Posted on 05/26/2017 5:37:25 AM PDT by Kaslin
Expedia is now booking hotels in Cuba.
American Airlines is flying American tourists from Miami to Havana.
For more than a year American-owned cruise lines have been hauling U.S. citizens by the thousands to the Castro Brothers' beautiful socialist paradise 90 miles off the tip of Florida.
Thanks to President Obama's decision to liberalize relations with Cuba in 2015, the island is now open to direct visits by American tourists.
I can't believe how excited so many Americans are to get a chance to see some '57 Chevies and Buicks and visit a country that has been wrecked and essentially frozen in time by a dictatorship since JFK was president.
I'd love to see Cuba too. Its people, culture and beaches are beautiful. Its pre-Fidel history and Spanish heritage are rich.
My wife is in the travel business, so I could go on a cruise to Havana for peanuts anytime I wanted.
But as long as Raul Castro and the other thugs in the Communist Party remain in power in Cuba, I promise I'll never go there.
Half a century of Castros-style Communism turned Cuba into a backward, open-air gulag that American liberals unconditionally adored or made excuses for because everyone in the country got free education and free health care.
Meanwhile, it didn't matter to most liberals that Cubans were also kept dirt poor and had no free speech, no free vote, no free press or access to the Internet, no freedom to start a business and no freedom to travel.
Since the Obama Administration's liberalization efforts and the invasion of American tourists, things have not improved for the average Cuban.
Their country is still run by a socialist communist dictatorship and they're still third-class citizens.
They still can't go to the fine tourist hotels or pricy tourist shops. They can't go to the tourist beaches. They sure can't afford a new car or even a motorbike on their $25 a month, which is about the national average income.
To this day, Cuba's oppressive government continues to treat 11 million human beings like animals in a rundown socialist zoo.
And if you go there as a tourist from New York or London, all you're doing is putting hard currency into the coffers of Raul and the other zookeepers.
The Americans who cruise to Cuba with their dollars and debit cards don't understand, or don't care, that they are propping up a despotic government, and the liberal and conservative media aren't making a stink about it.
You'd think the free Cuban community in Florida would be making a bigger deal out of American tourist money being used to keep their family members in a large cage called Cuba.
But they aren't saying much, either.
As for me, I will never visit Cuba until its people are truly free. I hope it doesn't take too long.
But until I can go to Havana, befriend an ordinary Cuban and be able to buy him a plane ticket so he can visit me in Southern California, I won't spend a dime to help pay for the upkeep of the Castro Brothers' human zoo.
bammy’s deal with Cuba was all advantage to the castros, and none to the country that bammy betrayed.
But Americans will flock down there, cheap cigars, cheap rum, cheap hookers....
CUBA is the HOLLYWOOD and DEMOCRAT fantasy island.
I won tickets through work for Alaska Airlines, anywhere they go. One place is Cuba. We’ve heard the hotels nor much else is even ready for tourists yet so we aren’t going there needless to say.
Why would any A,erican spend money for the benefit of this organized crime ring?
People convince themselves that it’s okay to go there, because they think their money is helping to support the poor people. That’s what the msm is trying to spread.
If Big Media ever posted the TRUTH about Socialism and Communism, Capitalism would rise again. I used to work with a woman who lived in the USSR. Everybody worked for the ‘Government’ and the ‘Government’ gave everybody an allowance. You had to wait in line for food, and clothing was extremely expensive. Socialism allows people to work for their own wages, but the People are then taxed at sky high rates to equalize the outcomes (when I was working at the NHS in Britain, I was making peanuts, but was taxed at 50%, the lowest tax rate then) No value on different jobs. And the ‘free’ health care and the ‘free’ food? All paid for by taxes on ALL the people, including the working poor. No thanks.
Yes, and instead they cause inflationary prices in staples and food so that the locals can’t afford even what they previously could.
Some thirty years ago, an acquaintance who had lived in communist Czechoslovakia related that the people tuned out the party news propaganda in newspapers and TV. Everyone knew everything they read or watched was fake news.
I was reminded of that today, when Rush said much the same thing, that there is nothing to learn from 99% of what passes for news.
Incredible. A free press serves as the broadcast arm of oppression.
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