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President Trump has placed some restrictions on travel to Cuba, but has not entirely undone the changes that former President Obama made in his second term:
In an overhaul of one of his predecessor's signature legacies, President Donald Trump will redraw U.S. policy toward Cuba on Friday, tightening travel restrictions for Americans that had been loosened under President Barack Obama and banning U.S. business transactions with Cuba's vast military conglomerate.
Trump's changes are intended to sharply curtail cash flow to the Cuban government and pressure its communist leaders to let the island's fledgling private sector grow. Diplomatic relations reestablished by Obama, including reopened embassies in Washington and Havana, will remain. Travel and money sent by Cuban Americans will be unaffected, but Americans will be unable to spend money in state-run hotels or restaurants tied to the military, a significant prohibition.
Editorials for and against the rollback.
Previously: Deal Will Allow Up to 110 U.S. Flights to Cuba Daily
President Obama Visits Cuba
USA Ends "Wet Foot/Dry Foot" Policy for Cuban Migrants
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 16 2017, @08:31PM (9 children)
What do you mean? Are you saying No True Communist? Because if so, then fuck you! If it says it's a communist, walks like a communist, and murders people like a communist, it's a fucking communist, regardless of what your perfect ideal of communist might be.
(Score: 3, Informative) by ikanreed on Friday June 16 2017, @08:36PM (6 children)
No, I mean, you retard, that communists, literally by definition are supposed to favor workers.
Why communist governments seem to universally fail at that is a exercise for the reader. Which doesn't absolve you of being a fucking retard who doesn't get that communist ideologues celebrate workers to obscene degrees.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 16 2017, @08:44PM (5 children)
Which was the entire point of my original comment. I also disagree with you that it's supposed to favor workers, that's the sale line but not the intent.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 16 2017, @10:00PM (4 children)
Just like capitalism is supposed to be about free market competition resulting in more efficient and higher quality results.
Silly rabbit trix are for kids!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 16 2017, @10:19PM (3 children)
As for putting the means of production in the hands of the workers... go buy a 3D printer, desktop CNC or whatever you need. They're affordable because capitalism delivered them. And no, I'm not saying capitalism is perfect, only that socialism is a much greater evil.
(Score: 1) by noneof_theabove on Friday June 16 2017, @11:45PM (2 children)
Humans are "social" animals with the exceptions of lawyers, most politicians(R), and the Liar-in-Chief, they fall under "snakes".
Evidently you failed human history and reading the bible.
Capitalism is a creation of the USA especially having "extreme" in front of it.
Up until a few hundred years ago if you did not participate in your local social group, you were ex-communicated, shunned, and many other variants.
Tell me what good capitalism has brought outside of the ultra rich being enriched which we have become and that is a oligarchy.
Why do I need oranges from Florida when South Texas where I live has plenty.
Why should I call my doctor at 3am ask ask them if I need drug XYZ. [only the US and New Zealand allow advertising drugs]
Why is there no "menu" at the hospital?
So 2 things that should explode your last remaining brain cells.
Welcome to the the United Corporations and Churches of America [UCCA was USA]
Where the real product is the stock and the true customer is the stock holder.
In god we trust, all others pay foreign loan shark interest.
and
You can not control a population that is
1) well educated [will call your bluff] [looking at Betsy DeVos - Education]
2) well funded [for the next 2] [look at R Alexander Acosta - Labor $15/hr does not cut it and CongressCritters for wage gap and no "equal" taxation]
3) well fed [needed for #4] [Sonny Perdue - Agriculture and FDA for allowing DDT and Glyphosate/RoundUp and a long list of crap in & on our food]
4) healthy [ask Napoleon how that march on Russia worked out during the winter.] [CongressCritters for not having Universal Health Care like the rest of the G8 nations]
Remove any 1 of the 4 and you control that population.
Amazing that was written by some ancient Chinese warrior and it is happening today in the "was the greatest country on earth".
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 16 2017, @11:52PM (1 child)
No, can't think of any good. [cato.org] -- sent from my iphone
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Saturday June 17 2017, @08:32AM
They gave me an iPhone. I don't use it. I mean, my intern uses it. The iPhone is the best of the modern cyber, she tells me. But you have to be Einstein to figure it out. Complicated! And let me tell you, a lot, a lot of the modern cyber comes from China. The iPhone and a lot of the cyber. They're eating our lunch, folks. Killing our economy. We've got to bring manufacturing back to the U.S.A. We've got to put the American worker first. We think of Apple as an American company. But they make their product in China. And they have offices here but China makes more money with Apple than we do, if you think about it. And we have to bring Apple -- and other companies like Apple -- back to the United States. We have to do it. And that's one of my real dreams for the country, to get them back. We have a great capacity in this country. If you think about it, they have an advantage in a lot of ways. First of all, they manipulate the hell out of their currency, which just kills us. It makes it so hard to compete. China has zero respect for our country. I will get them to stop. And honestly, they're communists. Not as bad as Cuba. Not as bad as Bernie. But they're communists. Big advantage for them. But we have advantages because the shipping costs and the costs of what they do over there is so enormous. What I think you ought to do is boycott Apple until such time as they bring their manufacturing to the U.S.A. How do you like it? I just thought of that. Boycott Apple. We’re going to get Apple to build their damn computers and things in this country instead of in other countries. To build their cyber in the U.S.A. #TrumpWinery [twitter.com] #MakeAmericaGreatAgain [twitter.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 16 2017, @09:56PM (1 child)
Ah, so the USA is a capitalist country then! After all it walks like a capitalist country, talks like a capitalist country, and murders brown people like a capitalist country, so it must be a capitalist country! Just ignore all the anti-free market stuff that it does because the name makes it true! I think I'm an ANONYMOUS HERO now, so you can't call me a coward! ISIS are righteous freedom fighters because they say they are! North Korea is democratic it's in the name!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 16 2017, @10:42PM
Yes.
Powerful interests.
There's nothing anti-capitalistic about protectionism, what do you think property rights are?
Good for you.
Communism was created for the benefit of the workers!
We got there in the end didn't we?