I Emailed Ron Paul

Here is the problem we face. Today's world is extremely complex with infinite yet to be discovered variables added to the explosion of known information. What's a human to do? Which information do you focus on to enhance and improve your life? That is the problem faced each day by all of us. We all spend large quantities of our waking hours doing the same things just to maintain ourselves. We shower, shave, dress using laundry we've cleaned, pressed, folded then put away and go about the day deciding what is important enough to focus our attention on and maybe even remember. For Cubans that includes hours each day analyzing Cuban affairs and searching for answers. Ron Paul is a Congressman from Texas who believes in liberty yet who does not fully understand the dynamics of our situation in Cuba today. So I email him and gave him a brief explanation of the economics that the average Cuban faces. Admittedly it was very brief but I invited him to inquire further if he had question on this topic.

But we should hold his feet to the fire about this and other issues as this election approaches. We must do so as well with all the other candidates. Even more important than trading with Raul's island plantation where he pays his slaves 50 cents a day with no benefits is the "Wet Foot Dry Foot" policy. Ask Ron Paul about his policy on this question and do likewise with the other candidates who are members of the two parties that act now as Castro's jailers. Libertarian candidates like Ron Paul answer in an honest fashion all the questions, voters don't like one or two answers and vote for one of the guys who don't answer any questions but speak extensively on their feelings. Then they screw you good after the election with "Wet Foot Dry Foot" type policies. But if you are specific enough with your questioning of Ron Paul you are going to agree with his answers. On the question of doing business with Cuba (something which Ron Paul and most people have little knowledge of due to the information overload we've discussed here as well as Castro's evil mastermind propaganda machine) if you asked Ron, "Would you support doing business with a Cuban government ruled by a select few that only pays it's workers 50 cents per day then controls the price and availability of every consumable item in a manner even worse than the old West Virginia coal mine scheme did back in the 1930?," I bet you're going to like his answer. He is a good man who just needs to be enlightened about what we already know - our friends and families in Cuba are being held as slave hostages, worked for less money than necessary to have enough of the basic things to live a decent life and beaten, jailed and murdered for complaining about it. And if I'm wrong about Cuba why do they have to use the commies' newspaper for toilet paper? Because just toilet paper cost more than 50 cents per day.

But I did try to explain to Ron that there cannot be free trade with slaves. He should modify his stance to favor free trade with individual Cubans but not with Raul's slave government. Naturally, he should refuse to give Castro credit - except for ruining Cuba...