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<blockquote data-quote="Sammie" data-source="post: 232403" data-attributes="member: 8657"><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Michael Moore, the entertainer, the self promoter, the biased truth spinner who exaggerates and takes things out of context. Just one more form of shock entertainment. </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">In the film “Sicko”, Moore, with his vast medical training, takes Ground Zero responders to Cuba for medical treatment to prove that Castro's socialized medicine is such an enormous step up from our own health care. And you can bet Castro and Bro let Moore in on a very well balanced cross-section of his dysfunctional nation. Castro. Who had the escaping Cuban tugboat “13 De Marzo” sunk in July of 1994, drowning 41 innocent men and women and 12 kids. Cuba. Whose citizens are so thrilled with their own health care that they make rafts out of sugar cane and take their chances with sharks and hurricanes to escape. Who convert old Buicks and Mercury’s into boats in desperate attempts to flee the hellhole. Cuba. Where food is rationed according to age. Where milk is given only to the elderly and children up to the age of seven years. Cuba. Where, because food is so scarce, malnutrition and blindness are rampant. In an attempt to feed their families, thousands of Cubans are considered “criminals" and imprisoned for breaking the law when they kill their own pigs, cattle and horses. </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">I have a friend who escaped from Cuba in 1973 and wouldn’t make it out alive </span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">if she went back to visit. And at a dollar a minute when she calls home, nobody can</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"> say much because the lines are tapped. </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">A true story about a UPS mgr who took his wife to Cuba on vaca a couple of years back - Cheap vacation. Where he got sick and ended up in a hospital (a real filth hole) and found that, among other things, if he wanted clean linens, towels and a hospital gown, somebody had to takes them home, wash them and bring them back.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">So, so much for all the non-Americans who come to our hospitals for treatments that aren’t available with socialized medicine (but which Moore hopes we can emulate!!!) Check out the guy with TB who freaked the whole nation out when he fled Italy (whose socialized medicine who couldn’t treat him) and came to Denver for privatized care.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">I can’t wait for MORE “ M..M. Hot Air” where we will once again learn what a failure we are as a people and a nation. </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">After all, you do remember the last time a boatful of starving, rag clad Americans fought their way the island of Cuba and begged for sanctuary, don’t you?</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sammie, post: 232403, member: 8657"] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]Michael Moore, the entertainer, the self promoter, the biased truth spinner who exaggerates and takes things out of context. Just one more form of shock entertainment. [/FONT][/SIZE] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]In the film “Sicko”, Moore, with his vast medical training, takes Ground Zero responders to Cuba for medical treatment to prove that Castro's socialized medicine is such an enormous step up from our own health care. And you can bet Castro and Bro let Moore in on a very well balanced cross-section of his dysfunctional nation. Castro. Who had the escaping Cuban tugboat “13 De Marzo” sunk in July of 1994, drowning 41 innocent men and women and 12 kids. Cuba. Whose citizens are so thrilled with their own health care that they make rafts out of sugar cane and take their chances with sharks and hurricanes to escape. Who convert old Buicks and Mercury’s into boats in desperate attempts to flee the hellhole. Cuba. Where food is rationed according to age. Where milk is given only to the elderly and children up to the age of seven years. Cuba. Where, because food is so scarce, malnutrition and blindness are rampant. In an attempt to feed their families, thousands of Cubans are considered “criminals" and imprisoned for breaking the law when they kill their own pigs, cattle and horses. [/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]I have a friend who escaped from Cuba in 1973 and wouldn’t make it out alive [/FONT][/SIZE][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]if she went back to visit. And at a dollar a minute when she calls home, nobody can[/FONT][/SIZE][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3] say much because the lines are tapped. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]A true story about a UPS mgr who took his wife to Cuba on vaca a couple of years back - Cheap vacation. Where he got sick and ended up in a hospital (a real filth hole) and found that, among other things, if he wanted clean linens, towels and a hospital gown, somebody had to takes them home, wash them and bring them back.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]So, so much for all the non-Americans who come to our hospitals for treatments that aren’t available with socialized medicine (but which Moore hopes we can emulate!!!) Check out the guy with TB who freaked the whole nation out when he fled Italy (whose socialized medicine who couldn’t treat him) and came to Denver for privatized care.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]I can’t wait for MORE “ M..M. Hot Air” where we will once again learn what a failure we are as a people and a nation. [/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]After all, you do remember the last time a boatful of starving, rag clad Americans fought their way the island of Cuba and begged for sanctuary, don’t you?[/FONT][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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