Posted on 01/02/2015 1:01:31 PM PST by Kaslin
Most of you quickly figured out how Obamas new amnesty plan creates more Democratic voters. Did you know his new Cuba policy does too? To wit:
First off, Obama did not lift the Cuba embargo. Instead he further loop holed it with executive orders, a process that started when he first took office. The Helms-Burton Act of 1996, you see, codified some of the vital economic sanctions against Cuba into U.S. law so a full and genuine lifting of the embargo requires a Congressional vote.
But the required votes to lift them are not there. Every year for the past 20 or so the Castro lobby takes a Congressional head count for a lifting, finds it short, and starts lobbying for executive action. With Obama in office the Castro lobby has met with the most success.
The vital codified sanctions prohibit outright tourism to Cuba by U.S. citizens and the purchases of Cuban products by U.S. entities. Obamas relentless loop holing allows almost unlimited cash remittances from people in the U.S. to Cuba plus travel to Cuba for family visits, educational and cultural exchanges and a multitude of other specifically licensed activities under the rubric of people to people travel. This rubrics rationale is to channel the interaction of Americans to the Cuban people, rather than to regime officials.
But amazingly, (except to everyone familiar with Castroism) under this arrangement every American visitor to Cuba is closely chaperoned and mentored by regime officials (tour guides.) These guides (as anyone half-way familiar with communism should know) are tasked by the Stalinist regime with relentlessly evangelizing on the glories of Cubas healthcare, education and on the wickedness of the U.S. blockade blah…blah. As if the visiting Americans dont get enough of that from the U.S. media and their professors.
Bottom line: under Obamas loop holing thus far the cash flow from the U.S. to Cuba (remittances, travel expenses) is estimated at $4 billion annually--whereas during the 1970s The Soviet cash-flow to Cuba was estimated at $3.8 billion annually. And last year well over half a million people visited Cuba from the U.S. --whereas during the 1950s an average of 200,000 people visited Cuba annually from the U.S.
The further loop holing announced last week will license even more forms of non-tourist, people-to-people and educational (i.e. indoctrinating) travel from the U.S. to Cuba and further raise the cap on cash remittances from U.S. citizens and residents to Cuba. Much of the cash making up these remittances, by the way, comes on the U.S. taxpayers dime.
You see, the U.S. issues 20,000 visas to Cubans annually. And amazingly (except to everyone familiar with Castroism) the Castro regime is in charge of which Cubans get them. So Castros apparatchiks make sure to issue the exit permits to the type of refugee who will get to the U.S. via comfy commercial flight and immediately start sending a portion of his U.S. refugee welfare benefits back to his family Cuba, where the regime promptly skims off 20 percent in various transaction fees.
Then the refugees family spends the rest in regime- owned stores or deposits it in the regimes Central Bank, between the refugees frequent visits back to Cuba on the HUGE Obama-opened family-travel loophole. On these frequent visits the refugee spends most of the rest of his U.S. welfare benefits.
In brief the U.S. is issuing refugee visas to Cubans who the Castro regime makes sure arent political refugees by any stretch of the term. Then the U.S. pays these de-facto regime-collaborators refugee welfare benefits which mostly benefit the Stalinist regime. The entire time these refugees are automatically on the fast track to U.S. citizenship..
So has the mainstream media informed you that among the most notorious Welfare Queens under Obamas almost universally hailed (especially by taxpayer champions like Jeff Flake and Rand Paul)) are the Castro brothers? Didnt think so.
And youll never guess which political party these regime-sanctioned Cuban immigrants to the U.S. tend to vote for after their fast track-to U.S. citizenship. For a good clue think typical Hispanic voter. Nice work if you can get it, Castro snickers.
Interestingly its Republican Cuban-American legislators themselves who exposed this racket and want it corrected.
Over at The Huffington Post a Cuba-expert and prominent member of the Castro-lobby named Arturo Lopez-Levi quickly mounted an attack against this Republican initiative to expose this Casrtroite scam. Needless to add Lopez-Levi is beside himself with glee over Obamas latest executive order on Cuba.
But in fact this gentlemans real name is Arturo Lopez-Callejas. Hes a former Cuban intelligence analyst who is also Raul Castros nephewin-law. His first cousin, Maj. Luis Alberto Rodriguez Lopez-Callejas, owns Cubas tourism industry. These fully-documented items, needless to add, are never made explicit either in the Huffington Post, The New York Times, CNN or the multitude of other media outlet who frequently quote Lopez-Levis expertise.
Meanwhile the U.S. Coast Guard intercepts desperate half-dead Cubans on rafts in the Florida straits (i.e. genuine anti-communist refugees) and returns them to Castro, where many are promptly jailed.
The above explains why after Obamas latest executive actions the Castro regime is jubilant, and Cubas dissidents and democracy activists overwhelmingly despondent (as recognized even by the New York Times!)
Is that the Castro brothers of Cuba or the Castro brothers from San Antonio?
I know there is not much difference, but we must know...
You’re hilarious
Yep, that’s what I was thinking.
That were my thoughts exactly. What the hell are the brothers from San Antonio up to this time.
The vital codified sanctions prohibit outright tourism to Cuba by U.S. citizens and the purchases of Cuban products by U.S. entities. Obama's relentless loop holing allows almost unlimited cash remittances from people in the U.S. to Cuba plus travel to Cuba for family visits, educational and cultural exchanges and a multitude of other specifically licensed activities under the rubric of "people to people" travel. This rubric's rationale is to channel the interaction of Americans to the Cuban people, rather than to regime officials.When the occasional American has visited in the past, the Cuban official processing them in would often just stamp a piece of paper and paperclip it to the passport, so it could be removed before the tourist returned to the 'States.
[snip] Over at The Huffington Post a "Cuba-expert" and prominent member of the Castro-lobby named "Arturo Lopez-Levi" quickly mounted an attack against this Republican initiative to expose this Casrtroite scam. Needless to add Lopez-Levi is beside himself with glee over Obama's latest executive order on Cuba... real name is Arturo Lopez-Callejas. He's a "former" Cuban intelligence analyst who is also Raul Castro's nephewâin-law. His first cousin, Maj. Luis Alberto Rodriguez Lopez-Callejas, owns Cuba's tourism industry. These fully-documented items, needless to add, are never made explicit either in the Huffington Post, The New York Times, CNN or the multitude of other media outlet who frequently quote "Lopez-Levi's" "expertise." [/snip]
Know the San Antonio Castro’s well.
This is the same process used from the dope from hope.
The “First Wave” came in the 1960’s.
Most of the "First Wave" were Cuban business owners or professionals, most of them traced their ancestors to Europe, and most of them were overwhelmingly Republican and anti-Communist.
The “Second Wave” is overwhelmingly Hispanic or African, they have limited education and limited skills, and they are overwhelmingly Democrats.
Check out the Cuban voting precincts in New Jersey and metropolitan New York City if you want to see how the “Second Wave” votes.
Comrade Obama to the rescue Of the Cuban communist regime. Obama's goal is that the American taxpayers keep afloat the Cuban regimen by playing the sugar daddy role previously played by the Soviet Union and later by Venezuela, UNTIL BOTH WENT BROKE. Thanks to Obama, Flake will see his dreams come true.
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