The "free market", if there ever really was one, offers no answers for anything. The fact that corrupt politicians in so-called democracies, depend on so many contributions from the powerful industries, therefore skewing the Keynesnian ideology, doesn't mean that it isn't better than what ,let's say Milton Friedman proposes. If the working public has to sit around starving while they wait for the market gods to bless the business cycle with an upswing, what happens to them? Free marketeers will say that people will become creative and that is incentive to start a new business. How many people will actually start a new business? Some, but not the majority. The rest just have to imagine that aid will come from the goodness of people who are more fortunate and wait.
I wish that the ex-president you dined with had a name to go with his admitted corruption. I'm sure he was friendly with the governments of the world that partake in the plundering of the public's wealth. When a person is elected and chooses to try and do right for his people, Evo Morales for example, and doesn't go along with the status quo allowing the public's wealth to be syphoned off by the usual suspects, the industrialized world cries foul. Why? Because the most entrenched systematic corruption can be found in the halls of the capitols of Washington and European nations. With all of the power possessed by the hypocritical supporters of the free market system and democracy, They, along with people like you Mr. Montaner, exert a tremendous amount of pressure through economic blackmail and violence to try to ensure that a president who you call a friend can be reinstalled in the place of the honest man.
I'm sure that your "opinion" has more to do with the political drama of the United States than it does with other countries, but your support for regimes that rob from their people flies in the face of any argument you might have in opposition to the Keynesnian ideology. Over the past thirty years the transfer of wealth from workers to the elite, thanks in large part to the trickle down theory made famous by Reagan, has left people in the US in an extremely weak situation. It is long overdue, but the politicians of both political parties have almost abandoned any ideas based on Keynes. Unless of course we want to speak about the highly profitable military industrial complex, which is an unfortunate example that would help prove Keynes theory correct. If only half, if not more of what is spent on an industry that thrives on death and destruction, were to be spent on projects that build instead of destroy, there would be numerous examples to help prove Keynesnian theory much more sound than the hopeful free market religion. When the public's money is invested properly in the economy, it is the first domino in a line of businesses that compliment the original expenditure. It is not hard to comprehend.
The reason that people are tired of government spending is that so much of it is done as favors for powerful contributors. The allocated money is not well planned and often wasted. The people loss faith, not in an economic theory, but in the ability of the elected officials to make rational use of the public's money. People often curl into a sort of survival mentality and would, out of emotional frustration, rather the government stop spending. People are easily tricked into believing things like social security is a wasteful Ponzi scheme by either dishonest politicians playing on their fears.
Why is it that the Social Security fund has enough money that it can be lent to the general budget yet it is the target of fiscal irresponsibility? Wouldn't the general budget, the one from which the actual money is passed to the fat cat contributors be a more logical example of where government waste can be eliminated? If the public had a better understanding of the situation, the demands of the government would be different. But as an extension of the "free market", the corporate media is the main source of information for the rightly disgruntled public. We somehow confuse free press with honest reporting, and although much reporting is honest, it is what is left out of the conversation that causes the lack of an informed public. Of course the corporate media has a an agenda, its own. It needs rating for for advertising dollars and so on and so on. There is no reason for a corporate media to go against its interests and explain the whole situation to the public. The public would react in ways that are likely to chip away at the powers that the giant political donors enjoy, the media conglomerates included.
So once again Mr. Montaner, you use your pulpit to argue against the truth. This time about economic theory instead of the usual misrepresentations and slanders against Cuba, Venezuela, and other nations that won't follow the dictates of the self-proclaimed rulers of the hemisphere.
Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/09/19/2415273/keynes-and-corruption.html#ixzz1YS55dF8c
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Monday, September 19, 2011
Sunday, September 18, 2011
Political Refugees from Cuba?
There is a lot of controversy here in the United States about the fact that so many Cubans who have taken advantage of the chance to be given political asylum often travel back to Cuba. The idea of granting political asylum to people is based on the assumption that they were persecuted in their country. This is something that can be granted to anyone from anywhere if the US believes that the claim of persecution is true. Sometimes it is.
But a special situation has been given to Cubans arriving in the US without going through the visa process. Because of the US' insistence that Cuba is a repressive country along with the strong anti-Cuban lobby here in the US, this policy has been maintained even though it is found to be baseless by the fact that Cubans are welcomed to travel freely to the country that supposedly had been persecuting them. Certainly if the persecution really existed, these people wouldn't be so quick to travel back worry free.
