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The same bozos in the universities that wear che t shirts have free tibet bumper stickers. Sickens me.

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Originally posted by PirateCat:
Roger that! That poor country and its beautiful people have been enslaved to a monster like Castro. I've been to Cuba its a gem. A friend of mine hadn't seen his mother in 25 years. One of the boat people he sends 400 dollars home El Castro takes 125 of it. And Che another murdering slime. The same bozos in the universities that wear che t shirts have free tibet bumper stickers. Sickens me. Well it should be soon that Cuba joins the free world. Its a beautiful place. Hopefully the people bring their cuban culture back to life.

"Battle of Serenity, Mal. Besides Zoe here, how many-" "I'm talkin at you! How many men in your platoon came out of their alive".

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Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
What makes anyone think that even after Fidel & Raul die there will ever be democracy in Cuba?

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What makes anyone think that even after Fidel & Raul die there will ever be democracy in Cuba?

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Hope.

Stole that answer from Barrack (don't want to get accused of plagerism).H

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What makes anyone think that even after Fidel & Raul die there will ever be democracy in Cuba?

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Hope.

Stole that answer from Barrack (don't want to get accused of plagerism).H

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Didn't Jesse Jackson copyright the term "hope" 20 years ago? ...as in Keep Hope Alive, or I Hope I never get audited by the IRS, or I hope no one ever videos me during one of my corporate shake-down meetings...now that's hope!

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Originally posted by Kirkules:
Is it true that Cuba's farm land has been ruined by years of mismanagement. Even if Communism falls in Cuba it could be decades before they can make good cigars in mass quantities.

Oh yeah right, there's the free the Cuban people thing too.

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... most of America where folks are drinking $ 3.00 Starbucks's lattes...

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A friend of mine hadn't seen his mother in 25 years. One of the boat people he sends 400 dollars home El Castro takes 125 of it.

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... most of America where folks are drinking $ 3.00 Starbucks's lattes...

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Where the hell can you get a Starbuck's latte for only three bucks?!

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On the Cuba thing, did it ever occur to anybody who's sending money to their Cuban relatives that maybe, just MAYBE, they too are helping to prop up the Castro regime? I think Castro would've fallen from power and grace long ago if millions of "patriotic" Cuban-Americans hadn't been sending their hard-earned American pesos back home to Cuba. Case in point:

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A friend of mine hadn't seen his mother in 25 years. One of the boat people he sends 400 dollars home El Castro takes 125 of it.

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Also, how exactly is that different from your payroll and income taxes? My paycheck says I make $1275 a week, but by the time it hits my bank account, it's less than a grand. Did El Castro take MY money, too?

Simple solution: Stop sending them money. Wanna see the Castro regime fall? Do what we've done with other Communist nations: don't bomb them with bombs, don't try to seal them off with sanctions and embargoes - bomb them with McNuggets! Seriously, once they get a taste of a Big Mac and a Coke, and we tell them that's what we consider "junk food", hardly worth eating, their systems will collapse pretty quickly.

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Originally posted by PirateCat:
Oh Boy you don't get it. When your mother is hungry you make sure she eats. Its poor with no economy. The old soviet union was pumping in millions a year to prop them up. So you blame people in the US for the commie problem hmmm did an educator teach you that.

"Battle of Serenity, Mal. Besides Zoe here, how many-" "I'm talkin at you! How many men in your platoon came out of their alive".

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Only certain elements of Cuban society reap any modern civilities from the Communists...the average worker peon is basically a slave...and a slave that is watched over constantly. You say the wrong thing, whisper the wrong thing, or even think the wrong thing, and you will disappear. It's a real total shithole of 1930's Stalin-style totalitarianism that is un-imaginabely oppressive.

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Originally posted by Kwicko:
I really want to know, because I *haven't* been taught much at all about Cuba by *any* "educator" - What the fuck is our deal with Cuba? What's our official policy? Does this all really go back to Castro nationalizing the farms and stealing land and businesses from National Fruit? What was it that Cuba did that was SOOOOOO bad that we have treated them as a pariah for over 40 years, when in that same period, we've had good trade relations with places like Iraq, Iran, China, Viet Nam, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Chile, and others? What is it that's UNIQUE about the Cuba problem?

I'm an open book. Educate me.

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