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host · 05-30-2005, 11:53 PM

It may interest other readers to know that the CIA, in it's "World Factbook" stats regarding Cuba display a yearly average per capita income of (in U.S. dollars) of $3,000 per year. This is equivalent to $250.00 per month.
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/...k/geos/cu.html

If there is wide spread rationing of milk in Cuba, it is not affecting mortality rates. The median age in Cuba is 35.36 years, and 36.27 years in the U.S., yet the mortality rate in Cuba is 14% lower than in the U.S., 7.19 deaths per thousand in Cuba, vs. 8.25 deaths in the U.S.

Milk rationing is not affecting infant moratlity rates either, with the overall rate in Cuba of 6.33 deaths per thousand live births, vs. 6.50 deaths in the U.S., especially considering that the average per capita income in the U.S. is $40,100
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/...k/geos/us.html

The Castro government, with so little economic wealth, appears to be managing a medical miracle, compared not only to U.S. moratlity statistics, but also to the two countries that occupy a neighboring island, Dominican Republic with an infant mortality rate of 32.28 deaths per thousand live births, and the infant mortality rate in Haiti of 73.45 deaths per thousand live births.

Maybe if children in Haiti and Dominican Republic "belong to the government", they would be more likely to at least survive into early chidlhood. They seem to die in great numbers without ever knowing that they are not residing under a communist economic system/government. Or is there an argument that they "are better dead than red"? The U.S. military killed a couple of million Vietnamese before that argument was determined by U.S. political leaders to not be worth what it was costing in blood, money, morale, political capital, and in U.S. international standing.

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host Banned	It may interest other readers to know that the CIA, in it's "World Factbook" stats regarding Cuba display a yearly average per capita income of (in U.S. dollars) of $3,000 per year. This is equivalent to $250.00 per month. http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/...k/geos/cu.html If there is wide spread rationing of milk in Cuba, it is not affecting mortality rates. The median age in Cuba is 35.36 years, and 36.27 years in the U.S., yet the mortality rate in Cuba is 14% lower than in the U.S., 7.19 deaths per thousand in Cuba, vs. 8.25 deaths in the U.S. Milk rationing is not affecting infant moratlity rates either, with the overall rate in Cuba of 6.33 deaths per thousand live births, vs. 6.50 deaths in the U.S., especially considering that the average per capita income in the U.S. is $40,100 http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/...k/geos/us.html The Castro government, with so little economic wealth, appears to be managing a medical miracle, compared not only to U.S. moratlity statistics, but also to the two countries that occupy a neighboring island, Dominican Republic with an infant mortality rate of 32.28 deaths per thousand live births, and the infant mortality rate in Haiti of 73.45 deaths per thousand live births. Maybe if children in Haiti and Dominican Republic "belong to the government", they would be more likely to at least survive into early chidlhood. They seem to die in great numbers without ever knowing that they are not residing under a communist economic system/government. Or is there an argument that they "are better dead than red"? The U.S. military killed a couple of million Vietnamese before that argument was determined by U.S. political leaders to not be worth what it was costing in blood, money, morale, political capital, and in U.S. international standing. Last edited by host; 05-31-2005 at 12:33 AM..