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Cuba: The Holodomor Next Door. Their starvation policy is a crime against humanity.
National Review ^ | 02/20/2014 | Robert Zubrin

Posted on 02/20/2014 5:40:21 AM PST by SeekAndFind

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To: WellyP
Agreed.

I went to Cuba on a mission trip and most Cubans are very cynical of their government. We don't like the parts of our government that we have to have interaction with; the post office, DMV, and now 0bamacare are not respected and have become a punchline. Imagine if just about EVERYTHING was run by the government and it is no wonder why the average Cuban doesn't like their government very much.

the average worker makes about $10 a month, a doctor $20-25, but the police get $50; and like us they know why you pay the police so much more than everyone else.

21 posted on 02/20/2014 7:39:29 AM PST by fungoking (Tis a pleasure to live in the Ozarks)
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To: SeekAndFind
...Cubans are not allowed to eat beef. Instead, what beef there is in Cuba is reserved for the nation’s rulers and for tourists who can pay for it with foreign exchange while staying at the all-inclusive resort hotels. It is in fact illegal to sell beef to a Cuban...

Guess there's not much difference between the mentality of 'liberal elites' and 'communist elites'... Our liberal elites would do this to us if they had the power.

22 posted on 02/20/2014 8:02:32 AM PST by GOPJ ( America's drifting into totalitarianism because the left's exploitation of social failures.Greenfi)
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To: Texas Fossil
Communism is Evil

It's the favorite horse for totalitarians to ride because it so effectively fools people in the 'take over' stage. You're right Texas - it's evil.

23 posted on 02/20/2014 8:04:58 AM PST by GOPJ ( America's drifting into totalitarianism because the left's exploitation of social failures.Greenfi)
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To: GOPJ

Totalitarianism in all it’s forms is evil.

Progressive, Socialist, Marxist, Communist, Fascist, Dictator, Islamist

ALL EVIL.


24 posted on 02/20/2014 8:08:05 AM PST by Texas Fossil (Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!)
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To: Little Ray

RE: Soooo, why don’t we end it by ending the embargo against Cuba?

How sure are we that the goods coming from America will be used to help the starving instead of the elites?


25 posted on 02/20/2014 8:09:39 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

I don’t think this is news is it? Kids only get milk til age 7. Thats been going on forever.


26 posted on 02/20/2014 8:41:16 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Unlike aid, which would be controlled by the Cuban State, at least some of the goods and revenue from commerce would, inevitably, make it into the hands of average Cubans.


27 posted on 02/20/2014 8:42:26 AM PST by Little Ray (How did I end up in this hand-basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
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To: Little Ray

How can trade be done with Cuba under a regime that controls everything?


28 posted on 02/20/2014 8:48:03 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

What is the State going to do with goods? We’re not talking about “free stuff” that they can steal and re-sell. They will need stuff to trade.
In the end, they’ll need the average Cubans to handle the stuff, and create the goods (cane sugar, among other things...). They will give them some sort of access to the goods.


29 posted on 02/20/2014 8:58:15 AM PST by Little Ray (How did I end up in this hand-basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
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To: SeekAndFind

BM


30 posted on 02/20/2014 9:47:14 AM PST by Para-Ord.45 (Americans, happy in tutelage by the reflection that they have chosen their own dictators.)
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I heard Mayor Bloomberg is concerned about the excess sugar in the monthly rations and positively livid about the amount of salt.


31 posted on 02/20/2014 11:00:42 AM PST by pluvmantelo (The thing of it is, we must live with the living- Michel de Montaigne)
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A modest proposal: the peons should just live on air; it is cheaper and very healthy.


32 posted on 02/20/2014 11:34:19 AM PST by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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