Posted on 05/04/2017 4:45:32 AM PDT by cll
Edited on 05/04/2017 4:54:23 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
I know a woman who just got back from a visit to Cuba. She is a minister, and went for a “women in the ministry” conference. She said that she had never seen so much complete poverty in her whole life. The building where she was staying had running water, and they offered access to the water to the neighbors. She also mentioned how you can’t flush your toilet paper there. She said that the sewers, plumbing, and infrastructure were generally non-functional. Crumbling building, Crumbling roads. No incentive for people to fix anything. Also, there is a drought, so few crops and more starvation.
I have spoken with 2 Canadians who went there. They were not impressed.
One said a local man approached him on the beach, said he was starving and begged him to get him some food from the hotel buffet.
The allure of Cuba was mainly from leftists romanticizing socialismus...
That’s what Cuba needs! A boatload of Freepers to go there and set them straight on a few things
I just want to go largemouth bass fishing there before I die. Right now I’ve been told, there is an eight month wait for a travel permit.
Yes, what you said. I have liberal relatives who went there, due to 0bama was promoting visits to Cuba.
I know some people like that, and their other motivation is travel snobbery, being able to work the latest greatest destination into a conversation later. Even if the truth on the ground is not quite so glamorous.
Every tourist dollar spent in Cuba goes directly to the Castro regime.
“””their other motivation is travel snobbery,”””
You must know my brother-in-law.
My BIL has not traveled outside of the USA in more than 20 years until he spent two weeks in Cuba during December 2016.
Oh yeah, did I mention he is a leftist!!!!!
Christian Cubans are hungry for Bibles. I’m going to work on getting my church to send them some.
They legalised it so, it’s no longer interesting...
Fifty years after the Castro took power they still can't make their communist "La Rev-o-l-o-o-cion" work.
“She said that she had never seen so much complete poverty in her whole life.”
There are many people in real poverty who would thing those conditions are akin to Paradise ...
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