At 01:04 PM 1/28/01 +1300, Bob Henderson wrote:
>If the other examples are incorrect, please direct me to some proof. I
>should have mentioned that Cuba provides free health care for all its
>people. How is it that a socialist dictatorship in the third world can
>achieve that when the richest country in the world can not?
Quality not quantity. In Cuba, you also go to jail if you have AIDS - it
really cuts down on the health care costs that way.
US Health Care /= Cuban Health Care.
>My point is that there are other measurements of development rather than
>wealth of the economy which is concentrated in the hands of few.
That's certainly true. One such measure of this is the UN Human
Development Index. I don't know if 2000 has been released yet, but in
1999 the USA ranked #3. So much for big evil corporations making the USA
a living hell.
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0778562.html
>. Somehow an American
>revolution that overthrows British control is noble but a Cuban revolution
>that overthrows Mafia control is evil and requires 40 years of sanctions,
Bzzzt. Try again. The United States was the first country to recognize
the Castro Government.
Somehow, I don't think that it was the *revolution* that we had a problem
with.
>Somehow an Iraqi
>invasion of Iran is legal and good and results in the west supplying
>conventional and biological weapons to Iraq
Biological? Uh...... I highly doubt it.
> an Iraqi invasion of Kuwait
>is evil and bad and results in the death of at least half a million children
>so far most of whom were not born at the time of the invasion. Somehow the
>American invasion of Panama is legal and good.
Let's see: US invasion of Panama results in self-government and democracy
for Panamians.
Iraqi invasion of Kuwait: pillaging, burning, raping, and killing.
Do you sleep well at night Bob?
>History teaches us that the strong have always exploited, conned and
>slaughtered the weak to satisfy the greed of the strong. The strong have
>always been able to rationalise and justify such behaviour.
Has anything changed? Yeah, now the rich are changed confiscatory tax
rates of nearly 40% in order to support the poor. And that's just for
starters.......
JDG
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