Boston Globe: Cuba's lessons on caring for children (Barf Alert)

Boston Globe ^ | March 11, 2002 | Larry Fish, Michael Yogman, Lou Casagrande

[Cincinatus' Wife]

IF THERE IS one society in North or South America where President Bush's goal to leave no child behind is a reality, it can be found in Cuba, 90 miles off the Florida coast in one of the few remaining communist states in the world. That is the conclusion of 24 Bostonians who just returned from a week in Cuba where we focused on how Cuba raises and nurtures its kids.

[f.Christian]

The blowhard---thanks to his ego--Elian escapade...Bush is president!

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Children's Code--[Excerpt] At the heart of the issue is Cuba's steadfast portrayal of itself as a society in which ''normality" for its 11 million people, especially children, means support for Castro's ruling Communist Party. Article 3 of the legal Children's Code, calls on ''society and the state [to] work for the efficient protection of youth against all influences contrary to their communist formation." [End Excerpt]

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Back to the "Peaceable" Paradise: Media Soldiers for the Seizure of Elian -Media Research Center Special Report

[DB]

Let's hope it can and that as more Americans visit Cuba's shores, we can learn something from the Cubans - about how to raise our kids here, how to instill in them self-respect and cultural pride, and how to give all of them a chance to be happy, creative, and productive adults.

IE. Slaves.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Excerpted from Hillary Clinton and the Racial Left [Excerpt] Ever since abandoning the utopian illusions of the progressive cause, I have been struck by how little the world outside the left seems to actually understand it. How little those who have not inhabited the progressive mind are able to grasp the ruthless cynicism behind its idealistic mask or the fervent malice that drives its hypocritical passion for "social justice."

No matter how great the crimes progressives commit, no matter how terrible the future they labor to create, no matter how devastating the catastrophes they leave behind, the world outside the faith seems ever ready to forgive them their "mistakes" and to grant them the grace of "good intentions." [End Excerpt]-David Horowitz

[Cincinatus' Wife]

IE. Slaves.

Bump!

[dighton]

Useful Idiot alert.

[bleudevil]

Gee, American children sure are deprived. After all, there are no children's museums, YMCAs, Boy Scouts, 4-H, Little League, church youth groups, Young Audiences, etc. here in America. We should be more like Cuba. Let's go stand in line for milk right now.

[oldironsides]

Castro is a billionaire. He took land and property belonging to others. He keeps his people fed and gives free medical care. He also keeps them in an island pen under supervision. My dog gets free medical care and food. I keep him close to home and do not allow him to roam. The Cuban people are happy being kept by a master?

[Boston Capitalist]

If Cuba has left no chidren behind, it is because the whole country has stayed behind.

[backhoe]

I read this, this insanity and I want to tear my hair out- like the utterly fraudulent and specious claims about the "fine, free medical care available to all in the Workers' Paradise...."

It is bilge like this that aids Castro in his stranglehold on Cuba. These people are enablers of the worst stripe- I wonder if they would care to live in Cuba, not as one of the elite, but as a common citizen?

[nickcarraway]

Am I hallucinating or did I just read this article? I guess the U.S. should beg Castro to be our new leader, so that we too can live in paradise. This writer is either completely disingenous or Cuba is able to make far better Potemkin villages then I thought possible. Does the author remember a couple years ago when children who were being made to protest against the U.S. for Elian Gonzalez starting chanting, ``Elian send us a coat.''

[Cincinatus' Wife]

The price of milk (and sex) in Cuba

[Cincinatus' Wife]

I read this, this insanity and I want to tear my hair out-

Am I hallucinating or did I just read this article?

I had to pick myself up off the floor.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

If Cuba has left no chidren behind, it is because the whole country has stayed behind.

Bump!

[nickcarraway]

I can't help but think of Horowitz's friend Ron Radosh's trip to Cuba. Yes, the one were they tried to teach him the difference between socialist and capitalist lobotomies.

we can learn something from the Cubans - about how to raise our kids here, how to instill in them self-respect and cultural pride, and how to give all of them a chance to be happy, creative, and productive adults.

Yes, if we want those results, do the opposite of Cuba. Has this guy heard of Armando Valladeres, Noble Alexander, et al?

[nickcarraway]

Just wondering: Am I the only U.S. citizen that hasn't been to Cuba this year, or does it just seem that way?

[TxBec]

Let's hope it can and that as more Americans visit Cuba's shores, we can learn something from the Cubans - about how to raise our kids here, how to instill in them self-respect and cultural pride, and how to give all of them a chance to be happy, creative, and productive adults.

Uh... I'm doing that now without any "inspiration" from Cuba

[Cincinatus' Wife]

I wonder if they would care to live in Cuba, not as one of the elite, but as a common citizen?

Oh no, they don't want to be one of the masses they want to be like the Kennedys.