Posted on 04/30/2007 7:24:02 AM PDT by Kitten Festival
Media: Communist regimes are known to falsify and distort statistics, but they rarely get away with it unless Western media play along. They scored a big hit recently with data about Cuba's storied life expectancy.
In a widely distributed news story, the Associated Press last week explained why Cubans were living such long, healthy lives under their 47-year totalitarian dictatorship. Taking the word of Cuban officials, it credited the island's "mild climate," "free medical care" and "low-stress Caribbean lifestyle." Right on cue, CBS gave "thanks to the socialist island state's free health-care system" that's there so "fortunately."
But media claims that socialism lets Cubans live longer makes no sense. Cuba's living conditions portend anything but a long life.
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Put some good old American fast-food joints on every corner and see what happens.
Maybe it’s all that rice and sugar in the diet that does it.;-)
Or maybe that cholesterol in the seafood.
70%.
70% of all Cuban pregnancies end in abortion.
America’s liberals feel that with a little help we can beat that. They are trying for 90% or better.
9 out of 10 Russian pregnancies ended in abortion, and the average Russian woman had nine in her lifetime under Soviet control.
Actually, shouldn’t a socialist state encourage behavior that leads people to die earlier?
Less health upkeep ‘cause as they don’t get older
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