perhaps a good part of drug overdoses due to lack of medical insurance coverage for pain, undetermined illnesses, no doctors / nurses available, no medical insurance at all...? the clinton-obama attempts to provide some relief for USA poor, lower middle class, workers, failed. and overdose (self treatment) escalated....
What we are seeing is the tragic toll globalization has taken on the working class in this country. There is massive inequality in America, and no one is doing anything about it. Manufacturing jobs have disappeared there is little more than minimum wage jobs in retail and nursing homes for people without a college degree. At the same time, those with degrees leave college with a mountain of debt and few prospects. Because of Covid we spent billions on relief without paying for it, and now inflation is taking a huge bite out of people living on the edge. The Republicans keep cutting taxes and keeping Democrats from raising them. We needed to help people during Covid, but we can't help people or solve problems without paying for it. While the media prattles on about race and gender the poor (the real marginalized) are ignored. It is simple, there a lot of people who have lost hope and that leaves them wanting to obliterate reality with alcohol and drugs.
When one fights a dictator as dedicated, well-entrenched and well-supported as Putin, forethought rather than afterthoughts should have been one's weapon.
This war could have been and should have been avoided. Putin will win because the West will tire of the sacrifice their comfortable populations will need to endure. In the end millions of Ukrainians will have died for nothing. What Biden has done to Ukrainian will go down in history as the worst betrayal of a people by an American president since Bush I abandoned the Kurds to Saddam Hussein.
Avoiding this war was indeed possible, and it should have been the initial impulse on day one. If countries are now having second thoughts about the war, it could avert more damages but it'd also be too late and too little for the dead, wounded, displaced and traumatized.
This war was avoidable in 2014. Ukraine is and has been a US puppet state, corrupt and owned, and now a US proxy war state. A great distraction and money maker. Day one was 2014.
perhaps a good part of drug overdoses due to lack of medical insurance coverage for pain, undetermined illnesses, no doctors / nurses available, no medical insurance at all...? the clinton-obama attempts to provide some relief for USA poor, lower middle class, workers, failed. and overdose (self treatment) escalated....
What we are seeing is the tragic toll globalization has taken on the working class in this country. There is massive inequality in America, and no one is doing anything about it. Manufacturing jobs have disappeared there is little more than minimum wage jobs in retail and nursing homes for people without a college degree. At the same time, those with degrees leave college with a mountain of debt and few prospects. Because of Covid we spent billions on relief without paying for it, and now inflation is taking a huge bite out of people living on the edge. The Republicans keep cutting taxes and keeping Democrats from raising them. We needed to help people during Covid, but we can't help people or solve problems without paying for it. While the media prattles on about race and gender the poor (the real marginalized) are ignored. It is simple, there a lot of people who have lost hope and that leaves them wanting to obliterate reality with alcohol and drugs.
Thank you for your good reporting.
The question now is always, why does the West, individually and collectively, actively commit suicide?
When one fights a dictator as dedicated, well-entrenched and well-supported as Putin, forethought rather than afterthoughts should have been one's weapon.
This war could have been and should have been avoided. Putin will win because the West will tire of the sacrifice their comfortable populations will need to endure. In the end millions of Ukrainians will have died for nothing. What Biden has done to Ukrainian will go down in history as the worst betrayal of a people by an American president since Bush I abandoned the Kurds to Saddam Hussein.
Are you talking about Biden?
Avoiding this war was indeed possible, and it should have been the initial impulse on day one. If countries are now having second thoughts about the war, it could avert more damages but it'd also be too late and too little for the dead, wounded, displaced and traumatized.
This war was avoidable in 2014. Ukraine is and has been a US puppet state, corrupt and owned, and now a US proxy war state. A great distraction and money maker. Day one was 2014.