Posted on 02/23/2020 8:50:55 PM PST by Helicondelta
Cuban dictator Fidel Castro’s “massive literacy program” during a CBS “60 Minutes” clip that aired on Sunday.
CNN anchor Anderson Cooper introduced the topic by playing a clip of an 1985 interview with government-access Vermont TV in which Sanders said the Castro regime “educated their kids, gave them healthcare” and “totally transformed the society.”
In a 1989 statement as mayor of Burlington, Vermont, Sanders praised the Cuban revolution as a “very profound and very deep revolution,” the Washington Examiner reported.
“For better or for worse, the Cuban revolution is a very profound and very deep revolution,” he wrote. “Much deeper than I had understood. More interesting than their providing their people with free health care, free education, free housing … is that they are in fact creating a very different value system than the one we are familiar with.”
Last February, the Reagan Battalion Twitter account posted a video of Sanders reminiscing about watching the Nixon-Kennedy debates in 1960 and almost leaving “to puke” when both candidates criticized the Cuban dictator.
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So you can read the forced confession that you’ll be signing.
Wow.
Wow.
Even I really wasn’t sure if he was telling the truth.
I mean, what’s the point of a hospital then?
Hospital? That weren’t no hospital-—it was the morgue!
Sounds like patients got the same treatment at both!!
Good one, Enterprise!
I wonder if he would also praise Hitler’s infrastructure programs and Mussolini’s transportation initiatives?
Cuba’s literacy program does not include a freedom of speech in publishing.
Actually, before Castro, Cuba had one of the highest standards of living in the hemisphere, and also, I think, the third highest literacy rate. Literacy declined after the Communists took over.
Was there poverty? Of course, but in pre-Communist Cuba there was also a functioning economy and things were improving. Batista may not have been a nice guy, but he was engaged in massive infrastructure projects to modernize the island, such as highways and housing developments.
But the foolish university world and the children of the well-off, then as now, had the leisure and arrogance to be ready targets for Marxist infiltration - by people such as the Argentinian Che Guevara, among others. And they destroyed a country that was full of promise (not to mention good music and great rum!).
Our public school and University systems have betrayed us for decades and now there is a piper knocking at the door with a bill.
He said If you went to the hospital, you had to bring your own toiletries, sheets and bedding and in many cases, I kid you not...your own medication.
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Is true and that’s one of the good things: self-service medicine
Do we really want a Soviet era Communist for a president??
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there are a LOT of people who, while not democrats, would love to see djt gone because they are tired of hearing all the negative stories in the msn, so bernie will be just fine with them - he’s not djt; and the bad things told by old people who are senile about communism are a myth - its what America was meant to be.
The odd thing is that they generally have a robust and very good private health care system that everyone uses unless they are desperate. Probably not in Cuba.
A friend of ours, the sister of one of our pastors was hit by a car. She was taken to the local hospital where the doctor on call sewed her up but since her family was not notified she was covered with newspaper when we got there.
We made arrangements for her to be moved to a clinic, Hospitals are state run, clinics are privately run, where she at least had the basics.
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