"Jim Carter" wrote in message
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"Bill McKee" wrote in message
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And you add what to the post? My daughters college dorm mate went to
Cuba
to visit family. Is legal for US citizens to travel for family visits.
She
said she kissed the ground when she returned to the states. The poor
have
it so bad in Cuba, she cried.

Bill, are there no poor in the good old USA? Perhaps your daughters dorm
mate is from a family that is wealthy and is used to having all of the
luxuries of life. The embargo of the USA to Cuba has not permitted a
lot
of the luxuries that you are used to. The people of Cuba are surviving
quite well in comparison to other poor countries and Cuba is progressing.

Bill, have you been to Cuba? I have. The people have a lot better life
than the poor of the USA! No one in Cuba lives on the streets like some
do
in the USA. Everyone in Cuba has a home. Everyone in Cuba has a job,
some these are good jobs and some are not. This is just like anywhere in
the USA. Your daughters college room mate could visit some of the poor
in
some areas Washington DC and she would kiss the ground when she returned
to
her home.

Jim C.



The poor in the USA are not starving. We have the fattest poor in the
world. As to living on the street, those people are mostly mental cases.
Druggies and mental cases. Be a homeless person on the streets of San
Francisco and you still get a monthly welfare check. Do not spend it on
housing, spend it on your drug of choice. As to the dorm mate being from
the rich side of the tracks, her family is middle class. The embargo has
prevented no luxuries from the Cubans, they just can not afford them. They
have no problem having trading partners. Just the closest one is closed to
them. They can trade with all of Central and South America, and they are
not a long distance away. They can trade with Europe and Asia. What have
they to trade? Sugar. Only goes so far. For years their main trade was
mercenaries. Remember Angola. Rent a Cuban army. Get a grip on life and
use your brain. If it was so great, the tourist trade from Europe alone
would solve their monetary problems. It is a political disaster. 100%
political. At least the Chinese allow private business, and look at the
tourist trade alone for China. Ignore the Chinese tracing their roots, look
at the American and European tours. Those private companies are giving the
people what the want, not an all controlling bureaucracy telling the people
what business they can run and what they can do.