Sorry, but I’m not sure why you’re so excited about stats on infant mortality and life expectancy. It’s only among the US underclass that these rates are higher than first-world average; and it strikes me that *increasing* infant mortality and *decreasing* life expectancy among burdens-on-society is prudent policy. After all, a healthy economy needs mechanisms for winnowing out the weak and inferior.
In fact, I think that as a condition of welfare eligiblity, all applicants should be obliged to enter a lottery for involuntary organ-harvesting. That way, they can contribute at least something to society by extending the life of a productive citizen. I acknowledge that the effective return on this program will be fairly low, as most of the poor are riddled with drugs and disease and their organs will have to be discarded unused, but it would at least be a humanitarian gesture towards social justice.
