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Cuba — after four decades under a U.S. economic blockade — continues to offer free health care
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Cuba's health care system depends on foreign charity to function.
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Castro noted that many of the more than 1,000 attending economists from 50 countries — including some from the United States — had sharply criticized globalization and the "neoliberal" economic policies of industrialized nations.
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Ever take an Economics course? Economists have a god complex. I've noticed it in every economic model I've ever seen.
I wonder what the political leanings of these economists are. Do you think their attendance at a Castro speech might give us a clue?
BTW I'm no fan of globalization, but I'm not for socialism either.
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He lauded U.S. Nobel Prize-winning economist Daniel L. McFadden's "keen observations" — among them that the United States, with a fiscal deficit of more than $520 billion, is managing its economy like a "banana republic."
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I don't like the deficit either, but as deficits go, it isn't that bad. It's something like 2% of GDP. Easily manageable.
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"This economy is hanging by a thread," Castro said.
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This is such a stupid statement that I hesitated to address it. Yes, our economy is just horrible. That's why Castro's citizens are willing to take their life in their hands by floating 90 miles through shark infested waters on inner tubes.
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At one point — after offering his audience coffee to avoid falling asleep
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I wouldn't have had this problem, I'd have been laughing too hard.
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U.S. officials talk about a transition, "but how would they make this transition?" Castro asked Saturday, suggesting that "the only way is to proceed with an illegal assassination using the scores of techniques they have available."
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No, we wait for you to die. It doesn't have to happen in the next 4 years, because this commision will live on even if a democrat wins the presidency in 04 or 08. The democrats will follow the same plan because they will need to kiss the asses of Cuban voters in Florida, just like the republicans are doing.
This one is slightly out of sequence, oops.
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Castro also lashed out at the "foolishness" of the U.S. economic blockade that has been in place since the presidency of John F. Kennedy, saying it hadn't stopped Cuba from surpassing the United States in many areas.
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Cuba hasn't surpassed the USA in anything but tobacco quality, but I agree the blockade is foolishness. This is how we treat little pipsqueek commies, but if you're a big dangerous commie, like China, we give you full free trade status and access to our market. I'd like to see some consistancy on this.