The U.S. death rate has been falling for decades, but researchers have detected one group in which the rates have been steadily ticking up - middle-aged white people. Suicides and deaths from drug overdose and alcohol abuse are being blamed.
The scientists in the article tried to blame the increase on increased use of painkillers, which even if proved, is more like pointing to a symptom, not the disease. In my view, the economy has not been getting worse for those people in this group (middle-aged white people without college degrees.) People under strain have always intuitively turned against more immigration in times of stress. It makes sense to think that if our economy doesn't have work for the native-born, then how can there be work for new arrivals from other lands. And basic economics tells us that an increased supply of labor will lead to lower wages. You can argue whether, in a global economy that increased supply couldn't be tapped anywhere. But to the person struggling, seeing immigrants, and especially illegal ones, doing below minimum-wage work that benefits business, but not them, it has got to be depressing.
For my part, immigration issue has become a test of whether the nation is willing to preserve the rule of law and the our constitutional heritage. The failure to deal with the problem is subverting our institutions. Obama, in typical Caudillo-fashion is looking to bypass the courts and Congress on immigration.
Further, there is good evidence that the intent of the left is to flood our electoral system with immigrants, beyond our ability to assimilate them, who lack our common language and cultural traditions of respect for liberty, freedom and markets to thereby fundamentally transform America.
I am only voting for those who will stand up to this nonsense. Right now that looks to be Messrs. Trump and Cruz.
For my part, immigration issue has become a test of whether the nation is willing to preserve the rule of law and the our constitutional heritage. The failure to deal with the problem is subverting our institutions. Obama, in typical Caudillo-fashion is looking to bypass the courts and Congress on immigration.
Further, there is good evidence that the intent of the left is to flood our electoral system with immigrants, beyond our ability to assimilate them, who lack our common language and cultural traditions of respect for liberty, freedom and markets to thereby fundamentally transform America.
I am only voting for those who will stand up to this nonsense. Right now that looks to be Messrs. Trump and Cruz.
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