Joe Biden's Presidency

[natepro]

Once again, your reading comprehension fails you at an incredibly humorous time. This is from NBC. I don't believe Tucker Carlson works there.
More obsession with Tucker Carlson? You watch far more Fox News than I do, so you'll have to tell me what he thinks.
Nice work, Nate.

The money, genius, how much of the money was from Tucker Carlson? I couldn't even begin to tell you the last time I watched Fox News. A bit the night of Obama's reelection, maybe? You seem to be confusing me for someone else.

[Sluggo1]

As one who works in mental health nursing, and with a lot of veterans, I have seen a lot of these problems. There are not enough places for people to go to get help. I am not blaming Biden for this, either. Mental health hospital beds are expensive and the VA, Medicare and private insurance don't pay as much for them as they do for a med-surg bed.

I wouldn't blame the Biden Admin for any increase in suicide rates either. I think it is endemic as to how our society is evolving. You used to be able to do a lot more with a lot less. That is not the case anymore. You also didn't know what you didn't have nor was there such a push to show you what you didn't have. Now with the internet and all the messages, everyone tells you what they have (even if they don't really "have" it). Some people get depressed over over not being able to keep up.

Society heeds to come up with a way for the lower third or quarter to live a decent life and we have shortchanged that portion of our people.. Reasonable housing, vehicles, hard goods, clothing food, entertainment……all used to be part of life for everyone. Not so much anymore.

Of course, I'm living in the past.

[dbroncos78087]

I wouldn't blame the Biden Admin for any increase in suicide rates either. I think it is endemic as to how our society is evolving. You used to be able to do a lot more with a lot less. That is not the case anymore. You also didn't know what you didn't have nor was there such a push to show you what you didn't have. Now with the internet and all the messages, everyone tells you what they have (even if they don't really "have" it). Some people get depressed over over not being able to keep up.

Society heeds to come up with a way for the lower third or quarter to live a decent life and we have shortchanged that portion of our people.. Reasonable housing, vehicles, hard goods, clothing food, entertainment……all used to be part of life for everyone. Not so much anymore.

Of course, I'm living in the past.

This isn't new in American life (or humanity as a whole). There are tales as old as time about people being so upset about being part of the have nots and hating or coveting the haves. This compulsion to pretend like things were peachy keen back in the day and are just terrible now is also nothing new.

[brett05]

And you would be wrong.

I believe I did say that there was so much damage to property, cities etc.that the end result of all the grief could (remember "could") have resulted in deaths due to severe life changes as a result of the "peaceful" protests. Sort of the high rate of drug overdoses and suicides being contributed to the Cvid lockdowns. "Official" murder??? No. But dead nonetheless. Dead is dead.

ok then it was someone else. No worries.

[natepro]

to be clear I'm not blaming any of this on Biden, but apparently, both dissertations and suicides are way up in the Navy since 2019. I guess it's only in the Navy too.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world...ategory=foryou

I think you mean desertions.

[spliff(TONE)]

Sorry that I wasn't recording the news that was constantly showing it.
I want to say Sluggo said it earlier, it doesn't count because BLM isn't classified by some as an issue.

If only there was some like world wide web type of thing that archived news stories and such that one could share with others.

[Sluggo1]

I think you mean desertions.

I'm sure of it.

[Sluggo1]

ok then it was someone else. No worries.

I never worry.

Of course, I'm probably lying.

[WES445]

This isn't new in American life (or humanity as a whole). There are tales as old as time about people being so upset about being part of the have nots and hating or coveting the haves. This compulsion to pretend like things were peachy keen back in the day and are just terrible now is also nothing new.

I keep telling people that Americans are way over stressed nowadays, so of course you are going to see a raise in suicides, and rage killings. It happen during the depression as well. Stories of high level businessmen losing everything and taking a dive out of a window, Mafia, drive by and bombings. Bad times are called bad times for a reason. For a long time we thought we were immune to it, asleep at the wheel on this, now the rude awakening.

[Sluggo1]

This isn't new in American life (or humanity as a whole). There are tales as old as time about people being so upset about being part of the have nots and hating or coveting the haves. This compulsion to pretend like things were peachy keen back in the day and are just terrible now is also nothing new.

Bolded……this is true.

And I guess I did not do a good job of clarifying my point.

Which is (or should have been) ……it should be easier to become part of the "haves" for just simple, everyday people. There should be ways for people to have fairly prices reasonable housing, affordable healthcare and affordable advanced education.

People also need to be reasonable with their expectations. Maybe the "cool dudes" need to be satisfied with driving a Sentra or Corolla instead of the snazzy beemer at three times the cost. Maybe the hottie chicks could wear cheaper clothes and shoes.

How much control should society have over its citizens??? Should we be allowed to get "payday loans" from check cashing service??? Or rent furniture (place in FL where you can rent cool wheel, not a car, just wheels for your cars)??? Or take out stupid auto loans (6-7 years, really???) Should banks give you a credit card when they have seen your credit history and know you are maxed out???? Or allow credit card cash advances??? Or loans for an expensive dog etc.??? I hate the concept of protecting people from themselves, but for some people it may not be a bad idea.

I dunno.

[valade16]

Sorry that I wasn't recording the news that was constantly showing it.
I want to say Sluggo said it earlier, it doesn't count because BLM isn't classified by some as an issue.

No need to apologize. If it was happening so frequently it should be easy to find. I’ll await the instances.

[valade16]

I wouldn't blame the Biden Admin for any increase in suicide rates either. I think it is endemic as to how our society is evolving. You used to be able to do a lot more with a lot less. That is not the case anymore. You also didn't know what you didn't have nor was there such a push to show you what you didn't have. Now with the internet and all the messages, everyone tells you what they have (even if they don't really "have" it). Some people get depressed over over not being able to keep up.

Society heeds to come up with a way for the lower third or quarter to live a decent life and we have shortchanged that portion of our people.. Reasonable housing, vehicles, hard goods, clothing food, entertainment……all used to be part of life for everyone. Not so much anymore.

Of course, I'm living in the past.

Why don’t they just work harder and get better jobs?

[Bird of Prey]

I think you mean desertions.

I wonder if the change in the woke and White Supremist charges and interrogations being forced down military members by the stupid new Defense Secretary and Armed Forces Chairman account for any of this crap? As for mental health services made available in the veteran's administration, my experience is that any veteran who needs help will get it if they ask for it and it is very good.

[Sluggo1]

Why don’t they just work harder and get better jobs?

Point missed………again.

[Sluggo1]

I wonder if the change in the woke and White Supremist charges and interrogations being forced down military members by the stupid new Defense Secretary and Armed Forces Chairman account for any of this crap? As for mental health services made available in the veteran's administration, my experience is that any veteran who needs help will get it if they ask for it and it is very good.

Interestign point……and there may be sopme validity to it.