> As one with family from Cuba and some friends remaining, I can assure
> you that Jeff W. has no idea about Cuba, considering his comments. It's
> their health care insurance system and outcomes that are better than
> ours, not the high tech gadgets and expensive doctors. The Cuban
> government, thanks to US intervention and unnecessary embargos, is
> oppressive, and the people are suffering from that. Government
> oppression has not affected the affordability and quality of outcomes in
> Cuba, which are more favorable than in the US, with insurance and care
> universally available, unlike here.
I was wondering when you would get around to apologizing for tyrants.
The Cuban govt is oppressive because it chooses to be and can be. The embargo
is stupid and should have been lifted long ago, but many, many other countries
have managed to oppress their people without any US embargo.
I thought of you and your talking points post when I read Camille Paglia's
latest column.
Oh, please, not Camille Paglia! She's a walking oxymoron--a hostile
misogynist feminist flamethrower. Is she stupid enough to think that
town hall disruptions and "teabaggers" weren't Astroturf corporate
shills and misinformed puppets? I doubt it. Does she really believe that
Democrats as a whole are wealthy zombies? Get real. It's an umbrella
coalition with diverse factions. A flame-thrower for over 30 years,
Paglia doesn't like to be confused with the facts when her reality
distortions get her more money and recognition. Seems to be the kind of
liberal that David Horowitz and Linda Chavez were before they found out
they could make more money pretending to be conservative.
Your mistake is twofold. First you are equating the Cuban government
with its generous social system. It's encouraging that an oppressive
government takes care of its citizens as well as it can afford, unless,
of course, you directly oppose the government and are thrown in jail.
The Cuban government is oppressive because some leaders are paranoid and
power-hungry.
The paranoia is understandable considering the more severe oppression of
US-backed Fulgencio Batista, who was given $1 million each day by the
Mafia, to allow them to rape the country in the aftermath of the coups
that overthrew popularly elected presidents, as the US did in Nicaragua,
Panama, Iran, Australia, Mexico, and other countries. The main
difference is that the proximity of Cuba made both sides even more
paranoid than other countries that suffered from US manipulation.
The widespread mis-/disinformation that's readily believed by too many
Americans is a failure of our education system, dumbed down by Bush-era
changes in NCLB, emphasizing multiple-guess tests instead of teaching
and encouraging children to be able to discern fact from fiction, in
printed media, and especially on the Internet.
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