> 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. "…affluent middle-class Democrats now seem to be complacently servile toward authority and automatically believe everything party leaders tell them. Why? Is it because the new professional class is a glossy product of generically institutionalized learning? Independent thought and logical analysis of argument are no longer taught. Elite education in the U.S. has become a frenetic assembly line of competitive college application to schools where ideological brainwashing is so pandemic that it’s invisible. The top schools, from the Ivy League on down, promote “critical thinking,” which sounds good but is in fact just a style of rote regurgitation of hackneyed approved terms (”racism, sexism, homophobia”) when confronted with any social issue. The Democratic brain has been marinating so long in those cliches that it’s positively pickled… By a proportion of something like 10-to-1, negative articles by conservatives were vastly more detailed, specific and practical about the proposals than were supportive articles by Democrats, which often made gestures rather than arguments and brimmed with emotion and sneers. There was a glaring inability in most Democratic commentary to think ahead and forecast what would or could be the actual snarled consequences-- in terms of delays, denial of services, errors, miscommunications and gross invasions of privacy -- of a massive single-payer overhaul of the healthcare system in a nation as large and populous as ours. It was as if Democrats live in a utopian dream world, divorced from the daily demands and realities of organization and management. " Read more. http://www.salon.com/opinion/paglia/2009/09/09/healthcare/ ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
