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| UN Wants End To Cuban Embargo | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: 30 Oct 2007, 06:16 PM (321 Views) | |
| KamikazeCow | 30 Oct 2007, 06:16 PM Post #1 |
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| paralock | 31 Oct 2007, 06:02 AM Post #2 |
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We really should. The only way to bring capitalism to them is to open trade. China is slowly converting, and Cuba will too. |
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| Alkeni Synair | 31 Oct 2007, 12:25 PM Post #3 |
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And Capitalisim is any better than what they have? They LIKE Castro. |
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| KamikazeCow | 31 Oct 2007, 03:29 PM Post #4 |
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Let me point out Cuban socialism isn't dependent on Castro. |
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| Astro_Death | 31 Oct 2007, 03:33 PM Post #5 |
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I don't know much about the Cuban sitatuion over the years,but I mean Castro is becoming a relic of the past.If they are dependant on him...They may wanna start depending on someone else
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| Alkeni Synair | 31 Oct 2007, 03:57 PM Post #6 |
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I'm not saying it is. But I'd rather have the devil I know. |
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| Red_Star | 24 Nov 2007, 09:58 PM Post #7 |
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I dont care what happens as long as cuba doesnt change its health care system
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| Alkeni Synair | 24 Nov 2007, 10:11 PM Post #8 |
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agreed. |
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| Benthamus | 25 Nov 2007, 08:04 PM Post #9 |
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Get rid of the embargo and in a few decades time Cuba will have embraced the freedom of the market. |
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| Alkeni Synair | 25 Nov 2007, 08:06 PM Post #10 |
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free market =/= good semi-regulated market = good |
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| Benthamus | 25 Nov 2007, 08:32 PM Post #11 |
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I see you're another unbeliever in the wonders of the free market. Anyway Cuba isn't semi-regulated it would be fully regulated which is very, very bad. |
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| KamikazeCow | 25 Nov 2007, 08:33 PM Post #12 |
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*pops in* This was in late December 1936, less than seven months ago as I write, and yet it is a period that has already receded into enormous distance. Later events have obliterated it much more completely than they have obliterated 1935, or 1905, for that matter. I had come to Spain with some notion of writing newspaper articles, but I had joined the militia almost immediately, because at that time and in that atmosphere it seemed the only conceivable thing to do. The Anarchists were still in virtual control of Catalonia and the revolution was still in full swing. To anyone who had been there since the beginning it probably seemed even in December or January that the revolutionary period was ending; but when one came straight from England the aspect of Barcelona was something startling and overwhelming. It was the first time that I had ever been in a town where the working class was in the saddle. Practically every building of any size had been seized by the workers and was draped with red flags or with the red and black flag of the Anarchists; every wall was scrawled with the hammer and sickle and with the initials of the revolutionary parties; almost every church had been gutted and its images burnt. Churches here and there were being systematically demolished by gangs of workmen. Every shop and cafe had an inscription saying that it had been collectivized; even the bootblacks had been collectivized and their boxes painted red and black. Waiters and shop-walkers looked you in the face and treated you as an equal. Servile and even ceremonial forms of speech had temporarily disappeared. Nobody said 'Senior' or 'Don' or even 'Usted'; everyone called everyone else 'Comrade' and 'Thou', and said 'Salud!' instead of 'Buenos dias'. Tipping was forbidden by law; almost my first experience was receiving a lecture from a hotel manager for trying to tip a lift-boy. There were no private motor-cars, they had all been commandeered, and all the trams and taxis and much of the other transport were painted red and black. The revolutionary posters were everywhere, flaming from the walls in clean reds and blues that made the few remaining advertisements look like daubs of mud. Down the Ramblas, the wide central artery of the town where crowds of people streamed constantly to and fro, the loudspeakers were bellowing revolutionary songs all day and far into the night. And it was the aspect of the crowds that was the queerest thing of all. In outward appearance it was a town in which the wealthy classes had practically ceased to exist. Except for a small number of women and foreigners there were no 'well-dressed' people at all. Practically everyone wore rough working-class clothes, or blue overalls, or some variant of the militia uniform. All this was queer and moving. There was much in it that I did not understand, in some ways I did not even like it, but I recognized it immediately as a state of affairs worth fighting for. *pops out* |
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| Alkeni Synair | 26 Nov 2007, 01:19 PM Post #13 |
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Blah? @ Ben: I agree, Cuba has some bad things. However I would like you to give my 15 GOOD things about the Free market system, so I can tear each and every single one apart and win this arguement once and for all. |
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| Benthamus | 1 Dec 2007, 03:45 AM Post #14 |
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When you say good things do you want pragmatic reasons or philosophical reasons? |
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| Alkeni Synair | 1 Dec 2007, 06:39 AM Post #15 |
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Hm....12 Pragmatic reasons and 3 'philosphical' |
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