D. Long - You made a reference to my post which was quite misleading, and I don't like to be misrepresented. You wrote:
>>Its a curious thing that all "people's paradises" have ended up having to have armed men and barbed wire to keep people in. Its also terribly curious why people living in "people's paradises" are always risking their lives to escape to capitalist countries. Some people just want to be exploited, I suppose.<<
Someone without the time to go back and read all the posts would probably be misled. My reference to a "people's paradise" was a reference to someone else's post a day or two ago where he/she stated that without Castro, Cuba would be a people's paradise. I commented that no one (not even some of the unquestionable authorities amongst us) has any way of knowing, 40 years later, what Cuba would be like had they not overthrown Batista. I am not in any way a great admirer of Castro, but I do have to say that Cuba was NOT a people's paradise under Batista, which the poster - in a roundabout way - implied.
"Some people just want to be exploited, I suppose." ???? Perhaps, Mr. Long, you are not too old for remedial reading?
I am making no political point, just trying for accuracy.
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