Posted on 10/07/2013 3:52:30 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
On CNN, former tennis player Martina Navratilova praised "one good thing" about growing up under Communism: "we had government health care."
Navratilova slammed those who shut down the government "because we don't want for people to be healthy? We don't want people to be taken care of? It's crazy."
And gulags, Martina! Don’t forget your beloved gulags!
Empty-headed b***h.
Is there a Hall of Fame for great athletes who also are superlatively stupid?
I don’t know why, but I’m continually amazed how extraordinarily simple minded liberals are.
Go live in a commie/totalitarian country - Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Egypt, Venezuela, or try Russia-hear they are really taking care of “your” people now./sarc
..but you didn't have 30-40 million illegals running around your country either didcha?
Been down to the free clinic much, Martina?
Obamacare in the Gulag! Precious.
How ignorant can one jock be?
Why did the commander steal Red October?
His wife died from lack of drugs to treat her illiness
What goods were taken to Russia after the fall of the USSR for favrs for customers?
Baggies with 10 Tylenol purchased in bulk and broken down into packs of 10
>> under Communism: “we had government health care.”
Of course she doesn’t speak to its quality, but draws the essential correlation to Communism.
This IS a good comment for our side.
“Is there a Hall of Fame for great athletes who also are superlatively stupid?”
Athletes and celebrities literally live in another world so different from ours that they see a different reality. I’m sure she had the best free medical care imaginable. But the elderly Russians worked until they couldn’t and then they died.
what an imbecile
Listen Mr. Martina Navratilova, you aren’t even a citizen of the USA. Go back over and find some Wastern European communists paradise.
See you next Tuesday and nothing more.
Actually she is, since the early 80s I believe.
I knew there had to be other reasons why I disliked Navratilova so much. Here again folks is liberal “logic” on display to the fullest. I take it by “we” don’t want to provide healthcare she means evil, icky Republicans. Of course, Republicans want other people to die. It can’t be anything to do with the constitution can it Martina? I’m sure doctors, the majority of whom are conservative, want everybody to die so they don’t have to pay their doctor bills. Because if they’re dead, then doctors don’t get any money from them. Uh, what was your argument again Martina? Hey Martina, do you think we should subsidize everybody? Buy everyone a house, food, clothing, a boat...maybe a pony? Why not?
I never watch CNN, and just some of FOX. Do want to see Megan Kelly’s beginning show tonight at 9 Eastern. Does anyone here have a good link to watch FOX live streaming on line? Thanks!
And I’ll bet they can’t move without having to register with the government like they have to do in Germany.
Did she grow up in the USSR? Was she trained there? If so, wouldn’t she, by virtue of her state approved and sponsored training, lived as an elite in the Soviet system? Meaning she had access to a life very few would have had.
Reminds me of what the liberals used to say, as a joke, about fascist leaders: “But at least the trains run on time.”
What price liberty?
Nonsensical - how exactly does requiring elderly couples to purchase insurance to cover pregnancy and child birth make people more healthy? How does doubling, tripling, etc. people's insurance premiums make them more healthy? How does keeping new medical facilities from being built, and forcing existing ones to scale back, make people more health, take care of them, etc.?
I’ll bet if she had a headache in Russia, she probably wouldn’t be able to find an aspirin.
In retrospect, I should have let that door spring back and hit you in the face, at the Grand Aspen Manor, in March of 1988!
AS long as I can remember we have always had health care, not health insurance for every one..and we still wont have insurance for every one even after Obama care.
What's your definition of elderly? 65 and over is on Medicare.
One too many errant tennis balls to the head, I think ...
What an idiot. SHE had healthcare because she was an athlete, and the communists spent lavishly on athletes even to the extent of turning women into quasi-men). For the common folk, though, healthcare was more often than not a .380 to the back of the neck.
I am so sick of this prevailing argument that americans dont have access to healthcare!! Not only can everyone get it but its world class! Their just pissed that they have to pay for it!!
Should have said “older” couples - i.e. those who are well passed the age they can conceive children.
OK, she got her Czech citizenship back a few years ago, but she didn’t renounce the USA.
No free speech, no freedom of religion, no freedom to protest your government, no guns, no free elections, no choice in where you work, no free markets, but hey, free healthcare!
Sounds like a good trade off.
Communism, the race to the pit of despair. Yeah! Make us the productive miserable and the unproductive even more greedy.
It would seem Martina has never read “Cancer Ward”
by Solzhenitsyn. Ah the joys of government health
care.
true - but those who could get out of Russia for treatment did so.
true - but those who could get out of Russia for treatment did so.
Martina Lesbianova had the best health care her government could provide because she was a world-class athlete. Or maybe she was a world-class athlete because she got the best steroids. But you will notice that as soon as she got the chance to bolt to the west, she did. I guess that great healthcare system wasn’t enough to keep her.
The carpet is always more plush on the other side of the room.
Someone should show that moron the scars that you wind up with after surgery in Chinese state hospitals.
Someone should ask Butch Navratilova what she thinks her life would have been like if she had continued to live under communism. Would she have been able to live the comfortable life America’s freedoms afforded her? How tolerant would her communism have been of alternative lifestyle?
No someone should ask her what level of health care the grunt proletariat gets and just what kind of life she would have had without a talent that was exploitable to enhance the motherland. As my Mother who has some experience with the Russians says, under communism the rich and the upper class are always well cared for but the middle class is constantly diminished.
Navratilova slammed those who shut down the government “because we don’t want for people to be healthy? We don’t want people to be taken care of? It’s crazy.”
Maybe she would prefer if the our government dealt with the problems of the people like Stalin and Lenin did, ruthlessly reduce the population until the problem goes away. All these liberals love communism despite the fact that there is not one place on earth it has worked. A healthy slave is still just a slave!
* 100,000,000 were murdered by communism in the biggest mass slaughters exceeding the sum of all war deaths in history.
Right, forget the fact that Communists killed tens of millions of people in the process .... what a dumb bimbo.
She had prime health care because of her status as a star athlete. I wonder if she would be singing the same tune if she was one of the underclass.
What she didn’t say was that the healthcare was for the elite ... like her not the unwashed masses.
Martin, I suggest you go back to our mother land and receive your operation their.
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