To: Brumar89 who wrote (64393 ) 2/27/2008 9:19:29 AM From: Brumar89 Respond to "Do not liberals hold themselves out as supporters of human rights? And yet they inevitably find themselves defacto supporting and defending (and sometimes championing) monsters like Stalin, Mao, Che, Fidel, Hugo Chavez, Saddam, Ahmadinejad .... etc." 100% literary . They are poor, but they aren't exploited in the same way as the poor are in many countries. They don't have shanty towns. They probably have the best medical system in the world if we confine our comparison to countries with per capita incomes of under (to take a pretty arbitrary number) $10,000 (their per capita income was about $4,500 in 2007, according to the CIA World Factbook). And it compares well enough to advanced high income countries that we had a discussion about it on this thread a number of months ago.Message 24339505 Those 'uncivilized' Cubans would probably make healthier and better educated workers for a US plant located there than would our own laborers. Message 24339528 Message 24347628 And the response to that depiction of reality vs liberal mythology? None.
