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owns the businesses that sell food in Cuba and that his poor people starve to death and he blamed the USA, yet he has a deal with China for oil drilling offshore of Cuba and converting his crops into fuel for China.

Most of the poor in this world have been oppressed by their own governments, many of Castro's poor have been forced into concentration camps as political prisoners and their wealth confiscated by the government.

Meanwhile Thailand has a ton of rice to sell, cheap, but these governments don't want to buy it to feed their people. Most of the Middle-Eastern and North African nations would rather use the money to fight wars and commit genocide than feed their own people. Maybe the poor are just picky eaters who don't like rice? Besides many nations can sell chickens cheap, but Russia sells AK47s at the same price as a chicken, and governments have to decide between buying their poor a chicken each or arming them as soldiers with AK47s so they can die in a war. The best thing that Russia ever did for the poor in the world was make the efficient AK47 for sale as cheap as a chicken. Hey you might be starving, but at least you got an AK47 from your government and you got drafted to die in a war that your government made against your own people and it is a pointless war, but cheer up you could have been eating a chicken instead, and that Bird Flu is deadly.

The USSR failed because they could not feed their people, they gave the food to their military instead and had long lines of their poor waiting for food and many starved to death. Cuba does very much the same thing. The USSR was lucky at times when the USA cut them wheat deals so they could have fresh bread and not old black bread that was hard as a rock. These and many other facts show that Communism has failed, and Capitalism when mixed with compassion is much better.

Yet when the USA, UK, UN, etc steps in to overthrow governments so the poor can be fed food and have shelter, all of a sudden we are the bad guys.

I mean Communism, run by Radical Atheists have only murdered 300 million people in less than a hundred years, let us give it another chance. [link|http://www.amazon.com/Black-Book-Communism-Crimes-Repression/dp/0674076087|http://www.amazon.co...ion/dp/0674076087]
More than Radical Islam and Radical Christianity have in a hundred years or so.

Castro is a mass murder, but so was Stalin and Mao, but down in their heart of hearts they are good people looking out for the poor of the world, so they can rise up and overthrow their governments. If that means hypocritical propaganda, so be it!

Just ask those Cubian immigrants in Florida why they left Cuba and why they threw a party when they thought Castro was dead. Oh gee, it must have been his humanism and the great deeds he's done for humanity and the world's poor.
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That is the sort of attacks on me that I talked about earlier.

I can see when I start using factual information and back it up with international reports, the personal attacks on me begin again.

I could start to attack back, but I am much better than that. It says more about the characters of the people doing the attacks on me, than whether I am right or wrong.

I disagree, but I refuse to get into a fight about it.

It seems there are two type of people trying to get me into a flamewar:

Those who issue debates on the same argument over and over again.

Then those who do personal attacks on me, after the first set me up for them.

Repeating the same thing over and over again is not only an annoyance attack, it is almost practically brainwashing. Like if I get told the same thing over and over again, maybe I will start to believe it. Like I said I support the right to views and opinions like that, but nobody has the right to shove them down my throat. Todd already did a good job of that, and you just made it worse by basically saying the same thing. Anyway it is a sign of disrespect and it does upset me.

Follow Silverlock's advice and don't bother replying to me. Smartest thing you can do. Don't play a game with me using your friends to goad me into a flamewar, I refuse to enter one. Those days are over. You guys cannot manipulate me into attacking you guys back or go multiple accounts again. I am too smart for that.

Nice try really.

I got family living in Thailand, $60 won't last you a month. Last time I was there we spent $1500 and that was for two weeks in 2000. Now we will be there for a month and we might have to spend more. $60 might have had you living like a King in Thailand 100 years ago for a month, but my wife read that comment and laughed at you. She lived in Thailand for 18 years and knows how hard it is to make ends meet there. Her family struggles and many of them make $100 a month and a teacher makes $200 a month, maybe a manager of a factory makes $300 a month and pooling it all together still requires us to send them at least $200 to $500 a month to support them. Your economics are flawed, Greg, you forget I was in Thailand in 2000 and I got family that lives there.

Nice setup though. The old me would have walked into that trap and joined the others in a name-calling match and enter a flamewar or go multiple. That tactic won't work on the new me. You guys cannot gang up on me like you used to do. Oh sure I take responsibility for the way I reacted, but I was manipulated into that behavior.

Your argument is the same argument that I have debated several times over now with ToddBlanchard. I cite sources from the UN and Amnesty International and other International Reports. See I took International Management in college and I know how to research these things. I graduated with honors. So having your "friends" insult my intelligence and calling me a "tard" or a "troll" won't make me jump through hoops or honk that horn anymore. Orion don't play that way. You bring nothing new to the debate and I can easily debunk what you have posted.

If you want to keep it a honest debate, then fine. Just get the others to stop their attacks on me. I called that one, I really did, I said I would be attacked and I was. I am learning how to predict you guys now, really predictable.

I only seek friendship and information, what I get is something else entirely. I forgive you Greg, and the others. I just ask you all to be more considerate in the future. If I seemed out of line, I apologize for that, it was not my intent.

Perhaps because we only spend money in cases of emergency. That is why we have emergency money and emergency supplies and food.

Health care, yes treat the trauma, because it does not make sense to treat a healthy person for an illness they don't have. Yet I agree we should spend money to prevent the illness in the first place, and that would save money from having to treat it for a lifetime which would cost more.

I suppose it is like putting out a fire, it costs a lot of money to put out a big fire, but the amount of money you spend to try and prevent it would be a lot less than it takes to put it out.