Obama Closes Summit, Vows Broader Engagement With Latin America - washingtonpost.com
In this article, 5th paragraph the line states that President Obama " felt the United States could learn a lesson from Cuba, which for decades has sent doctors to other countries throughout Latin America to care for the poor." So apparently apparently the US needs to learn that rather than the thousands of volunteers, we need to curtail our efforts and make it mandatory for top doctors to win us geo-political support. Stupid doctors who volunteer...
Seriously, the IMB, Samaritan's Purse, and Doctor's Without Borders all export VOLUNTEER doctors in vast numbers. These people sacrifice their financial abilities, earning no pay beyond what support they get (which is no more than the lay, untrained man with a hammer) to use their years of expensive study to simply aid others. Added to that, often these missionaries go with no compensation and at their own expense! Now, I don't know about you, but to me that seems to be a larger amount of compassion and caring than state funded doctor's drawing a salary as they go over seas. Added to that, private practice physicians have to pay staff while they are paying their way.
Shame on you, Mr. Obama, for disparaging those who sacrifice so much. Medical missions is just one of a plethora of foreign aid put out by private individuals. Step back from your socialist agenda for a moment and see what good the free market has had. Yes, greed can abound and people do run around using their wealth to their own selfishness, but that happens in socialism to. What is more interesting is the huge amount of aid, both financial and service based, that the US sends over seas. Learn to see what Americans do, and then think about whether we should embrace a political gambit that would actually lower our aid to others.
In this article, 5th paragraph the line states that President Obama " felt the United States could learn a lesson from Cuba, which for decades has sent doctors to other countries throughout Latin America to care for the poor." So apparently apparently the US needs to learn that rather than the thousands of volunteers, we need to curtail our efforts and make it mandatory for top doctors to win us geo-political support. Stupid doctors who volunteer...
Seriously, the IMB, Samaritan's Purse, and Doctor's Without Borders all export VOLUNTEER doctors in vast numbers. These people sacrifice their financial abilities, earning no pay beyond what support they get (which is no more than the lay, untrained man with a hammer) to use their years of expensive study to simply aid others. Added to that, often these missionaries go with no compensation and at their own expense! Now, I don't know about you, but to me that seems to be a larger amount of compassion and caring than state funded doctor's drawing a salary as they go over seas. Added to that, private practice physicians have to pay staff while they are paying their way.
Shame on you, Mr. Obama, for disparaging those who sacrifice so much. Medical missions is just one of a plethora of foreign aid put out by private individuals. Step back from your socialist agenda for a moment and see what good the free market has had. Yes, greed can abound and people do run around using their wealth to their own selfishness, but that happens in socialism to. What is more interesting is the huge amount of aid, both financial and service based, that the US sends over seas. Learn to see what Americans do, and then think about whether we should embrace a political gambit that would actually lower our aid to others.
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