Travel to Cuba
| Wed Apr. 1, 2009 7:47 AM PDT
A sliver of good news out of Congress:A bipartisan group of senators predicted Tuesday that Congress was ready to pass legislation to allow all Americans to travel to Cuba.
....Sponsors said the bill would free Americans to travel to the one place in the world they can't go and encourage Cubans to push for democratic reforms by exposing them to new people and information.
The trade embargo against Cuba has long outlived whatever usefulness it might have had. It accomplishes nothing and has turned us into an international joke. Still, it's well within the bounds of normal international relations. I don't like it, but it's not fundamentally antidemocratic or an assault on basic freedoms.
The travel ban has always been in a separate class. Autocracies and dictatorships control the movements of their subjects, but free citizens of a liberal democracy should be able to travel wherever they want. So whatever happens with the trade embargo, removing the travel ban should be a no-brainer. This is America, not North Korea.
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It is about time
Submitted by scott on Wed Apr. 1, 2009 8:31 AM PDT.
I hope this is not an April Fools joke because it is about damn time we lifted the travel ban. It would be a huge boost to Cuba's economy and would open their society.
The trade ban needs to go to.
"Autocracies and
Submitted by Anonymous2 (not verified) on Wed Apr. 1, 2009 8:47 AM PDT.
"Autocracies and dictatorships control the movements of their subjects ..."
umm, in this very posting you've just shown that you don't care about
autocracy and dictatorship.
As long as it is of the correct type, presumably.
Retain Socialism
Submitted by stephaniemariearnet on Wed Apr. 1, 2009 12:39 PM PDT.
While I reside in California, I am still a Canadian citizen and I've been free to travel to Cuba (although I haven't yet). But whatever restrictions the US decides to revoke, they must not push our greedy, inequality creating capitalistic form of democracy on them. Cuba must remain socialist. While some unregulations should be infused into their monentary system, it cannot, for the love of cuban society, be forced into capitalism. Democratic socialism is their only option.
A fair reaction, in other
Submitted by tiffany jewelry (not verified) on Sat Aug. 15, 2009 11:39 PM PDT.
A fair reaction, in other countries Monetary Policy and Bank Regulatory or financial sector regulatory are under different entities, e.g. Bank of England and Financial Services Authority. Regardless, your bizarre balkanised system is clearly a bad approach.
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