Ignorance

Ignorance

Most people are decent human beings. They go to work each day to earn enough to provide for their family. But living in the 21st Century can be very complex. There are individuals with competing interests who depend on the ignorance of the majority. There I go insulting everybody by calling them ignorant – but please do not take offense. I myself in the past have been ignorant about many things and this losing streak remains intact and unbroken by me even up until this very day. Any man who does not admit he is ignorant about something will one day discover the hard way that he has also been a fool.

If we examine the root of the word ignorance we see the word “ignore.” So if you are ignorant it is because up till now you have “ignored” the facts concerning any number of things. That means there is always hope of rectifying ignorance if you just pay attention.

For example take Cuba. In Cuba they have free health care right? Before answering let’s examine the facts. When you think about regular health care you conjure up memories going back to your childhood of visiting antiseptic clean white walled rooms with a gaggle of nurses and doctors running around attending to their patients. It’s your turn and you go back to a numbered room, strip down a bit and after a while YOUR doctor enters. The doctor begins to work you over poking and prodding using the most up-to-date devices to assess your general health. Sooner or later whether you’re sick or to prevent illness you are getting injections and maybe a prescription for medication. You are on your way to fill that prescription with perhaps a date for a follow up visit to monitor your condition should the situation warrant it. But in Cuba they have a single provider system – the Cuban government. If you are not a gullible tourist with cash or upper echelon party official, meaning the vast majority of Cubans, you go to your local clinic. These are filthy, blood and body fluid splattered, vermin invested rooms where you will find a lack of staff. The doctors and nurses of Cuba have been sent to other countries like Venezuela and Bolivia so the Castro boys can use them to convince those people what a swell deal communism is. So you wait a long while to be diagnosed by staff that does not have the modern tools of the medical trade. The final fact of this “health care service” is there is no medicine available – unless you have cash. So you tell me. Does Cuba have free health care?

But that’s because of the embargo right? Hold on don’t say a bloody word there before you have reasoned out the facts. The fact is the U.S. IS the biggest supplier of food and medicine to Cuba and its sixth largest trader outright. The Castro boys’ Cuban government stole millions of dollars of American property when they seized power in 1959 which even today is still the largest uncompensated theft of U.S. private assets. So naturally with this criminal record we make them pay cash now for everything. Wouldn’t you for goodness’ sake? But they can buy as much food and medicine as they like for cash. So do these altruistic enlightened leaders of Cuba buy penicillin and insulin and adequate food supplies for the people they shepherd? Hell no! They buy ketchup, mustard and salad dressing for their cash paying tourists. Then with the tourists’ money they buy villas in numerous other countries worth millions where they can stash the cash and send their families to live away from the realities of the “revolution.” Anyways that’s the case with Fidel’s and Raul’s kids. So now I again ask you. Are Cubans poor and doing without because of the embargo?

Well at least they always have that free education system to fall back on right? Wait a second there fellow before even uttering a word. If all you mean is the schooling there cost you no money then you’d be correct in that flat earth education world. But as we know time is money. In Cuba the government owns your time. They alone hold the power to tell you when and where you should be at all times. Could be Fidel’s birthday and you have a cold. Too bad comrade…you’re waving a little Cuban flag for Fidel today like it or not. Your time is not all the Cuban government owns. They own your body as well. Dr. Molina’s well documented case is absolute proof. The government refuses to allow her to travel outside of Cuba to meet her grandson for the first time for fear of losing their “investment” in educating her brain to become a Cuban doctor. Finally, the Castro government wrote into Cuban law that all Cuban children are the property of the state. So I ask you one that last question once again. Is Cuba’s education system free? Oh by the way they tell you what you can and can’t read, hear or see as well. And you can’t have the Internet either.