I was listening to the news on the radio the other day and I heard that people are all mad about the enemies of our country and way of life currently being housed with our tax dollars at tropical Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, would be getting the H1N1 virus vaccinations even before many citizens of the U.S. get theirs.
Across the country, health care providers are dealing with an unacceptable shortage of vaccine to combat the new pandemic causing virus reported to be as much as 75 percent below expected available doses. Not even the demographics that are most at risk—young children, pregnant women—can get the shot in most places, but the terrorists at Gitmo are going to get theirs.
The funny thing is that a good many people who are up in arms over our enemies getting the shots before many American citizens are the same ones who have been raising hell about the poor terrorists not being treated well and how we should bring them to the continental United States, give them all the rights citizens have and so on.
Well here’s your chance to put your tree-hugging, peace-loving principals to work for real and support shots for Gitmo detainees.
It isn’t like they aren’t getting top-notch service now. I mean, they are in better shape than the 20 percent of Americans (around 47 million people) who are without healthcare, and don’t even get me started on dental care. But with over 143 million Americans having no dental coverage (2.8 times the number medically uninsured), I’m starting to think that it is more beneficial to be the enemy of this country than to be a citizen.
Hey look, I’m on the side of the folks who don’t think we should needlessly torture (yes, I call it what it is) these twerps no matter how much better it makes us feel, after we have rung out all useful information that is. I’m even all right with not keeping them at Gitmo, except for the really bad ones.
Hey they were dumb enough to get caught, I say send them on back to the caves so that they can miss the infidel’s prison camp with the clean water, toilet paper and freshly prepared food where they are living better than the 12.5 percent of Americans (37.3 million people) who live in abject poverty in this country everyday.
But it’s the shots that are making people mad. Prison populations and kindergartens are breeding grounds for diseases, and if the plan really is going to be to bring these scumbags here to put them on trial, probably with capital punishment off the table, then we need to be sure they aren’t carrying any nasty little bugs that could really cause an outbreak.
You know, there might be one other option. Just follow me here. We always hear how good the health care system is in Cuba. They have been keeping Brother Fidel going like a Walt Disney animatronic president much longer than should be natural, so they must know something useful. Okay here goes, Cuba hates us, at least their government does, and they have this reportedly great healthcare; the terrorists hate us and by all indications need great healthcare, that they have gotten up ‘till now from us. Why not put the two together? Just open the North gate and push them on through. The Castro boys will get new America hating allies, the America hating allies get that great Cuban healthcare and semi-freedom. We get to close Gitmo and stop the drain on the national treasury, thereby freeing up money to finance a national healthcare program. Everybody wins!
