Dallas Tea Party crowd's message is clear: 'We're not gonna take it' (health care = socialism)

[Billy Burnett]

Dallas Tea Party crowd's message is clear: 'We're not gonna take it'
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/politics/local/stories/DN-dallastea_28met.ART.Central.Edition1.4baf2f7.html

Many in the crowd, including Elida Muñoz of Carrollton, worry that programs like national health insurance are inevitable steps toward socialism, something she said she saw first-hand in her native Cuba.

"I saw what happened there," Muñoz said, "and what we had in Cuba was very much like this. So when the Tea Party started, I jumped in. I don't want to happen again."

Obama is like Castro. :sarcasm:

[bluestateguy]

1. If they don't like this country or the way it is being run, they can leave

Their actions are giving direct aid and comfort to the enemy.

[CurtEastPoint]

2. And as I recall from the WHO rankings, Cuba's HC is better than ours. n/t

[Malikshah]

3. Their problem is that they cannot define what "it" is. As for the Cuban expatriot, she needs

to educate herself and stop playing the Castro card...it's tattered and frayed from being misused in inappropriate analogies. Que lastima, abuelita!

[izquierdista]

6. Abuelita? No, bruja, si.

[abluelady]

4. We're Not Cuba, or Canada...

Why do all the right wing nuts start comparing health care options with other countries. Why can’t we do it better? I swear next time I hear someone criticizing another country’s health care, in connection to our changing our ways, I’m going to ask them: “Don’t you believe Americans are the best; therefore, we’ll get it right.” Can’t wait to hear their response.

[Billy Burnett]

8. Weird that Cuba has world class health care. Diktatorship and all.

I guess Castro forces it on Cubans, who, uniquely, don't want the very thing the rest of the world want (some kind of national/universal healthcare system).
Cubans in Cuba, according to the reight wing, must all be desperate for the republican -yer on yer own- system they had before Castro.

Before the 1959 revolution

75% of rural dwellings were huts made from palm trees.

More than 50% had no toilets of any kind.

85% had no inside running water.

91% had no electricity.

There was only 1 doctor per 2,000 people in rural areas.

More than one-third of the rural population had intestinal parasites.

Only 4% of Cuban peasants ate meat regularly; only 1% ate fish, less than 2% eggs, 3% bread, 11% milk; none ate green vegetables.

The average annual income among peasants was $91 (1956), less than 1/3 of the national income per person.

45% of the rural population was illiterate; 44% had never attended a school.

25% of the labor force was chronically unemployed.

1 million people were illiterate ( in a population of about 5.5 million).

27% of urban children, not to speak of 61% of rural children, were not attending school.

Racial discrimination was widespread.

The public school system had deteriorated badly.

Corruption was endemic; anyone could be bought, from a Supreme Court judge to a cop.

Police brutality and torture were common.

[proud2BlibKansan]

5. Remember that lady in SICKO who got her meds for 5 cents in Cuba?

I think of that scene anytime Cuba's health care system is criticized by idiots.

[Ildem09]

7. the stupid runs strong with them

[Politicalboi]

9. Can you imagine

If these nuts protested war like they did health care. But more than likely they support the war. Go figure.

[seattle_blue]

10. Just fired this off to CNN

I was watching CNN "newsroom" tonight.I noticed you kept trying to stoke the faux populism that is supposedly sweeping the nation.You kept using buzzwords like "over spending" and "broken government." Now here is some financial advice for CNN. Go to the next teabagger rally and round up as many teabaggers as you can.Give them all $100 each. Then give them all mics and cameras. Nobody will know the difference between the teabaggers and your hired goons. Don't worry, your republican handlers will be in power again soon enough.

[ladywnch]

11. just you wait. Elida Muñoz of Carrollton will become the 'Joe the Plumber'

of the tea party crowd. 'Look we have a Cuban in our group. We're not white supremacists. We're not racist. Look....'


She will be trotted out for the cameras and for all press gatherings.......like a prized pony.