Everywhere there is communism, it seems there is a flow of people trying to exit the communist states, towards the free states. That pretty much tells me all I need to know about communism and its actual functionality.
What, the former USSR states? Yeah... because that was real Communism.
Do you include China in that assessment? 1.4 billion people are living under Communism right now, and those who can afford to leave usually stay.
Besides, I thought Cuba had world class healthcare that outstriped the American system by a mile, and yet the government cannot afford to help large, impoverished families? Nobody floats on a raft, in the open seas, to "simply see the world".
They have world class health care
expertise which is the reason why many doctors, including myself, go there to learn about Western modalities of treatment. The resources they do have are shared, and their drugs are extraordinarily cheap (referenced by the fact that many Western nations outsource from Cuba). What they lack is modern technology, particularly for diagnostics and surgery, as well as laboratory facilities. All of their doctors are trained in how to use these systems, but the embargo prevents the tech. from being imported. Even willing nations who would gladly sell it to them are bullied into not doing so by the U.S.
I'm telling you, the embargo is the root of all evil in that country. The propaganda wheel can spin the story all it wants in the U.S., but it simply isn't true.
The government cannot afford to help large families because of the rationing system. Also, people leave because they do not like their work assignments, and everyone has one in order to sustain the society. People are assigned to work sectors based on job need, and although the systems there are well-oiled given the lack of resources, not everyone wants the jobs that they get. But due to the embargo, skilled labour cannot be imported, so Cubans must always fill the job posts. This is the number one reason why Cubans are not allowed to leave. If they were, the micro-economy would collapse.
So... most of the "evils" of communism and the sufferings that people go through as espoused by the U.S. propaganda machine are actually due to the embargo, either directly or indirectly.
