Another example of how President Obama has no concern for human rights in Cuba.
Barack Obama Extols Cuba’s Slave-Labor Medical Care
Barack Obama, fresh from his historic opening to Cuba’s Castro brothers, was effusive in his praise of Cuba’s socialized health care system. Speaking to a town hall in Argentina, Obama gushed: “Medical care–the life expectancy of Cubans is equivalent to that of the United States, despite it being a very poor country, because they have access to health care. That’s a huge achievement. They should be congratulated.”
Obama has been equally emphatic in his condemnation of “barbaric” and “evil” slavery, which is “wrong in every sense.” In Havana, Obama empathized with the Cuban people that slavery left its negative imprint on “Cuba, [which], like the United States, was built in part by slaves brought here from Africa.”
In the internet dictionary, slave labor is defined as “labor that is coerced and inadequately rewarded.” Coercion is the use of force to get people to do something they would not do otherwise. Inadequate reward means earning much less than the value that has been created. Karl Marx used the term surplus value to denote workers being paid considerably less than their value. Under Marxism, surplus value is the original sin of capitalist exploitation. Seems like the Castro brothers live off of surplus value too.
According to the definition, Cuba’s vaunted medical care system is built on slave labor. Cuban medical personnel are coerced by a dictatorial state and inadequately rewarded from the profit they generate (Marx’s surplus value), which accrues primarily to the Castro dictatorship. As pointed out by a Cuban doctor who served overseas before defecting: “We are the highest qualified slave-labor force in the world.”
The World Affairs Journal explains why Cuba’s health care professionals are coerced into slave labor by Cuba’s totalitarian state:
“With the state the sole employer, health professionals are forbidden from leaving the country without permission; issuing them proof of their medical studies and credentials is punishable by law. When they are sent on a foreign mission, they must leave their families behind as hostages to their return. With the average monthly salary of a doctor only around $25, barely guaranteeing subsistence, the system ensures a steady pool of temporary workers, ‘exportable commodities’ primed for exploitation.”
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Well, he can’t call it human trafficking, now can he? Look, what it all boils down to, more or less, is that Obama’s policy has much more in common with Mandela’s seriously hypocritical view of Cuba than with Cuba’s reality, and we all know that reality is of little if any concern to anybody except “those people” and the odd outlier here and there.
And once again, who is that creature to the left of Obama in the photo? I hope she’s some Castro flunky, though she looks more German or Eastern European than anything else, but I surely hope she’s not part of Obama’s entourage. Yikes.
She’s has her hand over her heart for the US national anthem, so she’s an American.
Yes, that makes sense, Griffin, but talk about bad “optics.” And I was already traumatized with Roberta Jacobson. Sheesh.