This Is Why You Can’t Trust The Government

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This Is Why You Can’t Trust The Government

Post by snafu » Mon Dec 26, 2016 5:23 am

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This Is Why You Can’t Trust The Government

Fidel Castro died this past week. This was a huge blow to those of a left-leaning persuasion, and you may have heard from so many media outlets that progressive “news” casters and politicians were falling all over themselves to talk about all of the wonderful things that Castro did for the Cuban people, about how he took care of them and was such a decent and upstanding guy.

Just like they want for us.

Well, maybe we should look into their claims a bit more. Castro-lovers claim that Castro provided great education for the Cuban people and imply that they are so well educated because of Castro’s rule. That sounds great. However, Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Hans Bader says,


Cuba had about the same literacy rate as Costa Rica and Chile in 1950 (close to 80 percent). And it has almost the same literacy rate as they do today (close to 100 percent).

[…]

Meanwhile, Latin American countries that were largely illiterate in 1950 — such as Peru, Brazil, El Salvador, and the Dominican Republic — are largely literate today, closing much of the gap with Cuba. El Salvador had a less than 40 percent literacy rate in 1950, but has an 88 percent literacy rate today. Brazil and Peru had a less than 50 percent literacy rate in 1950, but today, Peru has a 94.5 percent literacy rate, and Brazil a 92.6 percent literacy rate. The Dominican Republic’s rate rose from a little over 40 percent to 91.8 percent. While Cuba made substantial progress in reducing illiteracy in Castro’s first years in power, its educational system has stagnated since, even as much of Latin America improved. (hat tip to here
http://www.prisonplanet.com/stop-praisi ... ances.html
for the source)

In other words, Castro managed to not make much difference in the education level of Cubans while the rest of Latin America made huge progress, albeit without Castro’s influence (imagine that!).

Then, let’s take healthcare: leftists like to rave about how Cuban’s have universal healthcare, which is sort-of true, but they don’t give you more details about it. What is it really like? National Review’s Jay Nordlinger gives us details:
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/stop- ... le/2608334


The foreigners-only facilities do a big business in what you might call vanity treatments: Botox, liposuction, and breast implants. Remember, too, that there are many separate, or segregated, facilities on Cuba. People speak of “tourism apartheid.” For example, there are separate hotels, separate beaches, separate restaurants — separate everything. As you can well imagine, this causes widespread resentment in the general population. The second health-care system is for Cuban elites — the Party, the military, official artists and writers, and so on. In the Soviet Union, these people were called the “nomenklatura.”

And their system, like the one for medical tourists, is top-notch. Then there is the real Cuban system, the one that ordinary people must use — and it is wretched. Testimony and documentation on the subject are vast. Hospitals and clinics are crumbling. Conditions are so unsanitary, patients may be better off at home, whatever home is. If they do have to go to the hospital, they must bring their own bedsheets, soap, towels, food, light bulbs — even toilet paper. And basic medications are scarce. In Sicko, even sophisticated medications are plentiful and cheap. In the real Cuba, finding an aspirin can be a chore. And an antibiotic will fetch a fortune on the black market.

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The equipment that doctors have to work with is either antiquated or nonexistent. Doctors have been known to reuse latex gloves — there is no choice. When they travel to the island, on errands of mercy, American doctors make sure to take as much equipment and as many supplies as they can carry. One told the Associated Press, “The [Cuban] doctors are pretty well trained, but they have nothing to work with. It’s like operating with knives and spoons.”

So, if you are a medical tourist or party leader, the healthcare is great. For everyone else, not so great. And this is the healthcare that progressives want for you and me.

And why would they want that for us? Because it’s very profitable. Castro claimed to live on $25 a month, but the truth,
http://www.prisonplanet.com/120-million ... alore.html
according to the Daily Mail is that Castro was:


A prodigious womaniser and food connoisseur who kept some 20 luxurious properties throughout the Caribbean — including a private island he used to visit on his beautiful yacht — Castro was a complete fraud.

The man who spent his life railing against the excesses of capitalism lived like a king — and a very debauched one at that.

Sound like other progressives that we’ve seen in politics and the mainstream media? It should because it’s very much like that. Basically, progressives are fleecing people for personal profit.

What should you do? Take responsibility for your own education. Learn to manage your own health and look for healthcare options that you can implement on your own. And take back your personal initiative, personal power, and your money. Governments have shown repeatedly through history that they will only abuse those things, and the truth about Castro shows it again.

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