Self-Deportation

Once things get crummy enough (or are made miserable enough) they'll self-deport, sez Romney.

Apparently this is also popular w/ people who have no place to deport themselves but heaven, or elsewhere.

Suicide is now the leading cause of injury-related death in America, and the economy may be to blame

(Maybe Mitt will give these losers the old posthumous baptism & they can find work under him when he moves on up to his own planet.)

An extremely disturbing new study published in the American Journal of Public Health finds that suicides have replaced car accidents as the leading cause of injury-related death in the U.S. This is partly because deaths from automobile accidents are down* — that’s the good news.

But the truly catastrophic news is that the suicide rate has increased dramatically: between 2000 and 2009, according to data from the U.S. National Center for Health Statistics, deaths by suicide went up by 15%, and deaths from poisoning increased by a whopping 128%. Moreover, researchers say that many of the poisoning deaths, which are labeled as “accidental,” may actually be intentional. According to the study’s author, Professor Ian Rockett, an epidemiologist at West Virginia University, “Suicides are terribly undercounted; I think the problem is much worse than official data would lead us to believe.” He added “there may be 20 percent or more unrecognized suicides.”

Note well: From 2000 to 2009, under the George W. Bush administration. Maybe he could kill himself in solidarity. Or choke on to death on a fucking pretzel.

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*This is only because people can't afford to drive as much as when they had money. If the economy picks up there'll be more hamburger on the highways.