The suicide rate has skyrocketed for one particular age group: the over 50 crowd….the Boomers…
Susie Madrak has a post up on it here.
From the comments, which are really sobering:
September, 2011. I get a phone call from friends of my (then) 83 year old aunt. She had just been saved by two friends. Both are nurses. She had sliced both arms about 35 times. When the dust settled, we found out that she had gotten over 10 grand in debt. Why? She and her husband had lost all of their money paying for hospital bills for his heart condition. He died about 10 years prior. Her only income was Social Security. Couldn’t afford to live on that. Long story short, she now lives with my wife and I.
And we get the Republicans wanting to make that situation worse for millions and a President who thinks that cutting Social Security is fine so that the wealthy in this country still don’t have to pay their fair share.
Isn’t this a great country, or what?
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The comments are heartbreaking. And very telling. There’s a lot of pain out there….and not a lot of hope that things will get better.
Are you listening, members of Congress? President Obama?
….probably can’t hear over the loud voices of lobbyists and campaign donors….
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