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This stuff has been going on well before the economy turned sour. This is sensationalism at its worst.
Which is even worse.
You know, Jefferson and Washington, and Adams if they could go back in time would just sit and drink and shut up. What a waste has been thier effort, though still amazing.
In Massachusetts, a housewife who had hidden her family's mounting financial crisis from her husband sends a note to the mortgage company warning: "By the time you foreclose on my house, I'll be dead." Then Carlene Balderrama shot herself to death, leaving an insurance policy and a suicide note on a table.
Too bad the insurance company will get the last laugh. Tragic? Yes. Covered? No.
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But even murder/suicides are not examples of people lashing out violently against the extermal cause of their plight, which is what happens with a society turns violent. They are just taking their family with them.
Violence is perpetrated in different ways. So your saying that shooting a helpless child in the head is a nonviolent act?
Violence is perpetrated in different ways. So your saying that shooting a helpless child in the head is a nonviolent act?
It's a violent act, but it is not an indicator that a nation or a culture is turning to violence as a response to social upheavals. There are hundreds, maybe thousands of isolated violent acts in America every day. That by itself does not say "violent solutions" have arisen.
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I agree that the title was not well thaught out. I wouldn't call suicide a "solution", more like a "bad conclusion". It is isolated. And I think that the word "fear" was used just to draw attention.
"As the economy sinks, officials fear violent solutions"
Revised: "As the economy stinks, officials fear the oder came from them creating unexpected conclusions"
I think that hard times and economic pressures can make some people feel so hopeless and depressed that they honestly believe there is no other way out.
I also think that when our political leaders start taking cheap shots at one another in their campagn ads that it can insite anger and potential violant behavior.
Too bad the insurance company will get the last laugh. Tragic? Yes. Covered? No.
Guess you got the dime-store policy, eh...
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