Just so. For all the decades foreign aid from Soviet Bloc and Western European tourists money being spent in Cuba, Castro has squandered it all. Including hefty drug running bucks.
And after all these years why haven’t foreign investors swept in as they did in the fall of the Soviet empire? Liberals and the fellow travelers on FR would have us believe that a cornucopia of opportunities are waiting to be seized and democracy but another short step there after.
Fact is that the Castro brothers have been plundering, oppressing, and murdering Cubans before LBJ started his Great Society and the War on Poverty. Cuba today is what the liberals are endeavoring to effect here.
The Cuban middle class fled or imprisoned. The great leveling there was achieved in astonishing few years. Whatever industry remained was at best based on fifties equipment and processes, more on pre WWII generation tech. There’s no continuity of vocational skills there, zip, zero, nada. And Obama speaks of internet access. The Soviets failed in improving matters.
Fifty years later the situation rather than improving even marginally has decayed even more.
Investors have seen a population largely unskilled and un-teachable and thoroughly entrenched in socialist ethos. Couple that with property and legal rights based on the whims of the Castro bros. Who in their right mind would consider investing in such an environment.
Rand Paul was born in 1963 and thus has no direct memory of the missile crisis and probably little of of the period of Cuba’s exporting revolution to South America and the forays into Africa. Whatever sense of history he has was formed at the knee of his whacked-out daddy. Ask Rand how he feels about the nationalization of American properties by Castro. Ask him what safeguards Cuba now offers to attract foreign money. Or the ongoing torture and oppression.
Rand changes his coat according to his audience, there is no moral core to the man, he just cleans up a tad better than his old man.
F both RPs
Pope Francis concocted Obama’s unconditional surrender to Cuba Stalinist regime.
Behind Obama’s unconditional surrender to the Castro’s brothers, is the plot to make the American taxpayers liable for whatever the American companies sell to Cuba. The end of the embargo is their goal. "Because of something called the Export-Import Bank there's no risk whatsoever in exporting to bankrupt, murderous and kleptocratic regimes- worse there' no incentive for the kleptocrats to clean up their act, as would happen under a genuine free-market. Also the World, financed 80% by the American taxpayers will open their vaults to be freely looted by the Castro brothers."
Castro helped to bankrupt the Soviet Union, Obama before leaving want to complete the destruction of United States.
In the commercial and political relations of the Cuban regime and the U.S. there are several priorities to be concerned with.
1st. Cuba has defaulted in all his international financial deals and Castro encourages other Third World nations to follow his example. Why are we going to sell to someone without the expectation to ever be pay. The American taxpayers should be aware that they are the targets of the scam by which the multinationals sell to Castro whatever he needs and we, the taxpayers, end footing the bill. Castro for 42 years has been with commercial ties with over 150 nations. Now when he has exhausted the patience of nations fool enough to have given him credit, Castro’s puppets in the media, the congress in cahoots with some greedy commercial circles are trying that the American taxpayers shoulder the heavy burden of subsidizing his regime to the tune of 9 billion dollars.
2nd. The American companies cannot made business legally with Cuba without violating several American laws.
A.- Trading with the Enemy Act.
B.- U.S. Commercial Embargo Against Cuba.
C.- Helms- Burton Law.
D.- Involvement in bribes in commercial dealings with another nation. :
E.- Involvement in slave labor of foreign workers in connivance with the local authorities.
3rd. Cuba is, and has been a terrorist state for 54 years, and counts with advanced chemical, biological and cyber warfare capabilities aimed against our country. The cooperation between the Cuban regime with Iraq and Iran in the chemical and biological research is well known. A few months before the September 11 attack Castro affirmed at the University of Tehran that their cooperation would put the U.S. down to its knees. Castro once tried to nuke our cities and he has the means and the will to fulfill his dream of destroying our country. If we are involved in a worldwide war against terrorism, Cuba at 90 miles from our coasts should be a prime target in that war; so, those involved in appeasement policies towards Castro and in the promotion of the lifting of the commercial embargo against Cuba are in fact aiding and abetting our worst enemy.
The British intelligence recently made public the relationship between Castro and the terrorist guerrillas of Colombia, IRA, and Chilean terrorists. The socialist administration in Chile has expressed their deepest concern to Castro. The Cuban dictator, as usual, disregarded Chile's official inquiry into the matter and denied that any of those Chilean terrorists had ever been in Cuba, although there are phone calls that were intercepted between them while in Cuba and their relatives in Chile.
We have to wonder why Obama unconditionally surrendered to the Cuban Communist thugs endangering the security of the U.S.?