GOP and the City Comments
I thought here in California we had a lock on the looney left hate-america first liberals. This Charles "Barron-head" Barron is quit frankly an embarassment, both to America and to the idiot voters that toss him their vote.
I wonder if he's ever seen the news about all the Cuban immigrants that use whatever means they can find to get into Florida. Not to mention the fact that southern FL has quite a hefty percentage of Cubans living there. But I guess that news just doesn't make it to NY or something...
I thought Castro's biggest export were his own people. I think Barron should construct a boat from a washing machine and head on down to Cuba if he thinks it's so wonderful there. I'm sick of hearing these hypocrites praise Castro but continue to live here. Plus this mope is an elected official. I thought we had it bad here in IL with Sen. Dick Durbin. I'll donate the washing machine.
I am not surprised at all at his comments; after all, there are other New York members of Congress who unabashedly praise Castro. I can think of those two Puerto Ricans members of Congress who are from N.Y. What's new about people who adore Satan?
As I know I am in enemy territory, I jus tthought I'd drop a couple actualk facts that are common misconceptions about Cuba.
1) There are nearly twice as many rafters from the much smaller and further away island of Hispanola (Haiti and Dominican Rep.) caught each year by the Coast Guard than Cubans.. which is just 90 miles with the current at your back. There have even been more Ecuadorians caught at sea since 2000 than Cubans. We are misinformed because nearly every Cuban that makes it gets a place on the evening news. Plus did you know Cubans are the only people granted near-automatic citizenship (plus housing, job and English assistance). Not a bad deal that has ther desired effect of making Castro look bad.
2) Cuba does have over 35,000 doctors working abroad, providing health care in the most remote and impoverished areas of the world. 90% of Haitians receive Cuban health care, for example. Cuba also trains 20,000 foreign students to become doctors free of charge as long as they promise to help the poor.
3) Cuba has the 2nd best human development indicators in the world based on their GDP in the world. They have no homelessness, 100% literacy and a lower infant mortality rate than found in our urban and rural areas.
4) The so-called political prisoners in Cuba number only about 60-100 (according to Amnesty). However all of those were ofund guilty of taking US Government money, materials, assistance or direction. This is a government that has had a war against Cuba for 46 years - and just appointed a "transition" official. Similarly, we have a woman in jail for simply taking a letter from Iraqi officials to her cousin in the Defense Dept. We also have 5 Cubans in jail in Miami for trying to root out terrorism against their homeland.
Those five Cuban scumbags didn't get sentenced long enough. Those five dirtbags married into the Cuban-American community, told innocent women they were dissidents, lied through their teeth, then told castro all about what it was like to sleep with them. Talk about invasion of privacy. Those dirtbags need something much worse than jailtime for that. Like some scissors. How'd you like to be married to some rightwing person whom you marry because she tells you she is leftwing, and then find out she's sharing all your secrets with your worst rightwing enemy? Would you like that?
Two points, one, Matt Glesne is apparently retarded, Cuban "healthcare training" probably invlolves brief instruction on what a band-aid is and then another lecutre on the prescription of revolutionary drugs such as Tylenol. Number two, though I've yet to read much on the 5 Cubans jailed in Miami, if they were spying on anit-Castro Cubans in the U.S. they should be sent back to Cuba, via Gitmo for performing espionage in the U.S.
"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support the constitution of the United States, and the constitution of the State of New York, and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of __________, according to the best of my ability."
This is why people like Barron get my hackles up, they are elected, they take this oath to support the constitution and then use their political position to push their communist beliefs.
And to Mr. Gresne, I am dubious of your data. You're saying the folks in Cuba can read but can they speak...freely? And if we have it all wrong about Cuba, why is it that more Cubans are rafting to come to the US than there are US citizens fleeing to Cuba?
Sorry this got so long folks, I'm a little peeved.
Oh, the wonderful social systems of Cuba! How sweet. Saddam also had a great program for reducing unemployment.
Castro is also a leader in AIDS prevention. 0 cases. Mandatory testing. Immediate quarantine. Zero tolerance. What a guy! Imagine trying that in America... Would the Left embrace these impositions on civil liberties here? Or do they just like to see an island work social experiments on the dime of foreign aid? You think Cuba is self-sustaining?
It seems that Cuba also exports Cubans trying to flee Castro.
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