More Dark Side from the Empire

From the Future of Freedom Foundation:
http://fff.org/2013/06/28/more-dark-side-from-the-empire/

I agree with all the article, but have a comment about this paragraph:

Let’s also not forget the cruel economic impact that the U.S. embargo has had on the Cuban people for decades. It’s been rationalized as a way to fight communism. Never mind that communist-type economic control over the American people is being used to combat communism in Cuba. That’s bad enough. But it also exposes the fake and false rationale of the welfare state and its foreign aid — that U.S. officials just love the poor, needy, and disadvantaged.

It’s impossible here in Miami, my home for the last 15 years, to get away from news about Cuba.

I support a complete lifting of the embargo, and free trade with Cuba. It would remove the embargo excuse for their socialist-derived poverty.

But I have to point out that Cuba’s problem is not just the U.S. embargo. If it were lifted, and Cuba allowed free market reforms –real ones– then they’d do lots better.

There is a story that illustrates it. An official ambulance one sped through the streets of one small town, and it screeched to a halt at a clinic. The occupants rushed to unload what looked like a patient. But it was a pig for the barbecue. An illegal pig. A couple of years ago they made a limited number of farm plots available for first come first serve, and they could grow and sell what they could.

They had trouble finding takers, because they had already done this three times before but then confiscated them again when they got better.

But there are way over 150 other countries that could trade with Cuba and Cuba with them. Their economics has a lot more to do with their socialism than it does the embargo.

The embargo is a cover in fact to give the Cuban regime an excuse for its socialism, somebody to blame it on.

–Alan

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What’s crazy about opposition to Ron Paul

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http://www.facebook.com/JewsForRonPaul

A controller where I once worked was very much Jewish but confided that he had challenged a friend of his on dual citizenship to make up his mind. The friend was a dual citizen of Israel and the USA. To say that a Jew or a Christian or an Israeli cannot challenge American foreign policy without being “anti-Semitic” is what is crazy, just crazy.

All that buzz from a disgruntled employee who was fired for performance issues, but even Dondero admitted that Ron Paul is not anti-Semitic and is not racist. Sounds like he had personality issues too.

Ron Paul voted against the congressional resolution that condemned Israel for bombing Saddam Hussein‘s nuclear plants. How is this compatible with the idea of wanting Israel wiped off the map?

> I just get the idea he’s like the crazy uncle no one invites over > anymore because he’s obnoxious and embarrassing.
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And the “crazy uncle” theme is an invented Goebbels tactic, an image that has nothing to do with the real issues, like saying Newt is an old fat man or Obama has funny-looking ears.

Sure his ideas are crazy in Flatland, but what’s crazy about

(1) actually making a real cut of one trillion out of the budget, instead of increasing it less than you want to and calling that a cut, or

(2) ending the endless and fruitless wars and war machines, or

(3) a foreign policy that had roaring success for a hundred years (until Truman and Dulles decided to get us into international entangling alliances all over the place), or

(4) returning to a precious-metals based currency that worked great without robbing value from your savings by inflating the money supply, or

(5) ending the monopoly over fiat currency and thereby half of every single economic transaction enjoyed by a cartel of Wall Street banks who have fully “legal” counterfeiting monopoly too (we would be put in jail for what they do), or

(6) as a step to rational economics, forcing an audit on the Fed to find out what they have been doing,

(7) forcing them to tell us where they gave out money all over the place, like the five or six trillion they gave to European central banks, no doubt to bail out Greece (oh, maybe you thought we didn’t help their bail out of Greece)

(8) ending the foreign aid that only serves to steal from the poor in rich countries to give it to the rich in poor countries,

(9) cutting off aid to both Israel and Israel’s enemies (who get THREE TIMES more aid from us than Israel does), especially since Netanyahu said we don’t need your aid anyway, we can defend ourselves anyway, and the most Jewish of Israelis now demanding an end to all aid and the way it ties their hands,

(10) expecting people to take responsibility for their own actions

?????

And as to “no one invites”, even Ron Paul’s political detractors and competition for the nomination have agreed that they would like to have followers with the enthusiasm of Ron Paul supporters.

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Pro-Israel Christians and Jews take note: From Samaria (the West Bank) for Ron Paul

“Why Jews should support Ron Paul“:
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My wife is from Honduras and Hondurans know that foreign aid has not helped them one bit in all the half-century that it’s been flowing to that country. It’s a farce and the poor hate the idea that so-called “rich countries” and international bankers are giving their politicians so much.

The poor want a chance to do business, too.

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Pro-Israel Christians and Jews take note: From Samaria (the West Bank) for Ron Paul

“Why Jews should support Ron Paul“:
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My wife is from Honduras and Hondurans know that foreign aid has not helped them one bit in all the half-century that it’s been flowing to that country. It’s a farce and the poor hate the idea that so-called “rich countries” and international bankers are giving their politicians so much.

The poor want a chance to do business, too.