Reply #52: why the increase in "middle aged" suicides? [View All]

[Esya]

1. Their retirement funds, including private ones, have been robbed repeatedly by corporations and the government since the Reagan era and after.
2. They are the sandwich generation: started having kids late, now burdened with both elderly parents and self centered kids.
3. The republicans have bashed their ethics, morals, and sense of self worth since the 1990s.
4. Their employers are 90% jerks and 10% insolvent.
5. They went through one of the highest divorce rate periods in our country and many never recovered.
6. They are living long enough to realize they have way too many more years until retirement, and not enough health coverage or retirement income coming.
7. The younger workers are too inexperienced to do the work and too impatient to know it.
8. The white men are bashed by minorities, and the women, by Obamaites.
9. The minorities are just getting out of prison in droves.
10. Their children are either anxious about their future, or disrespectful of the effort that the 45 to 54 year olds have to put in.
11. Their major asset, their homes, are dropping in value.
12. They know they are well past the point of being able to increase their income making potential.
13. Their mom's on welfare and needs constant help.
14. Their disabled children receive less help at any time since the great depression.

How do I know? I am 54 and exhausted, and have 14 years to go, and everyone around me resents that I am still a working female--like Hillary.