I spend quite a lot of time in countries where "people" do not have a vote. That does not mean of course that people do not have influence or a say in how things are.
I am quite happy to be corrected, but i am under the impression that Cuba has a higher life expectancy, better education levels, lower infant mortality rates, and better health provision than it's neighbour, the USA. If you were to be cynical, you might say that the US did not appreciate this.
However, a lack of choice does seem to lead to corruption of all things, as it did in the previous administration in Cuba.
It is the big question. Does democracy really deliver to all the citizens all the time? I tend to see that the bottom 20% get shat on in first world countries. They have probably worked out what percentage have to be unhappy to cause a revolt and it is certainly more than 20%.
Maybe all political systems are just about what percentage of what group gets shat on.
Read Animal Farm SnS.
Happy to correct. Whoohoo.. Cuba is 79 and US is 78.2.... like every.. no like ANY American knows or cares about the 10 month difference of senior citizenry. How about the lifestyle thereof.
And do you have ANY or ZERO clue why US mortality rates are the way they are..... in second world countries... any baby who is born and struggling they let go and die... they don't have the $$$, nor technologies to keep them afloat, per se. The United States is, for example, one of only a handful countries that keeps detailed statistics on early fetal mortality — the survival rate of infants who are born as early as the 20th week of gestation.
How does this skew the statistics? Because in the United States if an infant is born weighing only 400 grams and not breathing, a doctor will likely spend lot of time and money trying to revive that infant. If the infant does not survive — and the mortality rate for such infants is in excess of 50 percent — that sequence of events will be recorded as a live birth and then a death. In Cuba, it's out the window and into the dumpster.
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Be smart on statistics... spoon-fed America and the mainstream media can take simple stats and turn them on their side so easily.
Education... ok literacy... US is at 99% and Cuba is at 99.7 or 99.8 pending the source. One country has 303 million ppl, the other has 11 million ppl. One forces children to go to school, the other (under the guise of the ACLU and every lib legal outlet) allows children to drop out of school, under the guise that government will support them via welfare.
Last I checked.. I never heard of any American jealous of Cuban literacy or math scores vs Americans. Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Sweden, the UK, Italy,.... AKA countries that "matter" (sorry, but Cuba contributes little to global welfare) have equal literacy rates.
Let's look at higher education... nevermind. Too easy.
why in the world do you think myriads of ppl in Miami/South Florida have been dancing in the streets today????!!!
Much of your bottom 20% you mention here feed off the system... why in the MOST PROPSERIOUS of times... when companies are starving for employment, handing out absurd signing bonuses... illegals filling low paying jobs, etc... did we still find 4% unemployment???
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(note: given how AWFUL and evil Bush has been, with historical low economic policies, we are mysteriously at better unemployment rates than the 90's... 80's and 70's... but I digress.
So your theory on the "revolt level", if true, must take out the 'bottom' lazy 4% as they seem to not care or try.... and worse case of late we see the near 10% Reagan inherited from Carter....
Americans have become so expectant at times, it' sickening.
Want more, work more.