U.S. life expectancy hits record high

[loco]

Several causes resulted in Americans averaging more than 78 years of life for the first time.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110316/ap_on_he_me/us_med_us_life_expectancy



Just watch the retirement age in the US go up to 85. 

[loco]

"The influenza/pneumonia death rate dropped nearly 5 percent, even though 2009 was the year that the swine flu pandemic hit."

Now that's funny!  Remember all the panic over the swine flu pandemic?  I remember Dr. Ron Paul saying from the very beginning that it was no cause for alarm and that the government and the media were overreacting.

[240 is Back]

Thanks, Obama!

[loco]

Thanks, Obama!

"But not everyone benefitted. While life expectancy for whites rose, it held steady for blacks. The infant mortality rate for black babies did not improve either.

As a result, the racial gap got a little wider. Whites already live about four years longer than blacks, and the margin grew by about two months."

[Soul Crusher]