June 14, 2006

No More Excuses

From a post sarcastically titled "fidel, we love you" at World Views, comes the following comment which I just had to share with you all:


...and an education system which is the envy of Latin America.

hrw,

right on cue! As per formula. Do you know what they call coconut pickers in Cuba? Phds. Cuba has good schools! NO JOBS. But good schools! lol! Thanks for the standard Leftwing talking points on Cuba, hrw.

Cuba is doing soooo great (according to you) that half its population has fled across the waters, and Leftard relief convoys feel compelled to violate U.S. sanctions because the Cubans schools and hospitals are doing so great.

Now back to reality. The old excuses about how U.S. sanctions are the cause of Cuba's misery is bunk. Cuba has economic relations with every other country on the planet, except the U.S. Is there Cuban inventory rottig on the shelves because we haven't opened up markets to them? Of course. Cuba has more than enough trading partners worldwide as it is. What it lacks is not trading partners, but anything of value to trade-- except for coconuts and cigars, that is.

The fact is, communism is great at redistributing wealth (which they did after the fall of Batista), but it is utterly incapable of producing even a bushel's worth of coconuts in value. THAT'S Cuba's problem. Not the embargo. So no more excuses.

It's been 50 odd years now, and the old excuses about what meanies the yanks were no longer cut it. Hold a free and fair election, release the political prisoners, and let the exiles come home. No more excuses.

Viva Cuba Libre.

Posted by Val Prieto at June 14, 2006 03:41 PM

Comments

Not meaning to be petty but I think your "Of course." should be "Of course not." (it kind of threw me).

Posted by: Jay [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 14, 2006 06:00 PM

Castro owes billions of dollars. "Cuba’s Foreign Debt" released on August 19, 2002 by the Cuba Transition Project (distributed by La Voz de Cuba Libre), offers an accounting as of the end of 2001: owed to the European Union, $10.893 billion; to the former Eastern Europe, $2.2 billion; to the former Soviet Union, $25 billion; to England, $196 million; to Japan, $1.7 billion; to China, $400 million; to Argentina, $1.58 billion; to Mexico, $380 million; to Venezuela, $142 million; to Canada, $73 million; to Chile, $20 million and to South Africa, $85 million”. (www.nocastro.com).

Cuba is free to trade with every country except the United States. Castro is also able to purchase American made products through a third country, and at a much cheaper price. Lifting the U.S. embargo will allow Castro to have more credit and further indebt the country. It would be the gullible to believe Castro would ever repay a debt to the U.S. It would be left to the American taxpayers to pick up the tab.

Posted by: Firefly [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 14, 2006 10:47 PM


Fidel I really hate you as it do with the vast majority of my fellow cubans,without alvarezez,
maidiquises,etceses

Posted by: RALPH [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 15, 2006 06:29 AM

Man I tried to leave a comment but it flags me as Spam...:(

Posted by: La Ventanita [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 15, 2006 01:52 PM


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