I’m sick of hearing sanctimonious comments about the United States lecturing Cuba on basic human rights.
Cuba has 11.7 million residents [1].
We have 2.2 million [2] incarcerated- mostly, poor, black or in need of proper mental health care.
We have abject poverty, higher infant mortality, the highest per capita murder rate, no national health care – the list goes on.
We’re a third world nation now.
It’s time we stopped “solving the world’s problems” and started solving our own.
Communism isn’t the enemy. Castro isn’t the enemy.
Unbridled capitalism has failed us in every way.
We’ve got the best government money can buy- and frankly, it’s not worth a crap.
Kudos to President Obama for fixing this farce left over from the fear-mongering of the 1960s.
Now, if Congress would actually do their job and vote on a supreme court nominee. Or do we have to buy them too now?
Finally! Honesty vs. mindless, sanctimonious flag-waving! If people would just look with clear eyes and factual information at our lightning-fast slide into collapse into complete dysfunction, we might see that NOW is the time to stand together and boot out the majority of the millionaires in Congress at this next election if we are to have any hope at all of salvaging our once-egalitarian culture. Thanks, David! I don’t understand why more people aren’t aware of this precipice …. and this human tragedy that is playing out in spades among the poor and middle class. Mind-boggling.
Plus, it would be a lot easier to get Cuban cigars here in the U.S.