death rates of white middle class American males

[Eric the Green]

(02-22-2017, 08:17 PM)Ragnarök_62 Wrote:

(02-22-2017, 10:19 AM)SomeGuy Wrote: My complaint with the idea of Basic Income as a solution to some of the problems brought up in that Commentary article I linked to is that we have already have a functional equivalent with the explosion in disability claims, TANF, and the like.  The people in question aren't starving, they're playing videogames and drinking themselves to death/doing drugs.

You can see similar (barring minor differences in culture) outcomes with neds/chavs/boggans/what-have-you in the rest of the Anglosphere, hikikomori in Japan, or, more alarmingly, the European jihadists (overwhelming concentrated not in the first generation immigrants, but the second and third ones growing up on public assistance*).

Man does not live on bread alone.

* Which, in wacko liberal logic, means that there is no risk of bringing in an unlimited number of low-skilled refugees to a society with high youth unemployment and increasing automation, because it's mostly their children and grandchildren who will be likely to have problems.  Presumably because, in the longrun, we're all dead, amirite? 

1. Here's what I find strange. What about planting a garden?   I think you can get quite a bang for the buck if seeds were allowed.  I know this firsthand.  Just today, I planted onions in my garden. It's that time in Oklahoma. Later, I'll plant some ghost peppers which are really, really nutritious.  Yeah, they're hot as hell, but that's what makes 'em so good. Capsaisin's an antioxidant and it literally burns fat away. I also wonder to no ends why wild edibles aren't mentioned. Dandelions are not weeds, but very nutritious salad greens. Yeah, I don't apply weed killer to my dandelions, but rather harvest them from the lawn and make salad from them. So, dude, you're correct, man does not live by bread alone. henbit is another green I use for salads.

2. Rags is a cheapskate because he's a Taurus , so if something's already growing in the lawn, hell, why not eat it if it's a salad green?

Dandelions, eh? I've heard they're good for you. I say, ick! Get off my lawn! And growing your own requires prodigious amounts of expensive water.

Quote:3. Drugs/booze. : You know, I really think this is one of Strauss/Howe's prophecies come true.  If anyone read the book, Generations, then those persons have an inside track on this issue. For those of us born in 1961-1964, it's just social pathologies moving up the age scale. 

You've reached the age; you're at the top of it though. A few more years and you are passed the most dangerous zone.

Quote:4. Jihadis/ riff raff. There's been a spate of rioting/sponging off of host countries, etc.  I sincerely hope the US can learn from other nation states' fuckups.

I imagine the supposed fuckups are exaggerated. I prefer genuine news sources. The worst nation that fucked up, of course, is Syria.

Quote:5. I think basic income is a good idea .... if it's restricted to actual citizens of whatever nation state.  

Good idea, yes, but good luck with the restrictions.

Quote:6. Refugees/illegal aliens.  Yeah, mindless idealism does not work.  Globalism/Soros inspired stupidity certainly leaves much to be desired.
http://nypost.com/2017/02/21/actually-sw...-refugees/

You know, I really wish Sweden would get real!

Sweden is real; the USA is fucked up bigly.

Globalism has several meanings; some good, some not so good. Throwing that word around therefore means absolutely nothing. And throwing Soros around means even less. Rich Lowry? No thanks. Well-known reactionary.