Why is life expectancy of Americans continuing to decline?

Roger L. Simon writes at PJ Media,

...Despite all the miraculous advances in modern medicine, a large percentage of which emanate from American laboratories, the life expectancy of our citizens has declined for the second year in a row, according to the Centers for Disease Control. This is unprecedented in recent times. Principle reason? We all know it -- drugs. 72,000 Americans died from drug overdoses in 2017 alone, up from 63,000 in 2016.

Is Hezbollah responsible for all of this? Of course not. Some are coming over the Mexican border, some arriving from China and some from who knows where. But Hezbollah has no doubt been involved with enough of the supply to give it credit for a death count way in excess of those who died in 9/11. That was slightly less than three thousand people and certainly did not move the actuarial tables the way the opioid scandal does year in and year out, not even close.

So props to Barack Obama. Not only did his Iran Deal enrich the mullahs' coffers so Hezbollah and the Revolutionary Guard could murder tens, maybe hundreds, of thousands in Syria, it primed the pumps for the Hezzies to keep on drugging Americans as well.

Will the wall cure this? Again, of course not, not by itself. It will only do some as yet undetermined amount. And Hezbollah, as we are learning, has plenty of experience tunneling under walls -- though there are those who have experience dealing with those tunnelers.

Nevertheless, the objections to building a wall along our Southern border are ludicrous. The five billion dollars, though large to us private citizens, is a trivial number in the federal budget, well worth the money if it saves even one life. It will undoubtedly save a lot more than that.

Pelosi and Schumer must know that. Well, maybe not. They certainly don't act that way, on or off TV. They seem like blind political automatons. Desperation for partisan advantage is its own kind of Alzheimer's disease.

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