So, if you're hungry which is better? Being able to stand in line at some swanky restaurant for three hours in hopes that you can get a great meal (so you've heard anyways) only to be turned away at the door because you don't have a jacket and tie, or being able to walk into lesser establishment, get seated immediately and get a good meal that fills your belly?
Every citizen in Venezuela has access to healthcare and competant doctors. There are 40 million Americans who do not have insurance and cannot access the healthcare system. That is 13 million more than the population of Venezuela. Having guaranteed access to healthcare is a helluva lot better than having access to nothing.
Yes, I guess Chaves should have instead spoke to the "Axis of Evil" and mentioned the "evil doers" and let the United Nations know that he is doing "God''s work" and that "God is directing him" and that the nations of the world are either "with the America or with the terrorists".
(As Reza Aslan increduously said after hearing that last jewel, "we sure as hell aren't with you [Bush] so... ???")
I love how one guy can spew all of the retoric and hyperbole he wants, while lying his ass off, and gets away with it, but someone pokes fun at that and he gets demonized. Too bad no one bothered to read the text of the speech. He made some really good points. But don't bother worrying about context, just worry about that 30 second sound bite that keeps us westerners so informed.
Chavez was technically not in America, he was at the UN, which is international land. Also, American presidents have routinely bashed leaders of other countries from the same pulpit, so your point is moot. And you want to talk about violent acts? The CIA has already tried (unsuccessfully) to whack Chavez in his own country. They also restricted his security detail to the plane while Chavez spoke at the UN. Seems to me that Chavez displayed a helluva set of balls to make the speech he did unprotected. Bush can't take a crap without having someone test the toilet paper for surface poisons first.
You would, would you. Pretty easy to say for someone living in Canada who has ZERO idea of either system. You'd love the US system. You'd have your heart attack, end up in the hospital, be released four days later, and then get a bill for $45K (one of my co-workers when through this exact scenario about eight months ago). You'd immediately have another heart attack from seeing the bill and drop dead. Yup, it's a great system. Any system that can put you into bankruptcy because you get sick is not only broken, but useless. The idea of healthcare is to preserve life. That includes quality of life.
General healthcare. You know, the things that we would normally require in our every day lives. Canadians don't realize how good they have it when they can walk into a clinic and not have to worry about shelling out a crap load of money out of their pocket. I had to take my wife to see someone out of our network a couple weeks ago because her back was killing her. It cost us $125 just to walk in the door and then another $70 in prescription meds. She saw the "doctor" for less than two minutes, yet he was able to make a diagnosis on the spot like that. Yup, great system.
Oh my God, now my avatar is going to create controversy??? Azure's avatar has two guys with guns! That means he's a thug with a possey that's going to kill anyone that comes near him!!! RUN FOR YOUR ****ING LIVES!!!! It's a freakin' graphic from one of my favorite movies and one I use with another online handle. I also have one that I used during the playoffs with the Stanley Cup in it (does that make the Stanley Cup the actual Holy Grail now becauise it showed up in my avatar???) so does that have some hidden meaning too??? Yes, hard to believe that I would actually label someone a moron or an idiot (both clinical terms for someone with an IQ under 75 and 50 respectively IIRC, btw) for their thought processes.