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Ron Paul Wants To End Anti-Cuban Sanctions
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Lew Rockwell
LRC Blog
February 20, 2008
Ron Paul has always advocated free trade with Cuba: no barriers, no subsidies, and complete freedom for Americans to buy Cuban goods, and American farmers and businessmen to export to Cuba. Ron also knows that free trade means exporting capitalism to Cuba, just what that poor country needs. All the other candidates are for tightening the screws on Cubans (and would-be American traders and visitors). Ron Paul wants to export freedom and private property rights. And good for him for using the occasion of Castro’s resignation to call for an end to immoral and protectionist anti-civilian sanctions.
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February 21st, 2008 at 7:53 am
“However, a conservative third-party candidate could skew the results — and spell trouble for McCain, according to polling results. In that scenario, 19 percent of Texas poll respondents said they would vote for the third-party candidate, 37 percent for McCain and 41 percent for Obama.”
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/PO.....exas.poll/
I wonder if that percentage of supporters for a 3rd Party conservative candidate would grow between now and the general election. This poll was taken before the news of McCain’s love affairs being blasted all over the place. Obama has still yet to win the nomination, and I doubt that Obama will win in Texas overall. The hispanics don’t like Obama and Texas is well over 1/3 hispanic.
February 22nd, 2008 at 12:29 pm
Everybody including Bush were hoping for a real democracy where freedom of speech is permitted, so that Cubans can go back to their country and finally have freedom there. However, Fidel Castro’s son will likely follow his father’s footsteps.
February 22nd, 2008 at 3:38 pm
A LoneStarTimes.com investigation has conclusively established that a leading figure in the American neo-Nazi / White-Supremacist movement has provided financial support to Ron Paul’s 2008 Presidential campaign.
The individual in question is Don Black, the founder, owner and operator of Stormfront, a “white power” website that both professional journalists and watch-dog groups have identified as the premier English-language racist/hate-site on the Internet.
It is believed that in the next few days, Ron Paul will announce his campaign for President as an Independent and that David Duke will be his running mate. Let the real REVOLUTION begin!
February 22nd, 2008 at 6:43 pm
Americans were certain that Russians need capitalism when the Wall fell. Then what happened? A handful of oligarchs bought Russia’s economy. No surprise that they were former Stalinists. Similar results in Cuba are undesirable. The “free market reformers” that the US has backed elsewhere in Latin America were sociopathic murderers and puppets. The armed, marxist unionists of Cuba will die fighting any such Yankee import. The best we can hope for, if the current leadership are really as Stalinist as they are portrayed by the MSM is a genuine socialist political revolution, one that would drastically inscrease the number of workers in the Central Committee and Politboro. Regardless of what you libertarians may think of socialism, Cuban workers are organized and armed, if we want a better life for them, they should feel supported in their struggle to exert their political will and resist any ‘transition’ to oligarchal rule, what the American political establishment promotes as democracy. Given the United States’ long support of dictators and massacres in Latin America, we the people, should be shouting “Hands off Cuba!” Never do we hear any news of the millions of Cubans that support the idea of a rationally planned economy, who will resist foreign companies robbing their islands wealth and limit their access to healthcare, housing and education. Letting Bush or McCain or Billary proceed with their plan would turn Cuba into another Haiti or El Salvador, replete wil starving babies, paramilitary deaths squads to kill the unionists, worse poverty, homelessness, deterioration of Cuban culture and loss of national sovereignty. We can’t let our leaders play parent to the world. Our economic model is unsustainable; unlimited economic growth is impossible with finite resources. Humans have ruined the planet letting a handful of people who behave as if they’re entitled to hoard wealth and power because they own something. It’s a crock of shit, people. Capitalism concentrates power, creates anti-social elites who, unaccountable to the vast majority, are willing to commit any atrocity to maintain their power and feed their addiction. If you are disatisfied with Cuban leadership, support the only social force capable of instituting change for the better, the already-organized working-class and farmers. They make all the wealth, they deserve it. Not some Miami fat cats who have carried out terrorism in the name of democracy for fify years.
