Palin: "I see Fidel Castro likes Obamacare, and we don't. Doesn't that tell you something?"

[jefferson_dem]

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2010/04/03/quote_of_the_day.html#ixzz0k2UwP9BM

[CTyankee]

1. Yeah, Sarah, it tells me you are an idiot...next question?

[jefferson_dem]

2. Ha!

Burn.

[rpannier]

4. Curse you CTYankee

You beat me to it.

[andlor]

6. +1

[rurallib]

3. My hopey-changey thing is going good, Sarah. How's that quitty-twirtty

thing going for you.

[TheCowsCameHome]

5. I'll bet she knows first-hand all about Castro beds and sofas.

Other that that, she knows nothing .

[flpoljunkie]

7. Actually, Castro chided the U.S. for taking so long to provide healthcare for it's people

Sarah Palin, like most Republicans, never let the facts get in the way of a good lie.

[pinto]

8. Mmm, Obama's a foreign born Communist revolutionary usurper! Got it.

Dang, thanks for clearing that up, Sarah.

:eyes:

[Captain Hilts]

9. What a complete shit-for-brains she is. Does she realize her entire state is on welfare? nt

[tanyev]

10. OMG! Next thing you know, Obama's going to force all Americans to wear Castro hats!

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_uSNpfk4dbL4/SyFFSVQDisI/AAAAAAAAA14/rrjiXR6eEdI/s400/Sarah+Palin+Close+Up+book+Signing+with+Hat+Fairfax+Virginia.jpg

[Dr Morbius]

11. Yeah, ya moron.

It tells me you're worse than Fidel Castro.

Do us a favor, keep talking about it. Please.

[Papagoose]

12. I pride myself on not hating anyone

but this moronic jackass is making it extremely difficult.

[Golden Raisin]

13. "We" meaning the "Real Americans".

I bet she can also see Cuba from her front porch.

[Jakes Progress]

14. Tells me you have no soul, no morality, no reason to exist.

[DrToast]

17. +1

[HughMoran]

15. Was waiting for this obvious moronic statement from some right-wing moron

Predictable as rain. I hate these people.

[90-percent]

16. Here's what it tells me, Sarah

It tells me Fidel Castro has more compassion for his fellow human beings than you do, you fucking quitter!

-90% Jimmy

[geckosfeet]

18. I see that the rest of the world approves of Obamacare - and the teabaggers don't

That tells me a lot.

God I hate her.

[Mika]

19. We wish we could do health care like Cuba does. example....

Before the 1959 revolution

75% of rural dwellings were huts made from palm trees.

More than 50% had no toilets of any kind.

85% had no inside running water.

91% had no electricity.

There was only 1 doctor per 2,000 people in rural areas.

More than one-third of the rural population had intestinal parasites.

Only 4% of Cuban peasants ate meat regularly; only 1% ate fish, less than 2% eggs, 3% bread, 11% milk; none ate green vegetables.

The average annual income among peasants was $91 (1956), less than 1/3 of the national income per person.

45% of the rural population was illiterate; 44% had never attended a school.

25% of the labor force was chronically unemployed.

1 million people were illiterate ( in a population of about 5.5 million).

27% of urban children, not to speak of 61% of rural children, were not attending school.

Racial discrimination was widespread.

The public school system had deteriorated badly.

Corruption was endemic; anyone could be bought, from a Supreme Court judge to a cop.

Police brutality and torture were common.

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After the 1959 revolution
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/43b/185.html

“It is in some sense almost an anti-model,” according to Eric Swanson, the programme manager for the Bank’s Development Data Group, which compiled the WDI, a tome of almost 400 pages covering scores of economic, social, and environmental indicators.

Indeed, Cuba is living proof in many ways that the Bank’s dictum that economic growth is a pre-condition for improving the lives of the poor is over-stated, if not, downright wrong.

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It has reduced its infant mortality rate from 11 per 1,000 births in 1990 to seven in 1999, which places it firmly in the ranks of the western industrialised nations. It now stands at six, according to Jo Ritzen, the Bank’s Vice President for Development Policy, who visited Cuba privately several months ago to see for himself.

By comparison, the infant mortality rate for Argentina stood at 18 in 1999;

Chile’s was down to ten; and Costa Rica, at 12. For the entire Latin American and Caribbean region as a whole, the average was 30 in 1999.

Similarly, the mortality rate for children under the age of five in Cuba has fallen from 13 to eight per thousand over the decade. That figure is 50% lower than the rate in Chile, the Latin American country closest to Cuba’s achievement. For the region as a whole, the average was 38 in 1999.

“Six for every 1,000 in infant mortality - the same level as Spain - is just unbelievable,” according to Ritzen, a former education minister in the Netherlands. “You observe it, and so you see that Cuba has done exceedingly well in the human development area.”

Indeed, in Ritzen’s own field, the figures tell much the same story. Net primary enrolment for both girls and boys reached 100% in 1997, up from 92% in 1990. That was as high as most developed nations - higher even than the US rate and well above 80-90% rates achieved by the most advanced Latin American countries.

“Even in education performance, Cuba’s is very much in tune with the developed world, and much higher than schools in, say, Argentina, Brazil, or Chile.”

It is no wonder, in some ways. Public spending on education in Cuba amounts to about 6.7% of gross national income, twice the proportion in other Latin American and Caribbean countries and even Singapore.

There were 12 primary school pupils for every Cuban teacher in 1997, a ratio that ranked with Sweden, rather than any other developing country. The Latin American and East Asian average was twice as high at 25 to one.

