USA presidential elections 2016

woodburner · Post by **woodburner** » 03 Dec 2016, 00:12

vtsnowedin wrote:
woodburner wrote:Isn't it more a case of not being overfed, rather than describing it as underfed?
Perhaps but something about the government deciding how much I have to eat or feed my children just rubs me the wrong way.

Your government does decide what you and your children, in general, will be persuaded to eat, so as to support Big-Ag. As a result there are thousands of products based on wheat and on maize (corn) in the form of starch and oil and is the reason there are so many obese (and morbidly so) people around today. They are suffering maladies that, fortunately, can be treated by drugs from Big-Pharma. There is no intention to find cures as there's no money in healthy people. Read Gary Taubes' "Good Calories Bad Calories" to see how your "caring" government fosters "caring" food policies, then compare with the evil despotic Cubans who are healthy and don't need all those drug inputs.

vtsnowedin · Post by **vtsnowedin** » 03 Dec 2016, 00:16

OK Little John I get that you are totally in the tank for the Cuban revolution.
When are you going to move to Havana and start living on $20 a month?
And by the way my local K thru 12 school which one of my daughters teaches at has a student teacher ratio of 7 to 1 and graduates (my daughters among others) have PHDs from such establishments as Dartmouth college and UVM.

woodburner · Post by **woodburner** » 03 Dec 2016, 01:10

PhDs do not necessarily indicate a good teacher. In fact some of them are poor at teaching.

vtsnowedin · Post by **vtsnowedin** » 03 Dec 2016, 01:31

woodburner wrote:PhDs do not necessarily indicate a good teacher. In fact some of them are poor at teaching.

The one that teaches is the one that did not (Yet) get a PHD.
I do hear your point having had very smart professors that had no clue how to get the knowledge in their heads into their students heads.
The not so brilliant instructors /professors that told you what you needed to know before the tests, and your work life after graduation were what made the college experience worth the money.

Post by **kenneal - lagger** » 03 Dec 2016, 04:21

Having been to Cuba a few years ago I was struck by the love that many of the people had for Castro. There was a dark side to him but the way that the Cuban people and government responded to the US blockade and a drop in available calories to 1200 per day from unlimited and recovered to adequate in only about 18 months is nothing short of astonishing. The people do receive a ration of food but they can buy unlimited vegetables on an open market, not an expensive black market, which guarantees them an adequate and very healthy diet. The world would likely be a more healthy place with a US blockade and a Castro in charge!

Don't forget that all Castro did of didn't do was under a stringent blockade by the US. How would the US do with a very limited supply of oil. Fall into chaos and armed conflict with mass deaths probably.

fuzzy · Post by **fuzzy** » 03 Dec 2016, 09:34

Just bear in mind [in case some of our gov idiots read this bb] that 1200 calories in a tropical island is somewhat different to 1200 calories at 56 deg latitude.

Post by **kenneal - lagger** » 03 Dec 2016, 13:57

fuzzy wrote:Just bear in mind [in case some of our gov idiots read this bb] that 1200 calories in a tropical island is somewhat different to 1200 calories at 56 deg latitude.

It's still not a long term living "wage" for the body in any climate.

vtsnowedin · Post by **vtsnowedin** » 03 Dec 2016, 16:48

If I had moderator privileges and skills I would move all of the Cuba discussion from Nov. 30th on over to a new thread titled "Castro good or bad?"

emordnilap · Post by **emordnilap** » 06 Dec 2016, 09:55

Good idea. And almost everyone agrees he was both. Some of us agree that he was largely good, particularly given the circumstances imposed by the US regime.