Posted on 05/10/2014 4:39:12 AM PDT by Kaslin
Thought this meant interest you .....
I find it hilarious in light of a recent conversation...!!!
Geez make that “might” not “meant”
BookMark
Interesting.
Like all liberals The smart and clever Jon Stewart has no use for facts or the truth.
And I am supposed to take anything Liebowitz has to say with anything other than derision because?....
Oh right; the weak-minded and stupid actually consider him a “newsman”.
Got it.
I know a few who resemble that remark...
Anybody who thinks Stewart show is an outlet for real "news" or reporting doesn't actually watch or read the news...
I grew up and lived through the Castro revolution in Miami.
Most of the folks were Castro sympathizers.
The US government would raid small airfields in S. Fla and stop trafficking arms shipments to Fidel. Much to the dismay of the populace.
It wasn’t long after Castro took over his true colors came out.
Several of my classmates had relatives in the Cuban Army that were executed. Thousands were .
I give guys like this no props. He (Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz) is nothing but style and bedazzlement. He rants at FOX preferring to serve the liberal left. He is nothing without his legions of writers and thought creators. The same group that wrote the books for the chief of state at the white hut.
The man is an entertainer, nothing close to a news person or even an analyst. Smug, pompous and egotistic are his resume enhancers. Unfortunately he is plugged into the young set with a platform to spew his leftest philosophical mind candy. He surely would have been known as a useful idiot to Stalin were he still around.
It's always been amazing to me the love affair the Hollywood left has with Che Guevara...
Thug, killer, mass murder of thousands , torturer of little boys...
They PROUDLY wear his icon...
Jon Stewart (born Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz; November 28, 1962)
Thanks for the post! Great to hear from an eye-witness.
I’m curious though...once his true colors came out, was there not something of a ‘turn-around’ of attitude? (I’d guess especially amongst your classmates, yes?)
I seem to recall Miami’s Cubans being described as fairly(?), if not staunchly anti-commie.
Went to HS in S. Florida, but haven’t lived there in many moons.
Major turnaround. You read that it was the US turning its back on Castro that drove him into the arms of the USSR. BALONEY.
He had it planned from the get-go.
The company I worked for had offices in Cuba. One of the managers fled Cuba. He wasn’t allowed to bring anything but the clothes on his back. All his possessions were confiscated by the State.
He managed to sneak a $50 bill out of Cuba, in his Zippo lighter.
Until the Mariel Boatlift (thank you Jimmie Carter) most of the refugees were good decent, hard working people. Many professionals.
The Boatlift era was full of criminals, the dregs.
Castro cleared out his prisons on us. (thanks again Jimmie)
The refugees were the most virulent anti-communists in the US.
There were 2 homes within a mile radius of mine that were bombed.
The apparent crime? The Cuban owners had had their picture taken w/ Castro. This was years after the takeover, circa 1970. They were in Cuba to try to get loved ones out of the country.
Are they virulent today? Don’t know. I moved away in 1984.
Looking at some of the election results lately I think not.
Formosa, now Taiwan, was an island like Cuba in natural resources and population in the 1950’s. In both countries the principal industry was the Sugar Cane production. Cuba was at that time a country in development with standards of living much higher than Taiwan, the rest of Latin America and also Europe, including Western Europe.
Taiwan took the capitalist road and Cuba in 1959 embraced communism. Very soon Taiwan was transformed in a developed and prosperous “first world” country. In the other hand, Cuba, under communism went from enjoying one of the highest levels of living before Castro, to compete with Haiti for the dishonorable place as the poorest country in Latin America, and what is even worse, thanks to the communist regime, the Cubans are the less free people in this hemisphere.
The results of imposing the communism in Cuba confirmed, once more, the superiority of capitalism over communism. We saw it in the split of Korea and Germany. In South Korea and West Germany capitalism promoted freedom and creation of wealth for all their people. In the communist North Korea and East Germany, in spite of that at the split of those country the communist side was the best developed, in both countries the communist utopia brought to its people only misery and brutal oppression.
Under capitalism the people of two cities, Singapore and Hong Kong, enjoy the freest economies in the world and also benefit from one of the highest standard of living.
As Spanish philosopher stated: “Those who ignore history are damned to repeat its errors.”
History repeats itself, Venezuela, a very rich country with great reserves of oil, was taken over by communists puppets of the Castro’s brothers, now is going bankrupt and its people are suffering the same lack of the most elementary staples of modern life, just as the Cuban people have been suffering for more than five decades.
Modern capitalism offers freedom and progress. Socialism, in all its forms, brings less freedom and more misery. It seems that many people in Latin America prefers to live under communist even though it only brings oppression and misery.
There is a lot of misinformation about Cuba’s standard of living before Castro took over the reins of Cuba. In his scholarly research book “Cuba, The Pursuit of Freedom”, the English historian Hugh Thomas, begins with Colon discovery of the Island all the way to the 1960 (1696 pages). Later on, Thomas wrote another book covering the first years of Cuban Revolution once in power that has been translated into Spanish, “Historia Contemporánea de Cuba, De Batista a nuestros días.” (550 pages, 1971) .
