Posted on 01/05/2015 1:56:17 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
It’s hard to believe that this pompous little drug addict is still running around thinking he is important.
The only thing that Cuba does that I think we need to learn is how to make some really good cigars.
He’s right. Autopsies are often quite informative.
One alternative is to flood them with capitalism/commercialism. Put a McDonalds and Starbucks on every corner. Put up a few Wal-Marts. Give the people a little taste of how the rest of the world lives, and they will reject communism.
If given a choice, most people will reject communism. Unfortunately, communism never gives people a choice.
He’s back on the drugs again. If he was ever off of them.
How long do you think it will be before those Cuban doctors are running medicaide and medicare?
It does, indeed.
Socialism destroys.
Spoiled rich children.
They don’t already?
The embargo impedes economic development by making virtually every commodity and every species of equipment both astronomically expensive and difficult to obtain
Actually the Cuban govt impedes economic development.
These blame America first Lefties make me sick with their stupid reasoning.
Western countries have been trading with Cuba in spite of the US embargo. Ofcourse its only the US fault that Cuba is suffering economically!!!///s
The Cuban people can’t afford Walmart/McDonalds cause the govt takes 94% of the pittance income they make.
Proof Drugs and large quantities of liquor are not a good for you...
The embargo, yes the embargo.
A list of the countries that embargoed Cuba...
The USA
and....and....
That’s it.
They could and did trade freely with the rest of the world, yet we are to blame.
........From Wiki..
Despite the existence of the embargo, the United States is the fifth largest exporter to Cuba (6.6% of Cuba’s imports are from the US).[12] However, Cuba must pay cash for all imports, as credit is not allowed.[13]
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As far as the wonderful JFK, if he hadn’t chickensh..ted out and stopped any support for the Bay of Pigs invasion we likely wouldn’t have had to deal with Castro all these years.
A lot to learn? Sure, like how to keep 60 year old cars running.
I hear how bad the American embargo was on Cuba. Yet the rest of the world supported tourism in export of cigars that would be contraband in America.
If sanctions are so bad, why is Obama applying them to North Korea over something an ex-Sony employee may have done?
He ought to be apologizing to the Venezuelan people, who now have no soap or toilet paper, for participating in the Chavez PR scam of “free heating oil for America’s poor.”
Recently heard someone discuss her recent trip to Cuba (through some “cultural exchange” group). The whole thing sounded like a Communist propaganda tool.
The people on the tour (a handful really, the woman said she crossed paths with some tour group of over 20 people and that she normally isn’t a tour person) were prohibited from wandering away from the group on their own (day or night).
They were extremely controlled as to what sort of persons they could interact with and they could only bring back Cuban art or music or photos (which may or may not have been reviewed).
The people in the conversation were of the mind that travel will be more relaxed now that Obama has issued an executive order. Not if Cuba doesn’t want the complaints of the locals broadcast to the world (or possibly aid groups subverting the dictatorship’s “system”).
That is what makes the whole lifting-the-embargo-will-be-good-for-the-Cuban-people argument ridiculous. They have little or no money to buy expensive (for them) articles from the U.S.
As has been stated, Cuba has been trading with every other country in the world. Then why are average Cubans so poor? It's their rotten, commie, economic system not our embargo.
I couldn’t get past the 1st sentence.
If I were JFK or RFK, I would have burned the will.
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