Reply #10: Screw ALBA

[social_critic]

The Venezuelans don't have the money to pay the xmas bonuses to their government workers. So forget ALBA, that's a Venezuelan funded operation with no cash to lend. The money can come from Cubans outside Cuba. We don't have to sit on our hands and wait for the gringos to let us do it, there's ways to move cash around. And if the US government doesn't like it, screw them. This is a Cuban helping Cuban thing, and many of us are ready to go help out - but we do want a return for our money, and we want our relatives to move ahead. And this is not acceptable to the communists running the island.

They're still married to outdated and failed marxist-leninist-castroite models. If they let us "exploit" the workers on the island, those workers will mostly be our own relatives, and any exploited worker we exploit will be better off anyway, we can afford to launch businesses paying 10 times what the government pays, make a profit, and get a decent return. But we can't have the communist bureaucracy suffocating commerce, telling us what's to be imported, or how to do things. That's the nature of capitalism. And if they don't like it, they can stuff their communist ideals, and keep on starving, until they are all running aruond in chancletas and eating tree bark.