^^I bet life is better here than in...Markam...So your saying the Cubans here are facists? I'm sure they didn't like the authoritarian government either. No one compared him to Hitler, BKS just said it's offensive to Cuban's to have a Pro-Castro avy as it would be to Jews is someone had a Nazi avy. Tell me deception are you a commy? Do you believe in excecuting those who don't believe in your government.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting playmaker15:</div><div class="quote_post">^^I bet life is better here than in...Markam...So your saying the Cubans here are facists? I'm sure they didn't like the authoritarian government either. No one compared him to Hitler, BKS just said it's offensive to Cuban's to have a Pro-Castro avy as it would be to Jews is someone had a Nazi avy. Tell me deception are you a commy? Do you believe in excecuting those who don't believe in your government.</div> read something other than the miami herald!!! hitler killed jews, communists, political rivals, catholics, ethnic minorities in the surrounding areas and anybody else he could get his hands on. and btw, i'm a capitalist cause it confers freedom, not political ones or material but rather creative ones and u kinda need to have read something other than slam magazine to know why. and btw, i'd much rather live in markham cause the crimes rates are much lower and the people are much nicer.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Best Kept Secret:</div><div class="quote_post">If you?re of Cuban heritage I don?t think you can talk about Castro without being extremely against the man. You can?t stand there and take a neutral approach when you have family living in a communist government because of Casto. If someone had a picture of Hitler in their avatars, I?m pretty sure a lot of people would be offended.</div> It all depends on your political stance. Obviously, everyone in Cuba isn't opposed to his regime. I just think you can't write off what he has done, by just labelling him a communist and calling him evil. It's too juvenile and ignores the complexity of the issue.
Say what you will about Castro, but for god sake, stop lowering yourself by calling other people commies... It's just as absurd as randomly calling people terrorists in today's society. People need to stop the whole "you're either with us or against us" mentality that the gov't is creating. Communists aren't any more evil than capitalists...
I think he's dead. He would've commented by now and so would've Raul. I think they are getting ready for the aftermath of this and the mayhem it will cause on the island.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Playmaker15:</div><div class="quote_post">I think he's dead. He would've commented by now and so would've Raul. I think they are getting ready for the aftermath of this and the mayhem it will cause on the island.</div> stop listening to the mean spirited gossip coming from miami. published reports have him going back to work soon.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting deception:</div><div class="quote_post">stop listening to the mean spirited gossip coming from miami. published reports have him going back to work soon.</div> Deception, you do bring up some interesting points. Do you have any books/links that you'd suggest I use to read about castro? Just wondering...
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting deception:</div><div class="quote_post">comparing castro to hitler is laughably absurd. hitler dabbled in racial cleansing, along with other nefarious projects while castro inconvenienced the lives of those that were to loyal to the fascist, dictator batista who castro ousted in the revolution. those "inconvenienced" members of cuban society just transplanted themselves to miami, clearly life in miami must suck cause u guys can't stop bitchin.</div> He inconvenianced them to 3rd world country status. Regardless of US embargo, the Cuban gov't gives LITTLE to its people.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Vintage:</div><div class="quote_post">He inconvenianced them to 3rd world country status. Regardless of US embargo, the Cuban gov't gives LITTLE to its people.</div> The Cuban government estimates that the total direct economic impact caused to Cuba by the U.S. embargo is $70 billion, including loss of export earnings, additional import costs, limiting the growth of the Cuban economy, and social damage. The U.S. International Trade Commission estimates an ongoing annual loss to U.S. exporters of $1.2 billion. Nevertheless, the embargo had a limited effect on Cuba in its first few decades as the island nation was heavily subsidized by the Soviet Union and the Comecon nations which supplied Cuba with cheap oil, consumer goods, and subsidies. This peaked in the 1980s, when Cuba received around $6 billion per annum. The collapse of the Soviet bloc in 1989 and of the Soviet Union itself two years later resulted in an economic crisis in Cuba and in the embargo, having its greatest effect by denying Cuba the ability to replace Soviet imports with U.S. imports. Cuba has developed trading relations with the rest of the world, including a substantial amount of official (as well as much unofficial) trade with the U.S. but since the U.S. is the closest geographic entity to Cuba and the dominant producer in the region, the necessity of importing goods from elsewhere (such as Europe) made these goods more expensive due to transportation costs. Despite the difficulties created by the embargo in the 1990s, Cuba defied predictions that without Soviet support it would quickly collapse. The blow was partly softened by Cuba opening up to tourism. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States...go_against_Cuba The embargo does matter. They're lucky to have not completely collapsed.
<div class="quote_poster">Quoting Vintage:</div><div class="quote_post">He inconvenianced them to 3rd world country status. Regardless of US embargo, the Cuban gov't gives LITTLE to its people.</div> before u speculate about the motivations of the cuban government, i suggest u brush up on your grammar and arguments. what is a "third world country status"? run-on sentence for starters and fyi- the cuban government gives a lot to its people, hence the term "socialism". And huevonkiller- i suggest u read the british press, they usually have the best grasp on world events. although, honestly anything outside of miami tends to be fair.
