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To: Thomas M. who wrote (2358)	9/28/2002 1:49:56 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 6945

rich people in America don't build castles while poor people in America starve and die from a lack of medicine, right? Rich people in America pay taxes to support an extensive "safety net" for the poor. That's why there are virtually no people in America starving - unless they or their custodians neglect sustenance - for example, there likely are drug addicts and alcoholics and their dependents suffering from hunger. As to lack of medicine for the poor - we do have these large programs called Medicare and Medicaid to address those problems. Note that a ruthless dictator in Cuba (Batista) and his cohorts were plundering the people and building castles to the sky, and you considered that a good thing. No I didn't. Even if I did approve, you wouldn't know it as I've never discussed pre-revolutionary Cuba. Like so much, you just made that up. OTOH you do actually approve wholeheartedly with the lack of freedom and poverty that Castro and his policies has imposed on Cuba. In fact, you even approve of Castro adding insult to injury by pimping the women of his country - pathetically bragging that in his "socialist paradise" men can hire university educated prostitutes. What Castro has done to Cuba you would like to see extended to the US and all of humanity. And unlike your pitiful made-up insults, what I just wrote is the truth as any reader of your posts can see.