Here's a golden opportunity for Bernie Sanders to buy / build another home to add to his collection. Great price, long term socialist paradise...win win!
I don't think it will stay a socialist paradise for long. I've told my wife I'm beginning to think of retiring in Argentina, Venezuela, Cuba or Iran -- all places that will, by the time I retire, probably be more capitalist than the United States, even if things go well here.
All true. Also true, Bernie hasn't hesitated to take advantage of a bargain even if it was in a "capitalist" country...one can argue the degree of "capitalist" in Vermont these days...(-;
Whatever happens let's all remember the bail out of this vile regime Obama provided as he gleefully did the wave with Ramon Castro at a baseball game in Havanah.
I suspect land will be a big problem if the communists capitulate. Many Cuban refugees I grew up with in the South were waiting to return so they could reclaim their land taken by the Commies. I don't know if they are still so committed to that cause after 60+ years but land ownership could get very contentious and there needs to be a plan ahead of time that the Cuban community in the U.S. have bought into.
The suffering in Cuba and other Communist countries can and should be laid squarely at the feet of academia and academics past, and most bitterly, present. Every year 10's of thousands of young people are "graduated" from universities in the West with the belief that Marxism, socialism, communism and the new fangled "Democratic Socialism" are the solutions to all the world's problems; instead of the root of those problems.That these economic systems haven't ever worked is chalked up to impure implementation. The 120 million deaths and counting are dismissed as the eggs one must crack in order to construct a more equitable society.
Shame on us for allowing universities to continue to teach this drivel.
Note that the universities practice the most rapacious form of capitalism when it comes to charging for their services and denying their failures even the bare shelter of bankruptcy. Note the professors make multiples of what the housekeeping staff make. Note the percentage of tenured vs. part timers on teaching staff. Note the obscene numbers and salaries of administrative staff.
It used to be that people with modest incomes who lived sober lives in modest houses could afford to send their kids to state schools without incurring life long punishing debt. But no more. While some learn skills that allow them to prosper; too many are forced into a life of penury; after the Marxists strip off their pound of flesh. They abuse their power over young minds by employing sophistry to turn young people against their family and their fellow citizens and their country.
A good start would be forcing televised debates between Marxist professors and free marketeers.
But they would never allow this. Most wouldn't participate. In their minds debate legitimizes the illegitimate. They can only operate in their walled kingdom.
Force the schools to have skin in the game. Allow school debt to be dischargeable in bankruptcy. Force the schools to stop floating bonds to build palaces and naming them after overpaid administrators. Force the schools to spend a good percentage of their endowment to keep costs down. Medice, cura te ipsum or if you prefer Luke 4:23.
Muchísimas gracias, Profesor. Please let us know if you hear of a Cuban VC outfit open to smaller investors. I actually know a guy with PR connections and experience who might be interested in some contracting (construction) work.
My wife and I had the privilege of visiting Cuba about 10 years ago with my mom and a couple of long time family friends. The bones of the country (what it was like before 1959 and the glorious revolution) are stunning. I wouldn't mind going back in a couple of years to re-visit. I would especially like to SCUBA dive at los jardines de la reina. Apparently, it's truly unspoiled diving as to what the Caribbean used to be like before all of the development.
If there is a humanitarian crisis my Church of Jesus Christ, of Latter-day Saints stands ready to help as we have done in so many places for so many years.
There can be no serious investment in Cuba without a complete overhaul/replacement of the current leadership and governmental structure. The business world found out how much their contracts and “property” were worth in communist China, and Cuba would be far worse without totally cleaning house. The Art of the Deal is only as good as who you’re dealing with. I assume Trump knows that very well. My point is that in the near term the thing to watch will be how they replace the current ruling structure and with what protections.
I'm curious about all of the people who fled Cuba who will want some of their property back. I wonder if they will get some of it back? Including coastal property.
Marco Rubio may take on one final job in years to come - Governor or perhaps President of Cuba. I think Cuba could theoretically be the next Puerto Rico....
Never visited Cuba but I bet it would be really nice to watch the sunset from a nice hotel balcony on the NW coast, say in Havana, while drinking a layered tequila, orange juice, blackberry brandy, and grenadine cocktail. Even nicer to do so while saying good night to Communism.
When Castro loosened things up a bit during the Obama era, the California Farm bureau sent a delegation to Cuba to see if there was any kind of a mutually beneficial relationship to be had. It came home with a decided "no." But that had more to do with the fact that only 10% of the agricultural land was available for such arrangements. Perhaps once the commies are out, Cali farmers might give the island another look.
Cuba will require substantial improvements to both its physical and societal infrastructures. A great deal of money will be needed up front.
