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01-01-2008, 08:22 PM
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| Recommended Viewing! I must recommend that everybody watch the documentary "Sicko" by Michael Moore. I haven't really cared for any of Michael Moore's movies but I had heard stories that even some of his strongest critics said that he got this one right. I was curious, so I got it and watched it. I was pretty impressed. He even took what I thought was a couple of "pot shots" at Hillary Clinton in this movie and I was very surprised and pleasantly pleased to see him do that. What really got me was when he took some people that were 9/11 responders to Guantanamo Bay to get the same free health care for the responders that we were giving to the terrorists, he didn't get in, but they were seen by Cuba's health system and one gal got her $120 (in the U.S.) prescription filled for about 5 cents in Cuba! It really makes you think about the way things are in the United States health care system. Without much, if any, of his usual very liberal slant on things.
__________________ Politicians are like diapers, they both need changed occasionally for the same reason. Calling an illegal alien an "undocumented immigrant" is like calling a drug dealer an "unlicensed pharmacist" The hard work of one will do more than the prayer of millions.     |
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01-01-2008, 08:38 PM
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| I liked the movie too. He definatley has a way to get the wheels turning in peoples head. I think the U.S is too much about the dollar. Y give something out for free or next to nothing when you can make money on it?! Since everything costs, that's all anyone is concerned about is making that money. Makes it difficult for people to help another just because. It seems the ones that want to help can't and the ones that can help don't/won't.
__________________ "Change within yourself that which you would like to see changed in the world." Mahatma Ghandi "You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everything else." You are the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world." "We are defined by the choices we make." ~Tyler~ (fight club) Eleanor Roosevelt - “It seems difficult to make humanity rise to certain heights except in crises.” |
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01-01-2008, 09:24 PM
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Comments about the video report at this link. Babalu Blog: Hysterics or Hysterical? Check out the pictures and report at this link. Wonders of Cuban Healthcare - Part I UPDATE: English Translation of Report « Free Thoughts
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01-01-2008, 10:15 PM
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| Yes, the statements about Cuba may be false, but that doesn't mean everything else in the film is incorrect or lies! I believe that everything else in that film holds true!
__________________ *** If the government of the United States was serious about the invasion of our nation by illegal aliens, they would do more about it. And if you do not think this is an invasion, then try and stop it. *** A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take away everything you have -- Thomas Jefferson *** "The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil but because of those who look on and do nothing." --Albert Einstein |
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01-01-2008, 10:41 PM
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| When you lie, you lose credability. When you lose credability it is hard for people to believe you. If you lie once in a film that is supposed to be solid facts, how can one assume that you won't lie again.
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01-02-2008, 12:43 AM
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__________________ *** If the government of the United States was serious about the invasion of our nation by illegal aliens, they would do more about it. And if you do not think this is an invasion, then try and stop it. *** A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take away everything you have -- Thomas Jefferson *** "The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil but because of those who look on and do nothing." --Albert Einstein |
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01-02-2008, 04:55 AM
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| Wow, those videos of the hospitals in Cuba look almost like the VA hospitals that were also featured on a news program.
__________________ Politicians are like diapers, they both need changed occasionally for the same reason. Calling an illegal alien an "undocumented immigrant" is like calling a drug dealer an "unlicensed pharmacist" The hard work of one will do more than the prayer of millions. |
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01-02-2008, 05:17 AM
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01-02-2008, 07:06 AM
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__________________ LIBERALISM The haunting fear someone, somewhere can help themselves. "Over the last fifteen months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states..." Barack Obama |
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01-02-2008, 07:12 AM
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| While being far from perfect...and definitely expensive our healthcare program in the United States is the best in the world. People that have money come HERE to get the best care. Moore's piece is very one sided. Did anyone watching the movie bother to research any of the "facts" in the movie? Did the amount of uninsured Americans include illegals? Did it include Americans who can buy healthcare but don't? I am not a M. Moore fan. Our healthcare system does need fixed to some degree I will agree.
__________________ LIBERALISM The haunting fear someone, somewhere can help themselves. "Over the last fifteen months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states..." Barack Obama |
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