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Re:Cuba?
Yeah, it's easy to keep that infant mortality rate low when the gov aborts children the test as sick before they're born.
http://www.canf.org/Issues/medicalapartheid.htm
http://www.nationalcenter.org/NPA557_Cuban_Health_Care.html
http://www.therealcuba.com/Page10.htmThese not mainstream enough for you? 20/20 did a story for ya
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-8TcpOz6A4Here's fox, but we all know their biased
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6Ve9wA1cpc&feature=relatedI'm so excited to turn out like this.
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Re:Cuba?
I'll see your link and raise you one. Big deal
http://www.nationalcenter.org/NPA557_Cuban_Health_Care.html
http://www.canf.org/Issues/medicalapartheid.htmI've seen that 7/8 number in the past. I've also read that number is inflated due to unhealthy mexican mother running across the border trying to have anchor babies. Many aren't even born in hospitals. Dig up how many citizen born children per 1000 there are and then you'll have a number you can compare to.
Best in "Latin" America, I like how you have to qualify that statement, and go on and say that it's in many ways better than the US. I can say in many ways Nazi germany was better at population control than the rest of europe, that still doesn't make it better.
So you've convienced me, we can all expect to go to the lowest common denominator, and expect life to be like cuba.
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Re:Offer them free I2/NLR connectivity!
I come up with this stuff from several sources. Like articles and websites advertising such services.
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Re:Bandwidth and freedomKeeping Cuba locked down is critical to our ideological bullshit. Maintaining the embargo encourages others to do so, which depresses Cuba and causes them to be less successful, which we get to blame on ideology and use as a reason why we must go on a holy war to spread Democracy throughout the world (perhaps we should start here first, eh?) Is the US the only country in the world that trades. The US is ONE country. Are you saying that the US is so powerful that if we don't trade with you, your economy has no chance to do well, even if ALL THE OTHER COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD will trade with you? Hell, they can even buy American goods through third party countries if they so desired. In other words, maybe, just maybe, it really is their ideological bullshit that causes them to fail because it sure as shit ain't the US embargo. Unless, of course, you buy into Castro's bullshit. We don't actually want Democracy in Cuba, or we WOULD HAVE opened up to them. The real issue is that our government fears free speech. That may have worked in 1969. Now-a-days, it's too little too late. First, the candidate that will claim to do it will piss off all those Cubans in Florida, causing that candidate to lose Florida. No candidate wants to do that. So if you want to blame anyone for the embargo, blame the CUBANS in Florida. Next, it wouldn't matter. If trading with Canada, and Brazil, and Venezuela and every other country on earth hasn't helped Cuba, trading with the US wouldn't either! Cubans can actually get health care... And they get what they pay for... well, unless they are an affluent party member
or good friends with one, of course. Sorry, but regardless of what Michael Moore tells you, health care in Cuba is dismal. -
Re:Superiority of the Free Market.
Turns out for some things regulation is better - look at how a poor country like Cuba has better healthcare (with lower infant mortality rates) than the wealthy US.
"Recently released statistics on the infant mortality rate in the Western hemisphere yielded an odd conclusions -- Cuba's infant mortality rate, 6.0 per 1,000, is now lower than the U.S. infant mortality rate, at 7.2 per 1,000. Given Cuba's poverty level, its 6.0 rate is very impressive, but is it accurate to say that Cuba now has an infant mortality rate lower than the United States? No."
Cuba vs. the United States on Infant Mortality
Summary: The U.S. counts premature births as a live birth. Cuba, and most European countries, counts a premature birth and death as a fetal mortality, and doesn't add it to their statistics.
See also Health Care in Cuba: Myth Versus Reality. -
Re:Whoa
You may wish to read up on the Cuban Missile Crisis.
What's the point of being 100% literate if what you read is censored?
A nice quote on Cuba: David Carr: "Who, in their right minds, would want to risk being eaten by sharks in order to get away from first-class health-care and education?"
Great healthcare? A myth really. -
Re:Cuba listening station bull puckey
You know, it occured to me that the TV stations in question are broadcast from the United States, and that this jamming has happened at the exact same time that there has been major unrest in Iran by people revolting against the theocracy there. The US does not approve of the Iranian theocracy; remember the "axis of evil" speech? That the jamming happened when it did seems to indicate that it was intentional, and was to the benefit of our enemies. That you therefore conclude that it was done by the US says a lot more about you than it does the US.
I would instead direct your attention here, and here. If Iran and Cuba have been working together, this suggests that the Cuban government really was the source of the jamming. If you feel sympathies towards the Cuban government such that you're unwilling to believe that they'd support the Mullahs, I suggest you reconsider them.