These persons. Because they want to kill us:
In a book to be published this week, the researchers say more than 10,000 suicides and up to a million cases of depression have been diagnosed during what they call the "Great Recession" and its accompanying austerity across Europe and North America.In Greece, moves like cutting HIV prevention budgets have coincided with rates of the AIDS-causing virus rising by more than 200 percent since 2011---driven in part by increasing drug abuse in the context of a 50 percent youth unemployment rate.
Greece also experienced its first malaria outbreak in decades following budget cuts to mosquito-spraying programs.
And more than five million Americans have lost access to healthcare during the latest recession, they argue, while in Britain, some 10,000 families have been pushed into homelessness by the government's austerity budget.
No, I'm not saying they consciously want us all to get sick and die prematurely--but it's just what their policies will do when put into practice, and we have sufficient data to make an ironclad case. Don't harbor any illusions that this will reframe the debate in Washington, but it would be nice if our political leadership class would acknowledge the fact that tens of millions of their constituents have been needlessly suffering through five years of dire economic times, and that cutting unemployment checks and cancer-center transfer payments is not---repeat, not---going to cause a thousand flowers to bloom. Because if you don't water the flowers, then the flowers, they die.
---Baron V
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