Republicans don't like people to talk about depressions. You can hardly blame them for that. You remember the old saying: Don't talk about rope in the house where somebody has been hanged.

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Republicans don't like people to talk about depressions. You can hardly blame them for that. You remember the old saying: Don't talk about rope in the house where somebody has been hanged. When people think of depressions, they usually think of suicide.

That's how it should be, but not everybody wants to die. Some people are depressed and want to live; they don't want to kill themselves. So the Republicans try to keep silent about depressions and make sure nobody talks about them at all.

But I guess, like all things, it's only a matter of time before the Republicans will have to admit they've been wrong, because there is so much talk about depressions these days.

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