The average youth (age 15-24) illiteracy rate in Latin America and the Caribbean stands at 7%. In Cuba, the rate is zero. In Latin America, where the average is 7%, only Uruguay approaches that achievement, with one percent youth illiteracy.

“Cuba managed to reduce illiteracy from 40% to zero within ten years,” said Ritzen. “If Cuba shows that it is possible, it shifts the burden of proof to those who say it’s not possible.”

Similarly, Cuba devoted 9.1% of its gross domestic product (GDP) during the 1990s to health care, roughly equivalent to Canada’s rate. Its ratio of 5.3 doctors per 1,000 people was the highest in the world.

The question that these statistics pose, of course, is whether the Cuban experience can be replicated. The answer given here is probably not.

“What does it, is the incredible dedication,” according to Wayne Smith, who was head of the US Interests Section in Havana in the late 1970s and early 1980s and has travelled to the island many times since.

No one can say with any credibility that universal education and universal health care needs to be forced on any population.

Castro didn't give it to them either.

Together, nearly all Cubans worked hard to create the infrastructure and systems that they felt were essential for any progressive system.

The Cuban people wanted universal health care for all Cubans, and they have it. They pushed for government that represented their ideals, and organized and formed infrastructure that enabled Cubans to create a fair and complete h-c system.

The people of Cuba wanted universal education for all Cubans, and they have it. They pushed for government that represented their ideals, organized and formed infrastructure that enabled Cubans to create a complete and world class ed system, and they have it.

Cubans want to assist the world's poor with doctors and educators, instead of gun ship diplomacy.. and that is what they have done WITH their government, not at odds with their government.

Can Americans make this claim about their own country? I'm afraid not.


Cubans want normalization between the US and Cuba, and they have thrown their doors open to us, but, it is our US government that prevents what the majority of Americans want their government to do - normalize relations. Worse yet, the US government forbids and has criminalized travel to Cuba by (non Cuban-)Americans - something that Cuba hasn't done.



Viva Cuba!

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[BlueMTexpat]

31. Thanks for the informed post. nt

[polly7]

20. Yes, that his brain holds more than maggot droppings? nt.

Eta, that was bad ........... maybe more than rocks? I love how she tries to use people she hates one moment and seems to find super-intelligent the next. It's a good sign she has no real opinion or knowledge of her own.

[Phx_Dem]

21. Yes. It tells me Castro is smarter than you.

Dumbfuck.
:eyes:

[yellowcanine]

26. Heh, that was my first thought also.

[Arkana]

22. Yeah, Sarah, you fucking retarded waste of flesh--it tells me

that Fidel Castro has more compassion for his fellow man than you do, you lousy piece of shit.

[and-justice-for-all]

23. "We" as in the neaderthals of America...

"don't like Obamacare". What ever the hell Obama care is.

[IndianaGreen]

24. Cuba has universal health care, like the UK's NHS

In America the closest system to that are the Veterans Administration hospitals.

[polichick]

25. Yeah Psycho Sarah, it tells me you're an idiot. nt

[Bleacher Creature]

27. Doesn't he also like baseball? And if so, does that mean I can't?

Is this really the best the GOP has right now?

[Blue_Tires]

38. baseball also endorses the socialisms because of the most powerful union in the world

:sarcasm:

[craigmatic]

28. There she goes again just making things up. n/t

[LLStarks]

29. Another day, another logical fallacy from Palin. nt

[political_Dem]

30. Caribou Barbie's Statement tells me what a souless waste of space this cold-hearted dullard is.

She shouldn't even have a platform to speak on after all the violence, hatred and wrongdoing her big piehole has released.

Go screw yourself, you piece of moose dung. We knew who you were when you stood in front of that turkey slaughterhouse and kept on flapping your botoxed lips as if nothing was happening.

[RollWithIt]

32. Tells me a murderous dictator likes our health care.... nt

[saltpoint]

33. Castro forbade casinos and we don't. Does that tell us something?

Maybe it does and maybe it doesn't.

Palin is doing the Republican / FOX News thing, trotting out the near-death Fidel Castro to stir up the donor base. But I don't think her fear-mongering would get her very far in any debate with Barack Obama.

Of course, Palin operates and speaks in a zone where actual facts are non-existent and unimportant, thus rarely used. And where she is free to establish any context she wants, not only context that may be based on false premises but ESPECIALLY if it's based on false premises. The folks who are looking to Palin to lead them out of frustration are IMO in for a very significant disappointment. She's a quitter and she's an idiot.

[tomas no mas]

34. Cuba is tied with us, approximately, in health care quality

Palin is not very bright.

[sakabatou]

35. I'm surprised her pants haven't exploded

[rocktivity]

36. Rocktivity: "I see that nobody sane like Sarah Palin. Shouldn't that tell HER something?"

:eyes:
rocktivity

[Sheepshank]

37. well, in the interest of fairness

I see that you are a caucasian brunette and as it turns out, Adolph Hitler is a caucasian brutnette, as was Benito Mussolini, Joseph Stalin, Czar Nicholas II, Napoleon Bonaparte, Vladimir Lenin, David Berkowitz, Lizzie Borden, Ted Bundy, and the list goes on and on...coincidence? I think not!!!

[angee_is_mad]

39. seems she is still running scared

from that liberal media.

Closest they can get to her dumb ass is in the stands and yet they still keep giving her press.Guess train wrecks always make interesting stories.

[krispos42]

40. Castro would also love Palin to be POTUS

I can't think of a faster way to destroy capitalism and neither can he.


I'm sure Fidel also loves candy, puppies, kittens, and pizza. Big whup.

[SwampG8r]

41. you guys sure she wasn't governor of Krypton

cause she can see russia and cuba from her house!!!