Posted on 09/06/2016 8:28:53 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Best-selling author James Patterson thinks that, unlike Cuba, America is unable to “take care of the basics” — education, health care, and food.
Patterson wrote and hosts a new documentary, “Murder of a Small Town,” that looks at two rural communities in Florida, Pahokee and Belle Glade. The towns have been abandoned by industry, are violent, poverty-stricken and offer a contrast to Palm Springs and other affluent coastal communities to the east. …
(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...
Repeating the same lies that people like Michael Moore repeat does not make one look more intelligent.
Well, wadda ya waiting for? Beat it!
Yeah, they all get fed. You see, ff Castro runs out of food he just rounds up a few thousand people he doesn’t like and shoots them. Problem solved.
Guess that’s why people are risking their lives to get into Cuba. /s
In prison, everyone gets fed and everyone gets health care too.
Most modern authors suck. James Patterson is a sucker’s sucker. His tripe isn’t even airline-lounge worthy.
Pahokee was once known for the football players scouted out of their high school.
So do people in prison. All you have to do is give up all your freedoms and the government will take care of you.
Anyone here who does NOT get fed is at fault for not availing themselves of all the available help, public and private, that is available. Or in the case of children and the mentally disabled, because a caretaker has failed in his duty. And health care is free to the poorest of the poor- the rest of us are paying through the nose for it!
Everybody HERE gets fed and gets health care (if he were paying attention...)
Interesting the article being posted by CNS today. This is the 88th anniversary of the Glades Hurricane that so devastated the Lake Okeechobee region.
I used to respect Patterson as an author, but a few years ago, while I was living in S. FL, I read in the first chapter of one of his books about a home invader that hid out for weeks in the cavernous basement of a Miami home.
Miami is built upon a coral ridge, and houses (even mansions) are erected upon “slabs”. If there are any “basements further inland, they would be filled with water all the time from the Everglades. I put the book down and stopped reading, as he totally blew his credibility with me.
If he could make that huge of a mistake, and not be called on it, what other ignorant things was he saying?
Well, this article shows just that.
Health Care in Cuba=Cavernous Basements in Miami.
As Jim Quinn’s show used to say “Nobody ever risked their life on a rubber raft trying to get to Cuba.”
He knows this how?
Sounds like James Patterson has never set foot in Cuba ,they beg you for your free Hotel soap and shampoo
Palm Springs and other coastal cities in the east..” — ?? Needs an editor or a massive, super-sized earthquake to get the geography right, ha! Didn’t bother reading any further—
...and ...and ... the women are 7 feet tall!
Yep, before tractors, farmers made sure their horses and mules were taken care of. Can't remember whose quote it was, but: The comfort of the rich depends on a plentiful supply of the poor.
Patterson is a moron.
Thank you, James, for helping me to update my “authors to avoid” list. This surely is the season for choosing. So many folks showing their true colors.
“I put the book down and stopped reading, as he totally blew his credibility with me.”
I quit reading his books years ago too. Another detail he would repeatedly get wrong was after some sort of shooting, he would use a variation of the phrase “the smell of cordite filled the air.” Firearms cartridges haven’t been loaded using cordite as a propellant for almost half a century, so how the “smell of cordite” could “fill the air” is just plain ignorant. Yeah, it’s a small detail, just like saying a home has a basement in an area that would put the basement below sea level, but it’s just sloppy writing. He’s also a ‘formula writer’, using just a few basic storylines, and then changing the names of the characters, the location, etc.
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