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Everybody eats. Everybody gets evacuated to a safe place in a hurricane. Everybody gets to go to the doctor. Nobody is getting ripped off by gold hucksters preying on their reasonable fear of economic collapse.

Not everybody gets to do everything they want? I'm pretty sure that's true where you live too. I know it is where I live.
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Marlene wrote:Everybody eats. Everybody gets evacuated to a safe place in a hurricane. Everybody gets to go to the doctor. Nobody is getting ripped off by gold hucksters preying on their reasonable fear of economic collapse.

Not everybody gets to do everything they want? I'm pretty sure that's true where you live too. I know it is where I live.
Okay,, so I didn't miss anything... it's a matter of a value judgement then.. personal priorities .. which would be fine if it was voluntary.. don't know any place where participation is voluntary .. not saying some don't stay willingly.. but enough risk life and limb or incarceration if caught for the world to know leaving a system like that is not risk free or an easy option.

The "everybody gets evacuated to a safe place in a Hurricane" part seems a bit more utopian than realistic, at least this week https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/ ... t-response

maybe next time...

about that hunger part https://www.csmonitor.com/1995/0612/12062.html http://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/ ... /95004332/

Maybe they re doing better in Venezuela? https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/glo ... 1e5e3704eb

oops nevermind

medical care https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/wor ... 103039928/

maybe Argentina https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_in_Argentina nope 37% not covered... but better than Venezuela Utopia can be so hit and miss sometimes...

Just can't seem to get the Doctors and staff to voluntarily stay in paradise ...

Like Cuba

Human Rights Watch complains that the government "bars citizens engaged in authorized travel from taking their children with them overseas, essentially holding the children hostage to guarantee the parents' return. Given the widespread fear of forced family separation, these travel restrictions provide the Cuban government with a powerful tool for punishing defectors and silencing critics."[63] Doctors are reported to be monitored by "minders" and subject to curfew. The Cuban government uses relatives as hostages to prevent doctors from defecting.[64][65] According to a paper published in The Lancet medical journal, "growing numbers of Cuban doctors sent overseas to work are defecting to the USA", some via Colombia, where they have sought temporary asylum.[64] from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Cuba

sounds lovely

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Marlene wrote:Everybody eats. Everybody gets evacuated to a safe place in a hurricane. Everybody gets to go to the doctor. Nobody is getting ripped off by gold hucksters preying on their reasonable fear of economic collapse.

Not everybody gets to do everything they want? I'm pretty sure that's true where you live too. I know it is where I live.
Everyone in America eats, everyone gets evacuated to a safe place in a hurricane. Much as I detest both Greg Abbot in Texas, and Rick Scott in Florida, the numbers of deaths in those 2 states from Harvey and Irma was incredibly small. Between the 2 states, they have 48 million people and those states did a marvelous job protecting lives, far better than Katrina or the Caribbean islands. (and many of the Texas and Florida studied how NY/NJ/CT handled Sandy--and what went wrong in Katrina) That's more than 4x the population of Cuba.

I already acknowledged that Cuba has excellent health care--and we still have more Americans without it than there are Cubans. But under Obamacare, we also added more than double Cuba's population to our healthcare system.
"Even if the bee could explain to the fly why pollen is better than shit, the fly could never understand."

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YankeeTarheel wrote:
Marlene wrote:Everybody eats. Everybody gets evacuated to a safe place in a hurricane. Everybody gets to go to the doctor. Nobody is getting ripped off by gold hucksters preying on their reasonable fear of economic collapse.

Not everybody gets to do everything they want? I'm pretty sure that's true where you live too. I know it is where I live.
Everyone in America eats, everyone gets evacuated to a safe place in a hurricane.
Sorry, both of those fail in the US. Scan the news agencies for fresh stories - only the folks that can afford to leave and can pay gouged prices for gas are evacuated. The poor and homeless folks make do...or are shot by police on bridges trying to walk out of town.
http://miami.cbslocal.com/2017/09/09/sc ... or-divide/
The estimated percentage of U.S. households that were food insecure declined significantly in 2015 to 12.7 percent of U.S. households (15.8 million households, approximately one in eight). This is down significantly from 2014, when 14.0 percent of households (17.5 million households, approximately one in seven), were food insecure.
http://www.worldhunger.org/hunger-in-am ... rty-facts/

This was a great documentary, BTW: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power ... d_Peak_Oil

https://youtu.be/L2TzvnRo6_c

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