Economic Fallout Has Spurred an Epidemic of Murder and Suicide That Has Gone Largely Unnoticed

[dreamdancer 0]

interesting...

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After David B. Kellermann, the chief financial officer of beleaguered mortgage giant Freddie Mac, tied a noose and hanged himself in the basement of his Vienna, Virginia, home, the New York Times made it a front-page story. The stresses of the job in economic tough times, its reporters implied, had driven him to this extreme act.

"Binghamton Shooter" Jiverly Wong also garnered front-page headlines nationwide and set off a cable news frenzy when, "bitter over job loss," he massacred 13 people at an immigration center in upstate New York. Similarly, coverage was brisk after Pittsburgh resident Richard Poplawski, "upset about recently losing a job," shot four local police officers, killing three of them.

But where was the front-page treatment when, in January, Betty Lipply, a 72-year-old resident of East Palestine, Ohio, "who feared she'd lose her home to foreclosure hanged herself to death" shortly after "receiving her second summons and foreclosure complaint from her mortgage lender"? And where was the up-to-the-minute cable news reporting on the two California dairy farmers who "killed themselves ... out of despair over finances, according to associates"?

Last summer, in the pages of the Nation magazine, Barbara Ehrenreich called attention to people turning to "the suicide solution" in response to the burgeoning financial crisis. Months later, major news outlets started to examine the same phenomenon. Last fall, a TomDispatch report on suicides and a range of other extreme acts -- including self-inflicted injury, murder, arson, and armed self-defense -- in response to foreclosures, evictions, bankruptcies, and layoffs, was followed, months later, by mainstream media attention to the notion of "econo-cide" -- prompted, in large part, by a spate of familicides (murder/suicides in which both parents and their children die).

While it's impossible to know the myriad factors, including deeply personal ones, that contribute to people resorting to drastic measures, violent or otherwise, many press reports suggest that the global economic crisis has played no small part in a range of extreme acts.

http://www.alternet.org/workplace/140455/economic_fallout_has_spurred_an_epidemic_of_murder_and_suicide_that_has_gone_largely_unnoticed_/

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[kelpdiver 2]

there are tens of thousands of suicides a year. Talking about a dozen of them proves not a thing. It wouldn't surprise me, and the data exists to make a real argument.

Murders? After exceeding 100 the past couple years, SF is at only 17 to date. What does that mean?

[metalslug 36]

Dude,
You just keep sticking it out there for forum members to cut it off each time.
Is someone putting you up to this ?
Enough with the alternetive reality shows already

[justinb138 0]

If you keep posting from that site someone's going to replace you with an RSS feed.

[Rookie120 0]

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Murders? After exceeding 100 the past couple years, SF is at only 17 to date. What does that mean?

Some really good bud got shipped in?

If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck!

[Rookie120 0]

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Enough with the alternetive reality shows already

Reminds me of a guy at work who would bring in stuff from this site everyday.

http://www.rense.com/

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[lawrocket 3]

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And where was the up-to-the-minute cable news reporting on the two California dairy farmers who "killed themselves ... out of despair over finances, according to associates"?

It's closer to five. I happened to be acquainted with one of them. IF you want to talk about people facing serious economic times right now, I'll give you a tour of my part of the world. Between plunging milk prices and increased feed costs dairies are hurting in California.

Also add regulations to ensure that farmers don't get water, we've got a couple of communities here at over 40% unemployment. Mostly from politics.

But I note that suicides have always been a factor. I believe that the roughly 50% drop in the value of dairies over the last year or so had a lot to do. But the one with whom I am acquainted also had other dealings. And a fairly young family....

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[dreamdancer 0]

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And where was the up-to-the-minute cable news reporting on the two California dairy farmers who "killed themselves ... out of despair over finances, according to associates"?

It's closer to five. I happened to be acquainted with one of them. IF you want to talk about people facing serious economic times right now, I'll give you a tour of my part of the world. Between plunging milk prices and increased feed costs dairies are hurting in California.

Also add regulations to ensure that farmers don't get water, we've got a couple of communities here at over 40% unemployment. Mostly from politics.

But I note that suicides have always been a factor. I believe that the roughly 50% drop in the value of dairies over the last year or so had a lot to do. But the one with whom I am acquainted also had other dealings. And a fairly young family....

so it wouldn't be appropriate to call these farmers 'loser leeches' who have now, through their bad choices, left their children in the lurch.

(meanwhile the bankers all swap assets and smile for the cameras)

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[kelpdiver 2]

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(meanwhile the bankers all swap assets and smile for the cameras)

So you missed the tales of bankers killing themselves, or did they not count?

Your blindness is amazing - there are a hell of a lot of unemployed people from the financial sectors.

[lawrocket 3]

Call these farmers leeches? No. Heck, these dudes that offed themselves certainly are not drains on the system.

Though I suspect their deaths really pissed off the people who rely on their support, like his wife, kids and loser leech welfare queens.

But, as I said, it wasn't the dairy alone. There were a couple of other more significant factors that led to his decision. I believe it had something to do with a rather painful death he would suffer in the next 6-12 months and wanting to put neither himself nor his family through it.

With the dairy dropping in value, a new air rule that would have cost him about $80k to get compliant, his brother scamming him for a significant sum and learning he was a dead man, let's just say he had a pretty rough 3 or 4 months from which he thought he couldn't recover.

At least, that's what I understood.

So, yeah, I guess if you view him as a leech then we have different definitions.

I don't condone what he did. But I can see how that choice had a certain draw to him.

Those poor welfare recipients. Someone might get less Section 8 money now. That sonofabitch.

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[jcd11235 0]

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Murders? After exceeding 100 the past couple years, SF is at only 17 to date. What does that mean?

dM/dt , where M is the number of murders.

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