here we are, the richest country on earth, with a "free" market that has to pressure seniors to enroll in a prescription drug plan by threatening to penalize them EVERY MONTH FOR THE REST OF THEIR LIVES if they miss the sign-up deadline, while cuba—CUBA!—with 8%—one twelfth!—of our per capita GDP, gives free health care to everybody. not only that, but cubans get free education all the way thru grad school or med school, if they can get in.*
how embarrassing!
* their infant mortality rate is lower than ours, their life expectancy and literacy almost the same as ours.
2 hours ago
We don't need no education - we have Ipods and Toyotas and X boxes and McDonald's. We have big TV's and huge trucks and bluetooth phones and American Idol and the Superbowl.
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yea! hooray!
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This despite the 50 year economic blockade of the tiny island by the most powerful nation on earth. I wonder how the neocon model in Haiti stacks up.
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