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To: TimF who wrote (5491)	1/10/2017 4:14:16 PM
From: KyrosL	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 354607

There are some indisputable facts that the link you provided ignores and obfuscates. Life expectancy of the US should not be compared to the world as a whole, as item 3 implies (excluding Africa from the statistics, but including desperately poor countries with low life expectancies like India etc.) but rather to developed countries. The argument that the US life expectancy is pushed below other developed countries by poor blacks is false. In 2014, the life expectancy of whites in the USA was 78.8 years. In France it was 81.8 years. Note that France has a large underclass of poor immigrant Moslems and African blacks with low life expectancies, and their total life expectancy still beats by a staggering 3 years the life expectancy of WHITE Americans. " Life expectancy fell for the U.S. white population in 2014 and remained flat for all population groups combined, according to data released Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, showing how increases in death rates from suicides, drug overdoses and related causes are threatening an important measure of health and prosperity. The number of years a white American born in 2014 could be expected to live fell to 78.8 years from 78.9 years the year before, according to the CDC. The change was driven largely by women." more here: wsj.com