Thanks to Obama's generosity, American taxpayers will keep afloat the Cuban Stalinist regime.
Posted on 02/03/2015 10:00:28 AM PST by John Semmens
Saying that President Obama’s apology for 50 years of aggression, discrimination, and abuse of his country by the United States government “was a good start,” current Cuban dictator Raul Castro demanded further concessions as the price for normalizing relations between Cuba and the US.
First on Castro’s list was compensation for the economic damage done to Cuba by the US trade embargo. “Prior to this embargo Cubans had the highest standard of living in Latin America,” Castro pointed out. “Now, Cubans are worse off than any country in the western hemisphere.”
Castro called upon President Obama to “use his executive powers to seize the undeserved wealth hoarded by American capitalists and use it to make reparations for the wrongs committed by his predecessors.”
A second grievance cited by Castro was the US policy of admitting Cuban refugees into the United States. “Cubans belong to Cuba,” Castro maintained. “They have obligations to the collective well-being of their countrymen. They have no right to evade these obligations. Their escape to America is selfish. The United States government has the responsibility to return these refugees and their offspring to Cuba so they may begin making amends for their sins.”
A third grievance was Castro’s objection to his country’s inclusion on a list of nations sponsoring terrorists. “We sponsor those fighting on behalf of the revolution,” Castro argued. “The enemies of the revolution are powerful. Directly confronting the armed forces of the United States would invite annihilation. This forces revolutionaries to select soft targets. They should not be labeled ‘terrorists’ for sensibly targeting unarmed civilians.”
US Secretary of State John Kerry acknowledged that “the Cuban government has made a persuasive case. There is no doubt in my mind that the people of Cuba have been grievously wronged by US policy over the years. I can’t say that we can grant all the demands President Castro has made, but we do promise to look into what form of compensation we may be able to make to help indemnify them for the suffering we imposed.”
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Thanks to Obama's generosity, American taxpayers will keep afloat the Cuban Stalinist regime.
Obama will choke on that Cuban Cigar
“They should not be labeled ‘terrorists’ for sensibly targeting unarmed civilians.”
Umm, In my opinion, that is the very definition of a terrorist... Seems like a swell guy to do business with. We might not be able to give him back all of his Cubans but do you think he would settle for a few million illegal Mexicans and a mother-in-law?
and he wanted 500 lbs of red-only M&M’s
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