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Originally Posted by filtherton
I hate to tell you this, but milk is not essential to a healthy existence. Even so, america rations health care, which do you think is more important? I would imagine that wages matter less than overall quality of life. Do you have any information about the quality of life of the average cuban citizen?
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Well, I do know that Cubans do routinely flee their home country on rickety boats and inner tubes. Haven't heard a whole lot about Americans doing that, unless you count the so-called "Americans" who supposedly fled to Canada after the 2004 election...
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I'd be interested in where you get the idea that cuban children belong to the government.
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Isn't that in their Constitution?
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As a more general question to whomever cares to answer, i also wonder why cuba gets such a bad rap, while china, no stranger to communism and civil rights abuses gets most favored nation trade status?
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I can't speak for everyone, but I'm no fan of China, which is why I was so pissed when Clinton gave them the missile technology...
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Welcome to america... where every college educated two-breadwinner middle class family living the american dream is one serious health problem away from poverty. Thanks free market for keeping in tune with that great american ideal--"Every person has the opportunity, through hard work and perseverance, to achieve whatever they want, unless someone in their immediate family happens to come down with a serious illness, in which case they're fucked".
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I've known a fair number of lower middle class people who had health problems, and didn't end up destitute. An example of this is a friend's father, who had quadruple heart bypass surgery. He's fine, and they're not broke. Of course, they didn't go to college, maybe that's why they're OK.