Posted on 08/28/2009 9:25:44 AM PDT by AlmaKing
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Will this help or hurt the actual people of Cuba?
Comments?
It will (GREATLY) help the forces of darkness that have ruled that island for 50 years.Therefore it will hurt Cuba's people.
How much Toilet paper can I bring? $100 a roll should make the trip worth while.
Why not demand travel to North Korea as well?
Americans go to Cuba all the time. Try going to North Korea, I am sure they would get a kick out of it.
Will that bill give Cubans the right to travel around the world too?
Will that bill give Cubans the right to travel around the world too?
Unless they're "licensed" (doesn't always actually require actual paperwork) to spend small amounts of money because their travel is for religious, educational, etc reasons.
Perhaps it's a distinction without a difference. But, despite many saying otherwise, the U.S. Govt can not prosecute you for merely traveling to Cuba.
It will hurt the people of Cuba greatly.
Remember that Cuba has no commerce —
it’s all owned by the government, so all the money you pay
to a hotel or restaurant is going directly to the dictatorship.
I will never buy travel on Cheap Tickets ag ain.
Great question, and the answer, of course, is NO.
Cubans need an exit visa to LEAVE THEIR OWN COUNTRY.
Will that bill give Cubans the right to travel around the world too
Cubans need an exit visa and they also need family members for their own government to hold hostage to ensure their return
This is also supported by Orbitz.
Guaranteeing I will never buy another ticket from Orbitz again.
Well, I most certainly do not like Zer0’s proclamation a few months ago to allow ONLY the American families of Cuban nationals to travel to Cuba.
I seem to recall that we have these things in America called “the rule of law” and “the equal protection of law”.
Of course you would not expect an “esteemed professor of Constitutional law” such as Zer0 to know about those maxims.
/semi-sarc
Americans today have the right to travel to any country in the world except Cuba.So what do we need to go to Cuba for? What a bunch of Commies.
There is no reason to spend US dollars in a country that wants to see us fall, is there?
This begs the question as to how the Congressional Black Caucus was permitted to visit Cuba earlier this year to hobnob with Castro and friends. The guess here is that the travel restriction doesn't apply if you're a black congressional Democrat!
Isn’t Congresswoman Maximum Waters supporting a wanted cop killer in Cuba? There was a letter posted here a couple of years ago. She wrote to Castro asking him not to extradite.
Yes, I’m going to dump them also.
I have a liberal friend from college who just salivated over the idea of going to Cuba. I’m scratching my head thinking ‘why would you want to go to a dump?’ and ‘why would you want to just give your money to the dictatorship?’. Ok, so there might be some good beaches and hotels there, but they are still propped up by the gov’t and the people are forced into poverty.
Liberal thinking just makes no sense to me.
In the halycon (or was it “Hellspawned”?) 1970s, Americans traveled to Cuba via third countries (usually Mexico); the Cubans processing their arrival would stamp a separate slip of paper (showing they’d been processed in and were in the country legally) and paperclip it to their passports, so the visitors could avoid trouble when they got back to the US customs. Unless someone there found the cigars of course. ;’)
Are you stupid?
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