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Right-wing governments 'increase suicide rates'

category national | miscellaneous | news report author Thursday September 19, 2002 11:26author by pat c

Right-wing governments may sap some people's will to live and result in more suicides, conclude studies in Britain and Australia. The researchers speculate that losers are more likely to kill themselves in the individualistic, "winner-takes-all" societies favoured by right wing governments, because they are left to fend for themselves. Wide disparities in wealth also sharpen any sense of hopelessness, the researchers argue.(More at New Scientist.)

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just look at Hungary´s health figures.
author by o as if = iosaf - Reclaim the streets!publication date Thu Sep 19, 2002 19:49author email ipsiphi23 at email dot comauthor address codols23 Barcelona 08002 Catalunyaauthor phone 0034 679 708 674

all you need do is look at the public health figures for Hungary and a society which underwent transformation from comand economy comunism bolshevik stuff to free market capitalism in a short space of time.
The rate of suicide and cancer and heart problems went through the roof.
Librarian can you find the back-up facts for this?
as RTS pointed out many times b4 in London the major cause of health problems for western civilisation citizens is depression.
The rest of the world just die ´coz they can´t afford patented drugs., or don´t buy the right mineral water or something.

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