My Hopes High, then shot down by Obama

[buck_futter]

Heard the talk in school on Obama letting travelers go to cuba.. etc etc.

So I was optimistic towards this thinking any US civilian can travel to cuba/ the trade embargo would be lifted.
but no thats not the case. He is only allowing for family travel aka anyone cubans that want to visit their relatives in Cuba, and guess what they can also do? Give them money/gifts! With the US dollar they are likely to be getting allows the Cubans to buy stuff off their black market. And we still cant trade with cuba.

Now I dont know what's the reason behind keeping the embargo act on Cuba. I mean we are out of the cold war arent we? And if it's because theyre communist, why do we trade with china? is it because they provide cheap labor for some of our companies?.

Story found here

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/13/us...heet.html?_r=1

[timmy!]

quit reading the new york times.

[HAWKEYE]

WHO GIVES A SHIT

[diamond-optic]

Quote: Originally Posted by HAWKEYE

WHO GIVES A SHIT

[buck_futter]

i wanna go to cuba for the fishing/surf. Diamond i heard they have good cuban kush. and hawkeye i heard theres tons of old ww2 paraphernalia lining the streets

[HAWKEYE]

why the fuck do you think people make rafts out of cars to get out of that commie shit hole

[buck_futter]

Quote: Originally Posted by HAWKEYE

why the fuck do you think people make rafts out of cars to get out of that commie shit hole

because they're the ones under communist rule, not the tourists.

[HAWKEYE]

Did you just figure out how the world works today?Hell I may not know much about politics but I know how assholes operate sort of , you just said that there only letting CUBANS in from the U.S , what tourists are you talking about , Cold War is a deffo , just not with Russia any more really there still sneaky pricks but with the other commies like Korea and other pricks I cant think of , trust China no, The bulk of the middle east no, the Blakans no, we are on the road to something for sure , to think of it Russia isnt really a threat they are dependent Europe and some Euro pricks are on us , eh well Im babbling now but yeah, FUCK Cuba who cares

[buck_futter]

Quote: Originally Posted by HAWKEYE

Did you just figure out how the world works today?Hell I may not know much about politics but I know how assholes operate sort of , you just said that there only letting CUBANS in from the U.S , what tourists are you talking about , Cold War is a deffo , just not with Russia any more really there still sneaky pricks but with the other commies like Korea and other pricks I cant think of , trust China no, The bulk of the middle east no, the Blakans no, we are on the road to something for sure , to think of it Russia isnt really a threat they are dependent Europe and some Euro pricks are on us , eh well Im babbling now but yeah, FUCK Cuba who cares

I'm Talking about the US ones that go to canada then fly to cuba, plus any non American tourist. And yea.. sorry i labeled cold war as what we had with Russia, and the cuban missile crisis. I just want to know since that threat is gone why dont we let Americans travel there/why cant we trade with them? We'll be getting more out of it since we would probably be a big importer to them. As for the countries you listed above, why dont we slap trade embargoes on them and not let Americans to travel to those countries? seriously tho why not? we did it to cuba and still follow through with it, even though they dont pose a threat anymore. Plus I dont really get where you were going with mentioning them, other than saying cold war still goes on? no shit.

[HAWKEYE]

Well what there doing is called isolationism , which is sealing themselves off from our media or "democracey"
they dont want anything to do with it, One thing about the commies is they want control they dont want any interference especially from us, they want to keep whats theirs. Their big relations are with the biggest commies of them all (Venezuela) and dont leave out China with all the shit they have, they make alot of money, they dont need us plain and simple
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuba-Pe...hina_relations