Reply #132: Shades of Barbara Ehrenreich's _Nickled and Dimed_ [View All]

[Mairead]

As the editorialist at the New England Journal of Medicine remarks, "What an irony that poor Cuba is training doctors for rich America, engaging in affirmative action on our behalf and -- while blockaded by U.S. ships and sanctions -- spending its meager treasure to improve the health of U.S. citizens.

But that's the US Capitalist way, as Ehrenreich documented: those of us who live well do so on the backs of the poor, who are preferably kept somewhere out of sight so we can pretend they're not there and we're not exploiting them.