According to Hugh Thomas: “By most criteria, Cuba (in 1957) was now one of the better off countries in Latin America. Income per capita lay between $350 and $550 a year, probably nearer the higher figure. The only Latin American countries which definitely exceeded these figures were Argentina and Venezuela.” (Thomas “Cuba” page 1103).
According to the International Monetary Fund, in 1956, Cuba per head yearly income was $364, was higher than Mexico ($284), Brazil ($281), and comparable to Italy ($404) and higher than Japan ($252) and India ($61). In 1958, Cuba was the greatest exporter of agricultural products; relative to it’s population, of all Latin America. Cuba’s domestic production, together with the imported food staples, made the Cubans one of the best-fed people in the world. (“Cuba, Geopolítica y Pensamiento Económico” by J. Alvarez Diaz, R. Arredondo, R.M. Shelton and J. Vizcaíno, 1964, page 527) This is a fact recognized by the FAO (United Nations for Agricultural and Feeding), as recorded by Ginsburg. The calory intake was: Argentina (3240), Cuba (2730), Mexico (2390), Chile (2,370). (“Cuba Cenit and Eclipse” by Salvador Villa)
In spite of its small population and size, Cuba in 1958 was the fourth exporter in Latin America and the fifth in its capacity for imports. In 1958 Cuba had commercial treaties with United States, Britain, Argentina, Italy, Spain, West Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Ireland, Island, Israel, Japan, Denmark, Peru, Sweden, etc. It also kept commercial relations with Uruguay, Colombia, Panama, France, Holland, Soviet Union, Pakistan, Iran, Morocco, Australia, New Zealand, with favorable trade balance for Cuba. The trade balance with Canada, Venezuela, Mexico, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Luxemburg, Norway, India, Hong Kong, was slighted unfavorable to Cuba. (Cuba Cenit and Eclipse” by Salvador Villa, page 50, 51))
There is an interesting report written by the Mexican Marxist economist, Juan F. de Noyola, who was invited to Cuba by Che Guevara. Noyola, who had a large experience in Latin American economies having worked with the CEPAL, was put in charge of a group of foreigners planning the Cuba’s projects for industrialization as well as the study of the Cubans’ technical capabilities.
Noyola wrote: “Considering the supply of technicians and skilled labor, Cuba seems to be in much better position that other Latin American countries. In reference to skilled labor of a level inferior at those to the professional technicians, the level of literacy of the Cuban population is –in Latin American terms – rather high. There are only two countries in Latin American with a higher literacy, Argentina and Uruguay. On the other hand, the Cuban worker, including those in agricultural activities, who constitute a great reserve of labor, have an educational elementary lever, but they are familiar with the modern techniques thanks to they contacts with sugar industry and the use of agricultural machines, something you don’t find in other countries. The farmers in other Latin American countries, including those more developed, have a lower educational and technical level than the Cubans. We are not comparing the Cuban workers with those in the highland of Peru; Bolivia or Mexico, even when compared with the Chilean farmer, the degree of familiarity with modern techniques of the less qualified Cuban laborer is remarkable. As a result, Cuba has a relative advantage in the training of its workers.” (Cuba Cenit and Eclipse” by Salvador Villa, pages 28, 29)
“In reference to the professional technicians, the problem, said Noyola, could have been grave, but the due to the unemployment of the 1930s and the high development of the Sugar industry it produced an excess of professionals in certain areas. For example, affirm Noyola, we find many Cuban physicians in United States; in South America it was brought to my attention that many of the big enterprises had Cuban accountants. Apparently, the unemployment problem and the fact that Cuba had an standard of living very high in the 1920s, allowed for a great sector of the population to have a high level of formal education, including at the university level” (Cuba Cenit and Eclipse” by Salvador Villa, page 29)
When Castro took over on January 1959, Cuba was a country rapidly developing with a solid economy and a well-educated population, a people with a high degree of self-reliance and entrepreneurial spirit. Those traits have been proven everywhere they have had to settle in their quest for freedom after witnessing the ruin and brutal oppression imposed over the unfortunate people living under Castro’s totalitarian communist regime.
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Sounds like you speak from experience, my brother.
In 1964 we applied to leave Cuba after the communist regime confiscated our business without any compensation. We never expected to abandon our country, neither thought that communism would prevail in Cuba.
We were not able to leave Cuba until May 1967 when my family sent us the fares to go through Spain with my wife, 4 small children and mother in law. In November we arrived to U.S. with visa and 3 years latter we all became proud American citizens.
Thousands of Cubans died and hundreds of thousands suffered torture in Castro’s dungeons for fighting against the communist regime.
We are experiencing in U.S the establishment of socialism without bloodshed or resistance from the people.
We pray to God to spare this country from further damage by the Marxist utopians in power.
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