February 23rd, 2008 at 4:08 am
rizabuv,
Socialism concentrates power. The free market, a true free market without corporatism and corporate hand-outs from the government (read: monopolies), decentralizes things.
Socialism places the power of the economy in the hands of the inept government we so oft complain about, and is little different from corporatism (a nicer word for fascism). Freedom can only exist in a free market where personal property (including your physical self) are respected as your own property. It requires a somewhat responsible and educated body of subjects to be successful, as is the same requirement for those who wish for a free society in general. Otherwise, start getting prepared for tyranny, for it is sure to come to those not apt enough for a free society.
Those who would sacrifice liberty for security, deserve neither. Socialism is nothing more than a safety net for those who wish for the government to tell people how their money should be spent, and believe you me, the government would loving nothing more than to handle your money and property.
Do more research on economics, please.
February 23rd, 2008 at 4:21 am
The free market (and freedom in general) in the US is being destroyed by a one-two punch of socialism vs. corporatism. Which one will you choose? Socialism (read: communism) or corporatism (read: fascism)? Notice that those seem to be our only choices amongst “the electables” in the elections?
I still choose freedom.
February 23rd, 2008 at 11:00 am
Ron is an incredible human being.. he came out of nowhere with 0 media support and 0 cooperation support and fought with the big dogs for being president of the united states.
cheers to ron, now that he has some free time he can do alot of good like reform the republician party, be the voice of truth, and further the species we call mankind with his realism.
Ron Paul 2012 anyone?
He has a chance to get down and dirty and start some good projects now.. we need to reach out to him and help him with that.. broad subject but this dude is pro demon slayer, he should get to work on getting a pro constitution program going and generally strengthening the moral and intellectual fiber of America.
February 23rd, 2008 at 11:21 am
VXP: Your economic analysis is incomplete. Free markets only decentralizes wealth and power when there are strong anti-trust laws put in place. Have you ever played MONOPOLY? That is what happens when there are no anti-trust laws. The cartels and monopolies win, while the rest of us lose. Think of Mainstream Media, the Oil Cartels, the automobile industry, Big Pharma, the banks, etc. They charge whatever they like, limit our choices of what to buy and no one says anything.
Once companies reach that status, their success should be celebrated. They should be put in a Capitalist Hall of Fame. However, their cartel or monopoly status must not allow them to set prices above free market value. Call it Corporate Tax, call it socialism, call it what ever you want.
Right now this isn’t happening because lobbyists buy off congressmen and senators, & companies like Halliburton make money off the war while the taxpayers (us) foot the bill, which is at $500 trillion–just for Iraq. War profiteers and cartels are siphoning off wealth from the US and are not paying their fair share. That is why this country is going broke.
February 23rd, 2008 at 11:46 am
Jason: Despite your enthusiastic spamming of your admiration for Ron Paul, he has consistently rejected starting projects that might have given him a chance of being elected. He has $6million dollars, enough to begin a legal challenge of the IRS’s authority to collect income tax–he refused. When Ron had a chance before Super Tuesday to make a bold statement by encouraging us to send in signed blank tax returns (which is legal) he printed a retraction on his website to reject it.
Now he could threaten John McCain that if he’s not made VP, he’ll run as an Independent and siphon off votes–he won’t do it. He has stated he will not continue the Revolution as an Independent or third party candidate. The simple fact is that RP has not reached out to other politicians in order to make voters believe his radical reforms are possible. Consequently, he is now coming in fourth in 3 man primaries (pathetic). Ron has essentially abandoned his campaign to retain his cushy, but useless seat in Congress. Ron is an economist, not a politician & certainly not a revolutionary.
If you want a third party candidate, Ralph Nader may be your only choice, & he’ll siphon off votes from the Democrats.