Now there are congress people who want to prevent these Cubans from travelling to Cuba without obtaining their US citizenship first, which would mean that they would have to wait years before visiting their families. Do the anti-Cuba politicians really want to prevent these visits? Of course they do. They want everyone to cut personal ties with their families on the island. They would much rather do this than address the real issue of the refugee status. Why?
The reason the issue of refugee status won't be addressed is because when we find out that almost none of those who took advantage of the purely political "refugee" advantage given to Cubans and Cubans only, then what? The US would be left trying to explain its way out of the situation that it has almost created by itself.
This is a policy that exists for the sole purpose of creating the myth of extreme persecution in Cuba. In the past, there were certain times of persecution and the leaders of Cuba have admitted this. There was a time where anything that questioned or opposed the Revolution was quickly accused of being counter-revolutionary. At times those "counter-revolutionaries" were in fact working for foreign governments and other times they were simply not. It is an unfortunate thing that happens in one way or another in every country, not only in Cuba. The US is no exception.
There is no reason to grant asylum to most people coming from Cuba. Our government knows this well. The people we hear about, from the Ladies in White to the hunger strikers who are heralded in our press as heroes are all working in conjunction with either the officials at the US Interests Section or their support groups with ties to Washington in Miami. This is not propaganda, but a fact that has been revealed by wikileaks and undercover Cuban agents who have infiltrated the ranks of these people.
If the US seriously would like the "civil liberties" aspect of Cuba to improve even more than it has already, it wouldn't continue with its expensive and wasteful projects that don't respect the sovereignty of Cuba. As I said above, when a public feels threatened by a foreign menace, it unfairly lumps entire groups of people together and targets them. The US spies on its own citizens and always has to one degree or another. The CIA and NYPD have recently been exposed for working together to infiltrate mosques and monitor street vendors and cab drivers simply because of their religion. Is that program not supposedly justified here because of the War on Terror? Many individuals are unfairly being targeted for having a particular religion.
So by maintaining this wet-foot/ dry-foot policy and granting a special political asylum to Cubans, the United States is trying to create facts. Statistically we can show how many people request political asylum from Cuba, but in reality it is hard to explain the lack of persecution when they are more than happy to return to visit family on the island. They are welcomed to return and can do so whenever they'd like.
By saying that the persecution issue is blown tremendously out of proportion doesn't mean that I'm saying that life is perfect or easy on the island for everyone. I'm simply stating that in the absence of the Soviet influence excuse and the "exporting revolution" excuse, the US is stuck trying to rationalize its embargo against Cuba. The democracy issue is a subjective opinion, not an objective one. No country has figured out how to actually implement true democracy, so each country finds a form of it that it feels works best for its particular circumstance. An argument can be made that a parliamentary system like many European countries have is more democratic than a representative republic in which there is no recourse for an unpopular representative, except to wait for the next scheduled election to vote in a new person. There are many views of democracy which are not limited to either this or nothing. So the excuse is now "a lack of democracy" in Cuba, as if the US is the final judge as to what constitutes democracy. That is why the US sticks with the incorrect wet-foot/ dry-foot policy and is helpless to prevent the reality of the false political persecution from being exposed by the Cuban immigrants to this country themselves.
But a special situation has been given to Cubans arriving in the US without going through the visa process. Because of the US' insistence that Cuba is a repressive country along with the strong anti-Cuban lobby here in the US, this policy has been maintained even though it is found to be baseless by the fact that Cubans are welcomed to travel freely to the country that supposedly had been persecuting them. Certainly if the persecution really existed, these people wouldn't be so quick to travel back worry free.
Now there are congress people who want to prevent these Cubans from travelling to Cuba without obtaining their US citizenship first, which would mean that they would have to wait years before visiting their families. Do the anti-Cuba politicians really want to prevent these visits? Of course they do. They want everyone to cut personal ties with their families on the island. They would much rather do this than address the real issue of the refugee status. Why?
The reason the issue of refugee status won't be addressed is because when we find out that almost none of those who took advantage of the purely political "refugee" advantage given to Cubans and Cubans only, then what? The US would be left trying to explain its way out of the situation that it has almost created by itself.
This is a policy that exists for the sole purpose of creating the myth of extreme persecution in Cuba. In the past, there were certain times of persecution and the leaders of Cuba have admitted this. There was a time where anything that questioned or opposed the Revolution was quickly accused of being counter-revolutionary. At times those "counter-revolutionaries" were in fact working for foreign governments and other times they were simply not. It is an unfortunate thing that happens in one way or another in every country, not only in Cuba. The US is no exception.
