Trump in DC Putin in the Kremlin Both Take Care of Their Own
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| Moscow’s Central Clinic Hospital has extensive grounds. A helicopter landing pad is to be built there this year. REUTERS |
As Millions demonstrate against Trump’s presidency with his filling the White House Cabinets and the most important positions in the executive branch with billionaires and truly swamp politicians which are Trump’s backers, Putin in Russia is taking care of his backers.. In the US Trump is rewarding his backers with positions that usually go to (yes, true) backers of the President but at least they tend to be qualified in those positions.
How can the head of the Energy Department not know what the dept. does? To top it all off in the past (Perry) for just showmanship and political positioning promised to abolish it. trump is giving Positions of Civil rights to candidates that have been proponents that gays should be locked up or worse. I know Trump would say that they don’t longer believe in those extreme things but all you have to do is ask them and you will be convinced they have no love for civil rights as we were taught in school.
While we have all these stories happening since the inauguration, this blog decided to not let a story that VISE published over this weekend to go too unnoticed. It has to do with Trump but in a very indirect way. Instead is about someone Trump said he admires, yes you guess is Putin.
I am afraid that as Putin rewards his top people Trump has been doing the same thing in Washington DC. There is no congress or oversight in Russia but the same in Washington since the majority belongs to the same party. They are the one Trump called the swamp. The same swamp he has been picking out candidates to help him run the country. How about the Media, well not in Russia because is controled byMoscow. How about in the USA? So far it has been a fight right now for survival and to keep it free and independent.
This is why there is no free media in Russia and that is precisely why Trump is yelling and screaming about ours. Instead of letting the Press be the Press and if they report incorrectly open up and show the truth; Trump instead is trying to scared the Press to not report all the times there are negative stuff about him(Trump). He’s been described as a bully and nothing fits him better. Yell, yells, yells. No occasion is too sacred for him wether is the inauguration speech or the yelling he did at CIA headquarters. But like all bully’s he does it because people allow him and because like all bully’s he has backers. Bully’s can’t operate in a vacuum. They operate and yell and scream to the delight of their audience who yells back, “Kill, Kill!”
Now what is Putin up to now?
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Vladimir Putin is backing a $48 million health clinic dedicated to senior Kremlin officials and elites in the Russian president’s retinue, a Reuters investigation reported Thursday. The opulent healthcare clinic will open in Moscow at a time when Russian healthcare is in crisis and the disparity in the quality of medical care for Russian oligarchs vs. the country’s ordinary citizens continues to widen.
Russia ranked 119th out of 188 countries in an assessment of the health-related Sustainable Development Goals published in the Lancet medical journal, trailing countries with significantly lower GDP, like Samoa and Tajikistan. And Russia doesn’t fare so well when it comes to life expectancy either: It declined sharply after the fall of the Soviet Union, from 68.4 years in 1991 to 65 years in 2003. Although it’s risen since to 70.46, according to most recent data collected by the World Bank, it still falls below the world average of 71.5.
In April 2015, the Moscow Times reported that between 2005 and 2013, the number of health facilities in rural areas of Russia dropped 75 percent, from 8,249 to 2,085.
“That number includes a 95 percent drop in the number of district hospitals, from 2,631 to only 124, and a 65 percent decline in the number of local health clinics, from 7,404 to 2,561,” the article noted.
Gennady Gudkov, a prominent Putin critic and retired KGB colonel, described the state of Russian healthcare as “tragic.”
“There is outdated and often nonfunctioning equipment, a lack of medicines and hospital beds, and a shortage of medical specialists,” he told Newsweek in November.
The move reflects a concerted effort from the Kremlin to maintain the comfort of elite Russians who find themselves isolated from certain customary luxuries in the wake of crippling sanctions and travel bans instituted by Western governments following Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014, according to Reuters.
The new wing may come to be the latest symbol of Russia’s unparalleled divide between its ultra-wealthy and the rest of the country. A 2016 wealth report by Credit Suisse stated that those in the country’s top 10 percent owned nearly 90 percent of all household wealth in Russia.
“This is significantly higher than any other major economic power,” the report stated. “According to our estimates, inequality in Russia is so far above the others that it deserves to be placed in a separate category,” the report added.
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