Well, what other solution do you have.
I wish Castro would die tommorow, let me make it clear, I don't want to business with Castro, but, I have no problem trading with a country on the market system, even if that market system is a bit shady.
Admittedly, pinning all our hopes on the death of Castro is not good business strategy, but, there are not many other solutions out there (other than selling the entire city to David Bronner)
Our Chamber of Commerce has been a complete joke, if they came up with a good promotion, we would easily be in the league of Savannah and Charleston when it comes to tourism.
But once again, no one advocates these ideas, nor an idea which I have personally been trying to push (with no luck, I should note) that Mobile should run a national ad campaign coming into direct competition with New Orleans regarding a certain holiday. We could certainly accomadate a crowd of 300,000 or more.
So my question to you is, ok, so, we won't do business with Cuba, ok. What solution do you have to spur the economy in this city.
Get Benchmark Electronics to locate facilties there. Woo Solectron, Flextronics and Celestica. Compete with Huntsville.