I don't think it can be emphasised enough the murderous effects
“austerity” has on the ordinary people. As the millionaire cabal
talk of tough decisions and tightening belts around their over fed bellies, to the vast
majority that means a deterioration in their health. It means cold homes in winter, and kids
being deprived of decent meals, therefore jeopardising their
future health. It can, and does, also mean stress and deteriorating
mental health, and in many cases suicide, as the task of surviving at
a decent level becomes impossible. All this is heaped on a population
at the dictate of a wealthy elite who are immune to the ravages of
that “austerity”. What is more the reasoning behind this policy
of “austerity” is supposed to be for “our” benefit, to bring
us prosperity, pie-in-the-sky, in some distant future, when in actual fact all we are doing is suffering
poverty and all its vile manifestations, in an attempt to recoup the
gambling losses of the financial Mafia.
Every cut in the social
welfare is a step towards deprivation, and to some, a step towards an
early grave. “Austerity” is a cull on the working class, every
deterioration in living conditions is avoidable. Poverty, mental and
physical health problems are not accidents, they are the direct
result of deliberate policies carried out by an extremely wealthy
bunch of self-interested, greed parasites, they are fully aware of the effects, but care not a jot. As long as they are in
power, they will do nothing that might jeopardise their own wealth
and power, we will always be used to further their wealth and
power. Of course there is an alternative, put the ordinary people in
power, and let them shape society to the benefit of all our people.
This from
Xpressed:
4 additional observations complement the answer to your question:
a) We have an impressive 36% growth of suicide attempts from 2009
to 2011 and a statistically significant relationship between economic
hardship (poverty, unemployment, inability to find financial
resources for survival) and suicidality in overall population.
b) In our country, due to religious beliefs and the culture of
orthodox Christianity (as well as the ‘indirect’ suicides caused
in the context of road accidents), there is a strong bias against
families declaring suicide as the cause of a sudden death of one of
their members (for reasons of being able to hold a religious
ceremony).
c) Requests for psychological help that the telephone help lines
receive for depression and suicides have increased in recent years by
an average of 27% (UMHRI,2010).
d) Furthermore, according to Stuckler (2009), at European level,
1% increase in unemployment is associated with a 0.79% rise in
suicides, at ages less than 65 years and every 3% increase in
unemployment is associated with a 4.45% increase of suicides.
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