Here's a golden opportunity for Bernie Sanders to buy / build another home to add to his collection. Great price, long term socialist paradise...win win!
I don't think it will stay a socialist paradise for long. I've told my wife I'm beginning to think of retiring in Argentina, Venezuela, Cuba or Iran -- all places that will, by the time I retire, probably be more capitalist than the United States, even if things go well here.
All true. Also true, Bernie hasn't hesitated to take advantage of a bargain even if it was in a "capitalist" country...one can argue the degree of "capitalist" in Vermont these days...(-;
Whatever happens let's all remember the bail out of this vile regime Obama provided as he gleefully did the wave with Ramon Castro at a baseball game in Havanah.
I suspect land will be a big problem if the communists capitulate. Many Cuban refugees I grew up with in the South were waiting to return so they could reclaim their land taken by the Commies. I don't know if they are still so committed to that cause after 60+ years but land ownership could get very contentious and there needs to be a plan ahead of time that the Cuban community in the U.S. have bought into.
The suffering in Cuba and other Communist countries can and should be laid squarely at the feet of academia and academics past, and most bitterly, present. Every year 10's of thousands of young people are "graduated" from universities in the West with the belief that Marxism, socialism, communism and the new fangled "Democratic Socialism" are the solutions to all the world's problems; instead of the root of those problems.That these economic systems haven't ever worked is chalked up to impure implementation. The 120 million deaths and counting are dismissed as the eggs one must crack in order to construct a more equitable society.
Shame on us for allowing universities to continue to teach this drivel.
Note that the universities practice the most rapacious form of capitalism when it comes to charging for their services and denying their failures even the bare shelter of bankruptcy. Note the professors make multiples of what the housekeeping staff make. Note the percentage of tenured vs. part timers on teaching staff. Note the obscene numbers and salaries of administrative staff.
It used to be that people with modest incomes who lived sober lives in modest houses could afford to send their kids to state schools without incurring life long punishing debt. But no more. While some learn skills that allow them to prosper; too many are forced into a life of penury; after the Marxists strip off their pound of flesh. They abuse their power over young minds by employing sophistry to turn young people against their family and their fellow citizens and their country.
A good start would be forcing televised debates between Marxist professors and free marketeers.
But they would never allow this. Most wouldn't participate. In their minds debate legitimizes the illegitimate. They can only operate in their walled kingdom.
Force the schools to have skin in the game. Allow school debt to be dischargeable in bankruptcy. Force the schools to stop floating bonds to build palaces and naming them after overpaid administrators. Force the schools to spend a good percentage of their endowment to keep costs down. Medice, cura te ipsum or if you prefer Luke 4:23.
Muchísimas gracias, Profesor. Please let us know if you hear of a Cuban VC outfit open to smaller investors. I actually know a guy with PR connections and experience who might be interested in some contracting (construction) work.
My wife and I had the privilege of visiting Cuba about 10 years ago with my mom and a couple of long time family friends. The bones of the country (what it was like before 1959 and the glorious revolution) are stunning. I wouldn't mind going back in a couple of years to re-visit. I would especially like to SCUBA dive at los jardines de la reina. Apparently, it's truly unspoiled diving as to what the Caribbean used to be like before all of the development.
If there is a humanitarian crisis my Church of Jesus Christ, of Latter-day Saints stands ready to help as we have done in so many places for so many years.
There can be no serious investment in Cuba without a complete overhaul/replacement of the current leadership and governmental structure. The business world found out how much their contracts and “property” were worth in communist China, and Cuba would be far worse without totally cleaning house. The Art of the Deal is only as good as who you’re dealing with. I assume Trump knows that very well. My point is that in the near term the thing to watch will be how they replace the current ruling structure and with what protections.
I'm curious about all of the people who fled Cuba who will want some of their property back. I wonder if they will get some of it back? Including coastal property.
As one is wont to say in my culture "from your mouth to G0d's ear" We can only hope for the best.
Marco Rubio may take on one final job in years to come - Governor or perhaps President of Cuba. I think Cuba could theoretically be the next Puerto Rico....
Never visited Cuba but I bet it would be really nice to watch the sunset from a nice hotel balcony on the NW coast, say in Havana, while drinking a layered tequila, orange juice, blackberry brandy, and grenadine cocktail. Even nicer to do so while saying good night to Communism.
When Castro loosened things up a bit during the Obama era, the California Farm bureau sent a delegation to Cuba to see if there was any kind of a mutually beneficial relationship to be had. It came home with a decided "no." But that had more to do with the fact that only 10% of the agricultural land was available for such arrangements. Perhaps once the commies are out, Cali farmers might give the island another look.
Cuba will require substantial improvements to both its physical and societal infrastructures. A great deal of money will be needed up front.