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The Quality Of
Life In The United States Is Going Down The Toilet
Is the quality of life in America getting better, or is it getting
worse? Americans certainly have a lot more “money” than they did when I
was a kid, but that doesn’t mean much because the U.S. dollar has only a
fraction of the value that it did back then. And without a doubt our
electronic devices have become much more advanced, but that doesn’t mean that
we are happier.
In fact, everywhere I look
people seem to be deeply unhappy. It is rare to see someone actually
smiling in public, but of course there is a good reason for that. If you
smile too much, someone might accuse you of being creepy. As Americans,
we are being trained to not express emotions and to keep to ourselves.
Being friendly is considered to be “suspicious”, if you tell a joke there is a
very good chance that you will deeply offend someone, and if you express strong
opinions you might just get “canceled”.
Even though we are far more “wealthy” than they were, I imagine
that our culture is not too different from what East Germans experienced before
the Berlin Wall came down.
There is so much hate and division in our society, and everyone
seems ready to rat out those around them at the drop of a hat. So most
people are careful to keep to themselves, but at the same time most people are
desperately lonely.
These days, most Americans walk around like a bunch of
zombies. In fact, as a result of mental health problems and stress, a
majority of Americans are exhibiting at least
one of the symptoms of post-concussion syndrome…
A survey of more than 31,000 people shows that insufficient sleep,
mental health problems, and stress were the causes of a whole host of symptoms
doctors are used to seeing in head injury patients. Symptoms of what doctors
call post-concussion syndrome (PCS) range from persistent headaches, dizziness
and anxiety, to insomnia and loss of
concentration and
memory.
While 27 percent of people report having several of these
symptoms, between one-half and three-quarters say they experience at least one.
The most common symptoms are fatigue, low energy and drowsiness. Yet despite
their findings, researchers believe the number in the general population could
be much higher.
Of course one of the primary reasons why so many people are acting
like zombies is because we have been drugged out of our minds. Americans
take more legal drugs than anyone ever has in the entire history of the world,
and each year the pharmaceutical companies come up with even more drugs for us
to try.
In particular, because we are so deeply unhappy Americans take
boatloads of anti-depressants. More than 50 million Americans are on
anti-depressants right now, and it gets worse with each passing year.
But even though we are taking so many “happy pills”, Americans
continue to kill themselves at a staggering pace, and this is particularly true
for our young people.
In North
Carolina,
one school superintendent recently shared the fact that “the suicide rate among
teens is higher than the COVID rate of death in their county”…
The debate to reopen schools for in-person learning has
highlighted an alarming idea – that students are not just falling behind
academically, but at a heightened risk of death by suicide.
“One of our local superintendents recently shared with me that the
suicide rate among teens is higher than the COVID rate of death in their
county,” Sen. Deanna Ballard, a Republican from the 45th district,
recently told CBS
17, though
she declined to name the superintendent or county. Ballard did not respond to
NC Health News’ requests for comment.
Isn’t that insane?
You can’t just blame the pandemic for the rise in suicide
either. In fact, the national suicide rate for teens was
skyrocketing before
the pandemic ever began…
The national rate of suicide in young people increased 57 percent
between 2007 and 2018, according to the CDC.
“Even before the pandemic, we’ve been seeing an increase in youth
suicides,” said Virginia Hamlet Rodillas, hotline manager for National Alliance
on Mental Illness NC, which operates a statewide helpline.
If our society is so wonderful, then why are so many kids killing
themselves?
The truth is that our society has become so sick and so twisted
that life seems completely empty to so many of these youths. Life is such
a wonderful gift, and every day should be enjoyed to the fullest, but our
society has become so evil that many teens are killing themselves rather than
live in it one more day.
I once wrote an entire book about why people can
have hope in these deeply troubled times, and I really wish that I could get it
into the hands of everyone in America.
There is hope even for those that are facing the darkest
circumstances, but most people don’t realize that because our society certainly
doesn’t offer any.
Overall life expectancy has been dropping in the U.S. as
well. In fact, during the first half of 2020 life expectancy in the
United States declined by a full
year…
It’s already known that 2020 was the deadliest
year in US history, with deaths topping 3MM for the first time. But the latest
batch of morbid data is in, and they suggest things are about to get worse on
average as life
expectancy in the US dropped a full year during the first
half of the year.
Life expectancy is a statistical measure of the average time a
baby born today is expected to live. From January through June of last year,
that was 77.8 years for the entire U.S. population, down from 78.8 years in
2019. It’s the lowest
level since 2006, the report said.
Our healthcare system has become a complete and utter nightmare,
and it is not going to get any better any time soon.
