With every American who commits suicide thanks to corporate america,

[Deja Q]

America has one less person who'd defend his country in the time of a real attack.

Just something to ponder.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. People may laugh.... but then again, read on..... here, there, it's all

the same... and it may be coming to a small town near you.

>>More than 90% of suicide victims were in debt. Yet a table on page 63 has mysteriously reduced debt as a reason for suicide to 2.6%, and equally mysteriously, "suicide victims having a bad habit" has emerged as the primary cause of farmers suicides.,,


http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2004-02/19shiva.cfm

The Suicide Economy Of Corporate Globalisation

By Vandana Shiva

The Indian peasantry, the largest body of surviving small farmers in the world, today faces a crisis of extinction.

Two thirds of India makes its living from the land. The earth is the most generous employer in this country of a billion, that has farmed this land for more than 5000 years.

However, as farming is delinked from the earth, the soil, the biodiversity, and the climate, and linked to global corporations and global markets, and the generosity of the earth is replaced by the greed of corporations, the viability of small farmers and small farms is destroyed. Farmers suicides are the most tragic and dramatic symptom of the crisis of survival faced by Indian peasants.

1997 witnessed the first emergence of farm suicides in India. A rapid increase in indebtedness, was at the root of farmers taking their lives. Debt is a reflection of a negative economy, a loosing economy. Two factors have transformed the positive economy of agriculture into a negative economy for peasants - the rising costs of production and the falling prices of farm commodities. Both these factors are rooted in the policies of trade liberalization and corporate globalisation.

[Deja Q]

2. They shouldn't laugh.

There are so many reasons why our system is wrong.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

3. Our system is based on self. Self interest is not necessarily the

best of things.. sometimes it is the worst of things... or so it is said. Imagine if there was a magazine in Amerika named "Self". Ooops, too late.

[Hello_Kitty]

4. I was thinking debt as soon as I read the OP.

Wait a couple years until you see the bankruptcy laws take effect here.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

5. Oh don't worry... .our system supports the top 2% so that we can go

out and dig through their trash cans in the middle of the night looking for our tax cuts.... not to mention that they can trickle down their legs on us and wash us clean of our poverty.... eh... maybe.... maybe not. Heh heh heh....

[WindRavenX]

6. my dad is suicidal because of his massive debts

Thanks, America.

He's the smartest person I know...