I have to admit that Obama is bringing a fresh breeze or sunshine or let us say, some semblance of sanity and common sense to our government. I may not agree with everything he is doing but certain of his actions are so refreshing it gives me goose bumps.
One of them concerns CUBA. I am a capitalist. I hate Communism and history has shown that Communism does not work – period. I will talk later about how our economic depression and for that matter, all economic depressions, bring the old Communists out of the woodwork to revive a theory that has never worked but somehow seems attractive to people suffering the effects of a bad economy – take from the rich, they don’t deserve it!
Anyway, when Cuba’s corrupt dictatorship was taken over by a Communist, corrupt dictatorship under Fidel Castro, the U.S. went bonkers. We all know the history (Cuban Missile Crisis under Kennedy) etc. and the fact that an embargo has existed for a very long time making Cuba and it’s people poorer than dirt.
China was and is a Communist country but we opened our borders to them (trade) and accepted their form of government and now China is the economic leader of the world, their people have climbed out of their abject poverty to a new level of prosperity not seen in many, many years – the future is bright as hell! I have always maintained that if you introduce capitalism into a country that did not have it, you will show the people what kind of life is possible and from that point onwards, they will never go back to the old, poor ways and that is what happened with China so to me, capitalism is the best weapon against Communism.
Why did we not respond to Cuba like we did to China? If we did, Cuba and Cubans could be basking in new found luxury just like the Chinese are today. So what is the difference?
I don’t pretend to know exactly what the differences are but a large Cuban-American population in Florida, hell-bent on revenge and punishment were a big factor. In fact, haters of Fidel wanting him to be proven wrong were actually punishing the people of Cuba instead. In fact, recently Raul Castro has admitted that they (Fidel & Communism) may have been wrong for Cuba – did you hear that?
Politics is also to blame for us not reaching out to Cuba. We so wanted Cuban Communism to fail that we forgot about our humanity and left common sense out of our feelings.
Fidel is no longer president. His brother Raul is and he already has made changes, relaxing some of the authoritarian Communist rules in place for so many years. With Obama reaching out a hand of peace, Raul has said that topics like human rights, freedom of the press, release of political prisoners, free travel – everything can be discussed. Obama had requested some reciprocal gestures by the Castro government to show they are really open to making some changes in exchange for normalizing relations between the two countries. Obviously the removal of the economic embargo is the big goal for Cuba. Like I said it could bring prosperity and freedom to Cuba in no time at all.
Like I said, a fresh breeze is blowing across the country – the Obama breeze.
One of them concerns CUBA. I am a capitalist. I hate Communism and history has shown that Communism does not work – period. I will talk later about how our economic depression and for that matter, all economic depressions, bring the old Communists out of the woodwork to revive a theory that has never worked but somehow seems attractive to people suffering the effects of a bad economy – take from the rich, they don’t deserve it!
Anyway, when Cuba’s corrupt dictatorship was taken over by a Communist, corrupt dictatorship under Fidel Castro, the U.S. went bonkers. We all know the history (Cuban Missile Crisis under Kennedy) etc. and the fact that an embargo has existed for a very long time making Cuba and it’s people poorer than dirt.
China was and is a Communist country but we opened our borders to them (trade) and accepted their form of government and now China is the economic leader of the world, their people have climbed out of their abject poverty to a new level of prosperity not seen in many, many years – the future is bright as hell! I have always maintained that if you introduce capitalism into a country that did not have it, you will show the people what kind of life is possible and from that point onwards, they will never go back to the old, poor ways and that is what happened with China so to me, capitalism is the best weapon against Communism.
Why did we not respond to Cuba like we did to China? If we did, Cuba and Cubans could be basking in new found luxury just like the Chinese are today. So what is the difference?
I don’t pretend to know exactly what the differences are but a large Cuban-American population in Florida, hell-bent on revenge and punishment were a big factor. In fact, haters of Fidel wanting him to be proven wrong were actually punishing the people of Cuba instead. In fact, recently Raul Castro has admitted that they (Fidel & Communism) may have been wrong for Cuba – did you hear that?
Politics is also to blame for us not reaching out to Cuba. We so wanted Cuban Communism to fail that we forgot about our humanity and left common sense out of our feelings.
Fidel is no longer president. His brother Raul is and he already has made changes, relaxing some of the authoritarian Communist rules in place for so many years. With Obama reaching out a hand of peace, Raul has said that topics like human rights, freedom of the press, release of political prisoners, free travel – everything can be discussed. Obama had requested some reciprocal gestures by the Castro government to show they are really open to making some changes in exchange for normalizing relations between the two countries. Obviously the removal of the economic embargo is the big goal for Cuba. Like I said it could bring prosperity and freedom to Cuba in no time at all.
Like I said, a fresh breeze is blowing across the country – the Obama breeze.
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