obery Hendricks.

Article: "United States presidential primary" by Wikipedia.

Article: "10th Amendment" "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people".

 

Talk Media News Segment:
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Site: "Goats for the old Goat".

Site: Governor Free Don Siegelman 

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Article: "Cruz, Kasich form political alliance to stop Trump" by Justin Duckham.

Article: "Kasich still wants Indiana votes, despite Cruz alliance" by Nick Salazar.

Hour Three: What Happens If Trump Becomes a Democrat Again?
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Article: "The desperate scramble for Bernie's secret weapon" by Gabriel Debenedetti and Darren Samuelsohn.

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