Posted on 07/17/2004 4:21:59 PM PDT by MadIvan
Why the heck can't they feed themselves? Cuba is warm and gets plenty of rain; most crops should grow like weeds there. They are surrounded by an ocean teeming with fish.
Oh, yeah; it's the communism thing. No incentive to produce, and if you let them out in a fishing boat they won't come back!
How much do you want to bet that Castro's family and his troops have a surplus of food and other things.
That's right. Americans have to first go to Canada or someplace that has travel connections To Cuba.
That's so naive.
The true travel restrictions are imposed by Castro; what makes you think that the man who does not allow American television, radio, or access to the Internet for the Island's inhabitants, would just sinmply allow thousands of Americans unrestricted access to the Island?
You're starting to read like DU.
"Several"?
MOST of the people down here approve of the restrictions.
Who imposes the harshest travel restrictions on its citizens...Cuba, or the U.S.?
Why don't you inform yourself before making such absolutely erroneous statements?
| This web page is set up with the restrictions and warnings to Americans in traveling around the world. The following 7 countries NO American can travel to or from unless they have a rarely granted permit. |
|---|
| Cuba. |
| Iran. |
| Iraq. |
| Libya. |
| North Korea. |
| Serbia. |
| Sudan. |
There are only "several" who Bush listens to.
I'm not too sure "most" Miami Cubans approve of the new restrictions.
Obviously Cuba imposes harsher restrictions. After all, they're a police state.
Well, I am sure.
Yeah, I'm not defending the Castro regime.
I was just there. These people are ready to revolt. They just need a little push, and to see that Americans aren't teh big bad boogy men Castro tells them we are.
So, what you are saying here is than in an election year, in a key State, with a close race, Bush would listen to a few hardliners, and risk pissing off the many voters?
Yeah, right...
Americans ARE allowed to travel to each of those countries, except for Cuba.
Source: The US Department of State. Just look at each country page on their website. It will tell you what the travel requirements are.
You may not be defending it, but you're supporting it.
I believe that's what he is doing.
I know one of those hardliners who pushed Bush to impose the new restrictions, and now regrets it because he knows it's bad, counter-productive policy.
You don't read very well...do you?
I am an American, and the restrictions imposed on my ability to travel to Iran are more severe than the ones imposed on me to travel to Cuba.
No, I wasn't supporting it.
Tourist dollars are causing a lot of corruption in the regime.
The more, the better.
So, your knowledge of what the many think is based on the opinion of the one?
Why dso you have to be such an asshole?
Can't you post without being so confrontational?
I get my info from the State Department, and according to the State Department, I am legally allowed to tracel to Iran and all those other countries, except for Cuba.
Tourist dollars are turning Cuban women into prostitutes BECAUSE of the regime.
No, beause the policies don't make any sense, and most Cubans know that.
I may be confrontational, but at least I am not vulgar.
The information I just posted came from a site discussing the State Department travel restrictions on US citizens.
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