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- From: demon@desire.wright.edu (Stupendous Man)
- Newsgroups: sci.econ
- Subject: Re: Milton Friedman...
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.122917.3892@desire.wright.edu>
- Date: 3 Sep 92 17:29:17 GMT
- Article-I.D.: desire.1992Sep3.122917.3892
- References: <2098@usna.NAVY.MIL> <52652@dime.cs.umass.edu> <1992Aug31.142622.3826@desire.wright.edu> <1161@kps.UUCP>
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- In article <1161@kps.UUCP>, ded@kps.UUCP (David Edwards /DP) writes:
- > In article <1992Aug31.142622.3826@desire.wright.edu> demon@desire.wright.edu (Stupendous Man) writes:
- >>
- >> Cuba lived off of the xUSSR for it's entire existence. Now that that
- >>particular sugar daddy is gone, you see the real Cuba. No food. No fuel. A
- >>mimicing of the Khmer Rouge exodus from the cities in order to force more
- >>people to grow food.
- >>
- >> It's quite sad.
- >
- > Where should they get their fuel from under the current blockade? Why
-
- It's an embargo.
-
- They could always improve their human rights record, then trade with
- the countries that respond to that kind of thing :).
-
- > is the US so insistent on destroying Castro's Cuba. While hardly a
- > perfect individual, his provoking attitude to America has unleashed a
- > scarcly understandable paranoia there.
-
- The US government problem with Castro is largely personal. He rubbed
- the US nose in a situation of its own making. Thus the reluctence to make his
- job easier.
-
- Fortunately (for the US government), Castro has followed in the
- footsteps of Stalin enough to make the embargo defendable.
-
- > I suppose with Castro gone, the US would buy back Cuba with massive
- > "aid". That is the best way create individual freedom, is it not?
- > Maybe it would become a 51-st state, like Hawaii. I'm sure that would
- > be popularly supported. :-)
-
- Much more likely to be PR. But then again, aid would flow if Castro
- would free what's left of the political opposition and hold free elections.
-
- > While not a Socialist, I wonder what Cuba would look like if allowed
- > to trade freely. You may say there is no blockade, but anybody doing
- > business with America knows that it better not deal with Cuba. What
- > I'm getting at is that you cannot explain away Cuba's failure on the
- > failure of communism alone, since Eastern Europe's collapse never had
- > the support of the populace (as opposed to George Bush:-) and Castro).
-
- Cuba's problems stem from depending on the USSR for 30 years. Now that
- that subsidy is gone, they have to build the infrastructure that the subsidies
- made redundant.
-
- An embargo of Cuba or an embargo of South Africa for human rights
- violations, either way it's ok. (Now if you want to talk about
- double-standards for different embargoes, I'll probably agree with you.)
-
- Brett
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