Posted on 12/17/2014 9:20:17 PM PST by MplsSteve
Is normalizing relations with Cuba a good idea?
Yes.
No.
Not sure. We'll see how it plays out.
No. 42.05%
Yes. 41.67%
3:37 am CST Return To Poll
The embargo isn’t the problem. Cuba and Cubans have no money to buy anything in the first place from us or from anybody else. Castro has turned a formerly prosperous country into a place of near starvation, where he “allows” the average people to have two eggs a week.
I was at a shipping company that sends stuff to Cuba (gifts from family members, which are permitted) and several people there were holding bags of that Latin American expresso coffee that is sold in bricks. These were Christmas presents for relatives...but no individual in Cuba was allowed to receive more than two pounds of it, at the orders of the Cuban government. (Remember that Cuba used to produce coffee...) So the embargo isn’t the problem, it’s the cruel dictatorship, which is going to remain in place and be even stronger now.
4:38AM Central:
- NO 43.86%
- YES 40.22%
- Not sure 15.92%
Keep on!!
Freeped.
Freeped, still needs help tho....
No: 45.23
Yes: 39.34
Wait and see: 15.43
Only Kirk could go to the Klingon homeworld.
Well, how about a poll that asks, “What difference does it make?”
We the people will not be able to stop what the Soros Administration has put in motion. I can only imagine all of the fat cat Rat donors who are salivating at the prospect of developing vacation destinations in Cuba. I can see the commercials already.
I wonder if that pickers show has started filming their guys up to their eyeballs in the vintage cars that the Cubans use every day. Maybe the pawn guy will open a branch office in Havana. How many Hollywood studios have signed contracts already with the Cuban regime for filming in paradise?
No. 49.25%
Yes. 36.81%
Not sure. We’ll see how it plays out. 13.94%
North Korea has survived by criminal activity and by marketing terror and nuclear weapons for extorting huge sums of money from the US and the international community.
Cuba has barely survived by tourism, hand outs from Venezuela and from money sent from the United States by Cuben Americans to help support they relatives.
North Korea would have collapsed in the 1990s if Clinton had not started the cycle of nuclear extortion where we constantly pay North Korea massive sums money to stop work on their Nuclear weapons program and they take the money to float their economy and fund their nuclear programs to keep the extortion shell game going.
Change needs to come to Cuba, but as long as the Castro's and communist dictatorship are still in power nothing will change in either country.
Until the current regime is gone and replaced , any American assistance will simply be used to enrich the Castro power structure and perpetuate the faltering regime while keeping the Cuban people locked in it's Castro induced poverty.
Obama is enabling the perpetuation of the Castro regime with his Cuba Policy
No. 49.4%
Yes. 36.71%
Not sure. We’ll see how it plays out. 13.89%
No. 49.61%
Yes. 36.52%
Not sure. We’ll see how it plays out. 14%
No. 49.67%
Yes. 36.3%
Not sure. We’ll see how it plays out. 14.03%
I’m old enough to remember a USA that had good jobs in every community. We made stuff. We had a tax base instead of a giveaway program for those at the bottom and more outrageously those who own our pols on TOP..
We have our own commies that pushed their globalist agendas, open borders, gun control, diversity. Many were behind the policy that represented 40 yrs of free unbalanced trade with their Chicom friends and others. They waltzed away with bailouts and spoils of public assets and did great harm to the USA.
Compared to the harm that has already been done to the USA, Cuba is not that significant to me. Be assured a few connected people will make money while screwing America.. They’ll convince pols to give Cuba billions in aid for their crony friends.
Making deals with serial killers and tyrants usually results in nothing good. Now, let me be clear, putting a .308 soft point between castro’s eyes would be a good deal.
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