Cuba Tourists Alert
One cool thing about writing a blog is we have software that counts how many people come to view our blogs, where they are located and if they used a search engine like Google what criteria they were using to search that landed them on my blog.
Because of this I am always learning things about those who read my blog. In the past few months I have had a surge in hits from Cuba, for example. This tells me that Cubans are feeling secure enough and have the means to find my blog and read it. Also recently I've seen a real increase in those searching for information about becoming ill while on vacation in Cuba. Usually the search criteria has words like "stomach cramps" or "diarrhea" or "dengue fever."
The thing that many tourists do not understand is Cuba is an extremely poor country. They produce barely any wealth as a nation. The old line of thinking is it's because of the "embargo." But that's nonsense and I wish the U.S. would lift it today and say to the Castro regime, "What'll ya have today?" That's because the reply would be "nada." Cuba has no money because at the end of the day money is a reflection of the wealth in society. Now I realize that some of you more liberal tourists feel that "wealth" is a dirty word even as you enjoy the fruits of the wealth that YOU created. Wealth, my dear travelers, is but the result of human labor mixed with the land to produce something that other humans find useful, vital or enjoyable. Things like toilet paper are items of wealth. Now you can go back and live in the woods if you can get by without things like toilet papers. But the Cuban people and I rather like modern living.
Since Cuba is one of the more collectivist nations, the people's hands are tied by the rulers who decide everything - the people nothing. Under this system the rulers tell you where to work and get all the output from your labor. Then they give you fifty cents per day for your efforts. Naturally, after almost fifty years of the promise of prosperity as well as all of the stolen stuff having been used up, the Cuban people produce very little wealth. Why produce wealth for the Castro boys?
So, to sum up, poverty breeds filth and disease. It means that normally food is scarce and now that the banker cartel has vastly increased the quantity of money across the globe the price structure we depend on to bring food to the marketplace has been disrupted. It means Canadians, Europeans and U.S. citizens must pay more for less food. In Cuba it means doing without - unless you can steal the tourists' food and give the travelers something else - like dysentery.
Because of this I am always learning things about those who read my blog. In the past few months I have had a surge in hits from Cuba, for example. This tells me that Cubans are feeling secure enough and have the means to find my blog and read it. Also recently I've seen a real increase in those searching for information about becoming ill while on vacation in Cuba. Usually the search criteria has words like "stomach cramps" or "diarrhea" or "dengue fever."
The thing that many tourists do not understand is Cuba is an extremely poor country. They produce barely any wealth as a nation. The old line of thinking is it's because of the "embargo." But that's nonsense and I wish the U.S. would lift it today and say to the Castro regime, "What'll ya have today?" That's because the reply would be "nada." Cuba has no money because at the end of the day money is a reflection of the wealth in society. Now I realize that some of you more liberal tourists feel that "wealth" is a dirty word even as you enjoy the fruits of the wealth that YOU created. Wealth, my dear travelers, is but the result of human labor mixed with the land to produce something that other humans find useful, vital or enjoyable. Things like toilet paper are items of wealth. Now you can go back and live in the woods if you can get by without things like toilet papers. But the Cuban people and I rather like modern living.
Since Cuba is one of the more collectivist nations, the people's hands are tied by the rulers who decide everything - the people nothing. Under this system the rulers tell you where to work and get all the output from your labor. Then they give you fifty cents per day for your efforts. Naturally, after almost fifty years of the promise of prosperity as well as all of the stolen stuff having been used up, the Cuban people produce very little wealth. Why produce wealth for the Castro boys?
So, to sum up, poverty breeds filth and disease. It means that normally food is scarce and now that the banker cartel has vastly increased the quantity of money across the globe the price structure we depend on to bring food to the marketplace has been disrupted. It means Canadians, Europeans and U.S. citizens must pay more for less food. In Cuba it means doing without - unless you can steal the tourists' food and give the travelers something else - like dysentery.
posted by Tomás Estrada-Palma at
10:25 AM
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Real History:
One day in the House of Representatives a bill was taken up appropriating money for the benefit of a widow of a distinguished naval officer. Several beautiful speeches had been made in its support. The speaker was just about to put the question when Crockett arose:
"Mr. Speaker--I have as much respect for the memory of the deceased, and as much sympathy for the suffering of the living, if there be, as any man in this House, but we must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for part of the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living. I will not go into an argument to prove that Congress has not the power to appropriate this money as an act of charity. Every member on this floor knows it.
We have the right as individuals, to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money. Some eloquent appeals have been made to us upon the ground that it is a debt due the deceased. Mr. Speaker, the deceased lived long after the close of the war; he was in office to the day of his death, and I ever heard that the government was in arrears to him.
March 22, 2008
Originally published in "The Life of Colonel David Crockett," by Edward Sylvester Ellis.
By the way that Congress voted down the measure and kept their money as well.
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