Five senators head for Cuba.
Newsbot @ Sat Jan 12, 2008 4:41 pm
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<strong>Posted By: </strong> <a href="/modules.php?name=Your_Account&op=userinfo&username=ridenrain" target="_blank">ridenrain</a>
<strong>Date: </strong> 2008-01-13 11:22:57
<strong>Canadian</strong>
ridenrain @ Sat Jan 12, 2008 4:41 pm
"at the invitation of the Cuban ambassador to Canada, Ernesto Antonio Senti, but Canadian taxpayers are picking up the tab."
make them pay it back.
a1frenchy @ Sun Jan 13, 2008 12:53 pm
mtbr @ Sun Jan 13, 2008 12:56 pm
I'm sure they will be working hard while on vacation.
a1frenchy @ Sun Jan 13, 2008 12:58 pm
Well at least they've gone to the Cubans who as we know have the best national health care system in the world. Fidel Castro is not perfect, none of us are but when it comes to taking care of his people He's got our BOZOS beat all to hell.
ziggy @ Sun Jan 13, 2008 1:20 pm
a1frenchy a1frenchy:
Well at least they've gone to the Cubans who as we know have the best national health care system in the world. Fidel Castro is not perfect, none of us are but when it comes to taking care of his people He's got our BOZOS beat all to hell.
Riiiight
$1:
Every single time the island of Cuba and fidel castro's revolution are covered anywhere in the media one of the points always mentioned is Cuba's free healthcare. You can practically time it. If it's in print, you get the lead issue in the first and second paragraph, a mention of fidel castro or one of his cronies in the third paragraph and then the plug for the lauded free healthcare available to Cubans in the fourth. I dont think Ive ever read an article about castro or Cuba where the "healthcare" isnt mentioned.
Every single castro supporter clings to this healthcare thing like it is some kind of holy grail. In a debate, the fact that Cuba has the most political prisoners in the world is ignored. The fact that Cubans on the island lack even the most basic of necessities is ignored. Tourism apartheid is ignored. Everything is ignored save for the free healthcare and 100% literacy.
Of course, none of these Free healthcare! cheerleaders have ever been to a Cuban hospital. They've never been to a Cuban clinic. Hospitals and clinics serving the average Cuban, that is.
Every single castro supporter clings to this healthcare thing like it is some kind of holy grail. In a debate, the fact that Cuba has the most political prisoners in the world is ignored. The fact that Cubans on the island lack even the most basic of necessities is ignored. Tourism apartheid is ignored. Everything is ignored save for the free healthcare and 100% literacy.
Of course, none of these Free healthcare! cheerleaders have ever been to a Cuban hospital. They've never been to a Cuban clinic. Hospitals and clinics serving the average Cuban, that is.
The myth about Cuba's health care.Cuba's health care myth
ryan29 @ Sun Jan 13, 2008 2:39 pm
i say they can just stay there if they want , what have they done here anyways .
Wada @ Sun Jan 13, 2008 3:07 pm
and it certainly would not hurt to take a look at their agricultural practices either. It would seem the senators are finally doing something and the the Cons are all like," what the hell?"
sasquatch2 @ Sun Jan 13, 2008 3:21 pm
I will bet the farm they will not visit Pine Island....or inspect it's health facilities.
ziggy @ Sun Jan 13, 2008 4:25 pm
lily lily:
$1:
"This one I feel is important to Canada," Keon said, adding Cuba's excellent record of maternal and infant survival in the context of its underfunded health-care system is worth studying.
I can't really find fault with that.
You got any of their stats for that? Make sure it's after abortions as I think the state pays for it and there is a very high rate.If they have such a good system their mortality rates should be available on the net.
ridenrain @ Sun Jan 13, 2008 11:46 pm
sasquatch2 sasquatch2:
I will bet the farm they will not visit Pine Island....or inspect it's health facilities.
I'm not finding anything interesting there. Please tell me more about this place.
Lily: You're a pathetic apologist. Those senators and their hanges-on will find nothing except a suntan, and whatever report they publish would be useless. Ziggy's point is dead on, as usual.