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You can mis-quote history - I've lived it. Retired Police Lieutenant from a city much wilder and crime infested than Lewiston ever thought of being; covered beheadings before they were 'de rigueur' in Iraq. Retired Senior Chief Petty Officer (E-8) USN/USNR; four 'Nam deployments with a side trip to Korea for the USS Pueblo fiasco before Tet '68 - battle for Hue. Proud member of the ACLU and MCLU. Ex-certified Illinois Police Firearms Instructor. Gracefully retired along the Damariscotta River in East Boothbay with my wife, two dogs - and equal number of cats. Occasionally sell a rare book or two through the internet or to tourists. It's a rough life, but somebody has to do it.
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Why are
Why are people from Montana writing letters to Maine????
Because they don't want the sheep reading them back home.
What do you expect with the
Reagan tax cuts, Bush I tax cut, Bush II (temporary Bwa-ha-haa-haaa!!!) tax cuts...
You forgot those, Mark...
And the problem with that???
And the problem with that??? They have govt. health care.
What Cuba Can Teach Us About Health Care
"Despite a 50-year trade embargo by the United States and a post-Soviet collapse in international support, the impoverished nation has developed a world-class health care system. Average life expectancy is 77.5 years, compared to 78.1 years in the United States, and infant and child mortality rates match or beat our own. There’s one doctor for every 170 people, more than twice the per-capita U.S. average.
Not everything is perfect in Cuba. There are shortages of medicines, and the best care is reserved for elites. But it’s still a powerful feat. “In Cuba, a little over $300 per person is spent on health care each year. In the U.S., we’re spending over $7,000 per person,” said Drain, co-author of Caring for the World and an essay published April 29 in Science. “They’re able to achieve great health outcomes on a modest budget.”
I encounter that quite frequently
Xenophobia - Fear of PFA's
"Go back home, Flatlander!!"
Another good reason.....
"While Medicare fraud is a national scourge, found primarily in large urban areas, federal authorities said the very worst of it these days is in South Florida— particularly in Miami-Dade County. Most of these schemes, they said, are found in the cities of Miami and Hialeah, where they are often concentrated in parts of the Cuban immigrant community." - see --> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22184921/ns/nightly_news/t/blatant-medicare-...
Time to end our embargo on Cuba and let these people go back home where they have Government provided health-care.....