Is Communism the Answer?

I know we are getting slightly off topic; but staying for a minute with Cuba, one of the things positively associated with longer life is restricted calorie intake.

It may be the case that material poverty in Cuba is associated with a (relatively) healthier diet than would be the case if Cubans could all afford a staple diet of quarter pounders and large fries.

It would be interesting to see some detailed stats for the diseases which are more likely and less likely to affect you if you are Cuban. I suppose I would not be surprised to see a higher than normal prevalence of some ailments linked to particular nutritional deficiencies (I can't think of them off the top of my head - but I presume there are some types of food in short supply; meat and dairy perhaps?) but a lower prevalence of many ailments which are linked to obesity and heavily processed foods\ diets short of fresh fruit and veg ( heart attacks, bowel cancer). I might take a look and see if I can post any useful info.
 
Read Animal Farm. As I'm sure everyone has. We are human and to get to the top of the evolutionary tree we had to be selfish ........... ie. bash everything that closely resembled us or would try to get even/pass us out. This, I might add was the order of the day thousands of years ago but there is and will be residual.
 
"All fingers are not alike, If you cut bigger ones to make all equal it is communism, If you stretch smaller ones to make all equal it is socialism, If you do nothing to make all equal it is capitalism."
 
Simeon said:
We are human and to get to the top of the evolutionary tree we had to be selfish ........... ie. bash everything that closely resembled us or would try to get even/pass us out. This, I might add was the order of the day thousands of years ago but there is and will be residual.
Click to expand...

How is that thousands of years ago it seems a fairly apt description of where we are now, every area we inhabit or visit we destroy - the plant life, the animals, the environment and most of the time it is done in the name of progress but in reality it is to make the richest 5% of the population richer and keep the poorest of the poor disempowered.
 
I don't care what type of health care Cuba has, I won't touch the country with a barge pole. I cherish my liberty, thank you very much.

'Thanks, little stranger, for all thy care,
But dearly I love the clear cool air ;
And my snug little nest, on the old oak tree,
Is better than a golden cage to me.'
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top