A doctor in Socialist Communist Cuba earns about $15 an hour. A doctor in Free Enterprise Democracy United States of America earns a lot more than that.
If you live in Cuba and want to leave for another country, the communist regime makes you leave everything behind but your personal items. I mean, even the kitchen serving spoons have to stay.
The Cuban doctors, nurses, teachers, those kind of professionals, have a hard time leaving because they owe the government time at work for the education. And then they make just little bits, and that’s how Socialist Communism controls its people. They are dependent on the government. School was free, sure, but then they have to pay back by having to work many years, even if they want to move. And they earn chump change compared to Free Enterprise Democracies.
Imagine 16 hours without electricity every day, maybe 20. Maybe 36 hours at a time.
If you did have enough money to buy some good food, maybe by selling something, the food would spoil because the refrigerator was not on.
Try going through an operation lit by a cellphone flashlight. Try going to the government store to get some toothpaste, the one brand the government supplies to the people, and the shelves are empty again. One brand. Their brand.
Try being afraid to speak out against any of this third world country living, or how you feel that the people at the top have all the luxury, comfort, good food, electricity, but the people are in the dark, in the cold, in the heat, in poverty.
Imagine being a veterinarian in a communist country who gets paid in chicken eggs and pie, while your democratic country counterpart is earning $120,000 a year! Or getting a pension of $60 a month and so poor… poor…poor…. that color and fancy and comfort and spacious and toys are hardly even in your vocabulary.
Socialists offer free school and free healthcare, and then they own you because they pay you too little to be free, and you become dependent on them, controlled… and why would anyone work hard if they aren’t going to be rewarded any better than the lazy person they work beside? Humans weren’t meant to be controlled like that, really.
It’s a nice idea to share, such as, if you have two oranges and the other person has none, you can share out of good will. But to squelch the talent, intelligence, strength, cleverness, and so on of people just to stifle them and keep them down… that’s an awful idea.
Instead of Socialism, which seems like giving up, a government should work harder at addressing the social ills, such as immorality and drug use, and then making sure skills and education are taught early on. Build from the ground up.
Socialism is Communism. A.I. lists all the Communist countries as “socialist.” Think about it. The socialist country helps their people get through college, but then the college educated person earns so little they live in poverty. Why is that good?
I admit. I have trepidation even telling this information. Did you know in China, they are torturing people in their prisons for have a religious belief they government doesn’t like? I met a gal at a fast food place and admired her accent. After I asked where she was from, she got all frightened and looked this way and that, and ran off. She was afraid!
A good government will exist when the people are also good. It’s up to American citizens to behave so they can be trusted. There is a lot of bad behavior that is destructive. The destructive people need to realize what they are doing.
Letters To A Puzzled World 