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Free - like it was something that we were giving to Weapons Makers, Big Corporations, Billionaires, the Pentagon, CIA, or Police... Free - because since you (and all of your productive labor) are ALREADY collateral on the Federal debt, since the 1933 bankruptcy and reorganization, it makes more economic sense to keep you healthy and housed, rather than incapacitated, and/or infectious, and living under a bridge, with no job... Trust me. The costs of an unhealthy, UnHoused, uneducated population, are higher than a society which doesn't have all of those problems. That's why, as impoverished as we've worked so hard, and spent trillions on trying to make them...the Cubans still find the ways to do those things, for THEIR people.

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I'm certain all the people living under bridges would magically all have jobs and productive lives if only...what exactly? There are a million jobs available right now but no one is taking them, certainly not the under-the-bridge dwellers.

And ask yourself again, why do Cuban Americans vote overwhelmingly Republican?

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Because they're The kind of empathy bereft quislings that were overthrown by the Cuban Revolution. They're properly known as "Gusanos" amongst the actual Cuban people, and those who stand with them.

As for the people living under the bridges, nobody will hire you, without an address, and a way to show up to work, clean and in washed clothes. What rationalizations do you use to help explain the sudden rise in the UnHoused population, caused by the degenerative disease of late capitalism? Have mental illness and addiction just suddenly boomed, inexplicably?

Certainly the CIA controlled drug trade has SOMETHING to do with it... But the reality is one dominated by economic factors, and profit-driven speculation. For EVERY UnHoused man, woman, child or family unit - there are at least two empty dwellings available, usually not too far away.

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Most of the Cubans that came here were oligarchs before Castro took over and they’re still bitter about losing their banana republic plantation wealth.

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Bingo! And the greedy and self-centered are actively encouraged to follow, and then join-up with the contras in Miami.

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