Speaking of nightmares, our system of public education has become
a sick joke. Just look at what has been going on in
Baltimore…
A shocking discovery out of a Baltimore City high school, where
Project Baltimore has found hundreds of students are failing. It’s a school
where a student who passed three classes in four years, ranks near the top half
of his class with a 0.13 grade point average.
Tiffany France thought her son would receive his diploma this
coming June. But after four years of high school, France just learned, her
17-year-old must start over. He’s been moved back to ninth grade.
Millions upon millions of young people graduate from high school
each year, but many of them can barely read, write or speak in public.
I could go on and on. Just about every system that you could
possibly name is in the process of failing, and that is probably why our
satisfaction with the way our country is functioning is at the lowest level
ever measured. The following comes from
Gallup…
Americans’ satisfaction with seven broad aspects of the way the
country functions is collectively at its lowest in two decades of Gallup
measurement. This includes satisfaction with the overall quality of life in the
U.S., assessments of government, corporate and religious influence, and
perceptions of the economic and moral climates.
The average percentage satisfied with these seven dimensions has
plunged to 39% at the start of 2021. That compares with 53% a year ago, the
highest average in more than a decade amid strong
economic confidence and before the coronavirus pandemic took hold in the U.S.
So once again I wish to pose a question to you.
Is the quality of life in America getting better, or is it getting
worse?
The answer is quite obvious, and the rest of the world is laughing
at us as our once great nation steadily deteriorates.
***Michael’s new book entitled “Lost Prophecies Of The Future Of
America” is now available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.***
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Economic Collapse.
SIDEBAR:
Our politicians have
turned our financial system into a game of Monopoly.
And it doesn’t take a fancy MBA degree to see this — the
evidence is overwhelming to anyone who pops their head up and pays attention
for a few moments.
Stocks continue to hit all-time highs as ‘economic growth’
remains halted from the coronavirus...
The Federal Reserve printing a seemingly infinite supply of
money with no repercussions…
inflation fears are starting to grow…
There is less and less that the government can do to keep things
afloat.
America’s ‘day of reckoning’ is knocking at our door.
Unfortunately, it might happen sooner than later…
the attacks on Christianity, the family,
individual freedom, morality and moral judgements; multiculturalism; the cult
of victimhood, ‘tolerance,’ political correctness, the replacement of the roles
of family, religion, individual responsibility and choice with government
rules, laws and regs…”
The takeover of
the universities has spread to the newsrooms… and now to the workplace at
large.
The purges aren’t just
coming — they’re here.
Some recent examples of people who’ve been “cancelled,” from all walks of life…
- A curator at the San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art resigned last week after 20 years because he said,
“We will definitely still continue to collect white artists”
- A Boeing executive recently
resigned after only six months on the job because when he was a Navy
pilot, he wrote an article opposing women in combat. He wrote the
offending article… in 1987
- A worker for the electric
utility in San Diego was fired because he was seen making the “OK” sign in
his company truck — unbeknownst to him, a white-power gesture. (He says he
was cracking his knuckles.)
Of course, private employers have the right to
hire and fire as they wish. But ponder the irony here: “It is strange that
‘cancel culture’ has become a project of the left, which spent the 20th century
fighting against capricious firings of ‘troublesome’ employees,” writes Helen
Lewis in The Atlantic.
➢ There’s a petition to get a college
instructor in New York fired because it looked as if she might have
nodded off during a Zoom meeting to discuss the adoption of an “anti-racist
framework.”
[March 2021 update:The corporate media never followed up on the instructor's fate,
having quickly moved on to the next hair-on-fire outrage du jour…
“Many progressives today are not aware that the struggle for
free speech was a central project of the left and something that was
historically resisted by the right,” writes Leigh Phillips at Jacobin magazine.
Gone are the days when the left rallied around the socialist
leader Eugene Debs — thrown in prison under the Espionage Act of 1917 merely
for giving a speech in which he said bankers and arms merchants stood to gain
the most from American entry into World War I. (That law remains on the books
today.)
Gone too are the days of the late 1970s, when the ACLU stood up
for the right of neo-Nazis to march through Skokie, Illinois — a largely Jewish
suburb of Chicago. Nowadays, the ACLU considers “the potential effect on
marginalized communities” when deciding which free speech cases it will
litigate.
“Too many modern progressives, particularly younger ones, have
become indifferent to free speech,” Phillips continues, “or, worse, come to
view the defense of free speech as something foreign to the left and a weapon
of oppression.”
Where does it end? In “historic disaster,”
Democrats are about to
go tax-crazy, just as they promised.
Well, let’s be clear about something – they’re not exactly doing
what they promised. President Joe Biden told Americans that no one making under
$400,000 a year would see an increase in taxes. This is simply not true.
Democrats plan to raise taxes in many ways
– which will impact everyone.
This
is one of the more blatant examples.
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