Posted by (+3792) 7 years ago
Thoughts?
Tucker Bolton wrote:My fear is that Cuba will become just another retail opportunity for the capitalist whores.
I'm sure things will get a lot worse when the "capitalist whores" start giving them jobs at the Havana Walmart.
Tucker Bolton wrote:The alleged despot Fidel and Raul travel without bodyguards, unmolested through the streets of Cuba.
Oddjob wrote:"Hitler could (and did) travel unmolested, as well."
Bridgier wrote:Whenever connors field at denton park needs a renovation, oddjob is always the first one there to help move the goalposts.
Tucker Bolton wrote:I was really hoping to hear more than the party line on this subject. The resiliency of the Cuban people throughout the embargo is more than admirable. Oddjob, you are correct about the CIA murder of Che. His sister is still a practicing physician in Havana. She and the staff at her hospital treated a boatload of 9/11 first responders that were refused treatment in New York, including a years supply of medication, free of charge.
For ten years after the soviets pulled out, Cubans pulled together and planted the entire country and fed themselves while keeping the schools running and education remained free through the university level. The alleged despot Fidel and Raul travel without bodyguards, unmolested through the streets of Cuba.
It isn't a socialist, utopia. Nothing is but it is not as irreparably broken and corrupt as amerika has become.
"If there is one thing for which Cuba has received praise over the years, it is the Communist government's state-run healthcare system.
Much of this praise is well-deserved. Despite its scarce resources, Cuba has one of the world's lowest infant mortality rates - just slightly lower than that of the US. Life expectancy is 77.5 years, one of the world's highest. And until not so long ago, there was one doctor for every 170 citizens - the highest patient-per-doctor ratio in the world.
Of course, the government can afford so many doctors because they are paid extremely low salaries by international standards. The average is between $30 and $50 per month.
And the benefits of this healthcare have not only been felt by Cubans.
Under Fidel Castro, the former Cuban president, hundreds of child victims of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, left without proper medical attention after the collapse of the Soviet Union, were invited to Cuba. A hospital was constructed to treat them while they and their families set up temporary residence in Tarara, a beautiful seaside neighbourhood near Havana. Many remain there today."
"The unique thing about the Cuban effort is not only the number of health professionals they send, but also where they are sent. According to Huish, Cuba has dispatched doctors to its political enemies just as often as its friends, especially in Latin America, and has achieved real diplomatic results by doing so. “There was a massive earthquake in Nicaragua in the ’70s,” Huish said. “Cuba was one of the first countries to show up, and that was a dictatorship that actively supported the overthrow of the Cuban government. Uruguay opposed them in the ’90s but Cuba sent medicine. Same thing with Mexico and Honduras. Through these medical exchanges, now there are very warm relations.”
Oddjob wrote:"There isn't a Doctor in this county that takes Medicare..."
T S EliotWe are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw.
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
By Robert ZimmermanWell, I couldn’t leave
Unless the old man chased me out
’Cause I’d already promised
That I’d milk his cows
I had to say something
To strike him very weird
So I yelled out
“I like Fidel Castro and his beard”
Rita looked offended
But she got out of the way
As he came charging down the stairs
Sayin’, “What’s that I heard you say?”
I said, “I like Fidel Castro
I think you heard me right”
And ducked as he swung
At me with all his might
Rita mumbled something
’Bout her mother on the hill
As his fist hit the icebox
He said he’s going to kill me
If I don’t get out the door
In two seconds flat
“You unpatriotic
Rotten doctor Commie rat”