There is no reason to grant asylum to most people coming from Cuba. Our government knows this well. The people we hear about, from the Ladies in White to the hunger strikers who are heralded in our press as heroes are all working in conjunction with either the officials at the US Interests Section or their support groups with ties to Washington in Miami. This is not propaganda, but a fact that has been revealed by wikileaks and undercover Cuban agents who have infiltrated the ranks of these people.
If the US seriously would like the "civil liberties" aspect of Cuba to improve even more than it has already, it wouldn't continue with its expensive and wasteful projects that don't respect the sovereignty of Cuba. As I said above, when a public feels threatened by a foreign menace, it unfairly lumps entire groups of people together and targets them. The US spies on its own citizens and always has to one degree or another. The CIA and NYPD have recently been exposed for working together to infiltrate mosques and monitor street vendors and cab drivers simply because of their religion. Is that program not supposedly justified here because of the War on Terror? Many individuals are unfairly being targeted for having a particular religion.
So by maintaining this wet-foot/ dry-foot policy and granting a special political asylum to Cubans, the United States is trying to create facts. Statistically we can show how many people request political asylum from Cuba, but in reality it is hard to explain the lack of persecution when they are more than happy to return to visit family on the island. They are welcomed to return and can do so whenever they'd like.
By saying that the persecution issue is blown tremendously out of proportion doesn't mean that I'm saying that life is perfect or easy on the island for everyone. I'm simply stating that in the absence of the Soviet influence excuse and the "exporting revolution" excuse, the US is stuck trying to rationalize its embargo against Cuba. The democracy issue is a subjective opinion, not an objective one. No country has figured out how to actually implement true democracy, so each country finds a form of it that it feels works best for its particular circumstance. An argument can be made that a parliamentary system like many European countries have is more democratic than a representative republic in which there is no recourse for an unpopular representative, except to wait for the next scheduled election to vote in a new person. There are many views of democracy which are not limited to either this or nothing. So the excuse is now "a lack of democracy" in Cuba, as if the US is the final judge as to what constitutes democracy. That is why the US sticks with the incorrect wet-foot/ dry-foot policy and is helpless to prevent the reality of the false political persecution from being exposed by the Cuban immigrants to this country themselves.
Sunday, June 12, 2011
Part 2: Response to Freedom House Cuba Report
I'll begin part 2 by adressing the claims made in the Executive Summary section of the Freedom House report.
The report was created by compiling the results of 120 interviews on the island of Cuba which has a population over 11 million. By sending 5 researchers to the island in its attempt to make generalized assumptions about the feelings and opinions of the Cuban people. Just the idea that 120 people could accurately reflect the will of an entire nation is a bit of a stretch. But even among those 120, some of the responses were enough to demonstrate that the line of propaganda that spews from Miami is not accurate. Much of the context of the report is based on the reforms outlined by the Cuban government in recent months. The reforms expect to update the systems in Cuba so that it is more able to perform independently and productively in the world as it is today.
The Cuban government announced the elimination of redundant and unnecessary workers on the government's payroll of around 1 million jobs. This would cut the public workforce by about 20%. I can't find any reason why the Republicans in Miami would have an ideological dispute with Cuba having a smaller government since they preach the same thing over here. The Miami media has done its best to evoke sympathy for the people left without jobs, a point quite silly coming from people who support the policy of causing hardship for the people in Cuba. The Cuban government has stated that these jobs will not be eliminated at a fast pace so that the "private" sector will be able to absorb these workers. It has made it quite clear that it does not intend to leave people lost in limbo to starve or lose their homes or anything else for that matter during this process. One of the aims is to create a culture of work which to a certain extent has been lost due to the existence of redundancies at state controlled workplaces.
The Freedom House study would try to suggest that "despite hopes" people don't expect personal benefits from the reforms. Given the fact that Cubans, just like much of the world is suffering from the downturn in the global economy, the high hopes of the Cuban people are no different than the rest of the world. The question arises in my mind if they included in their 120 people any who have started their own businesses and are actually already seeing a difference in their personal situations. Many people have taken advantage of the new situation and began to increase their incomes drastically and have been able to do so without the risks of losing their access to housing or healthcare, things that certainly people risk in our own country in their entrpreneurial pursuits. In their attempts to portray a dire situation on the island they point out the fact that many surveyed describe their situation as "tight". In all fairness they are not comparing Cuba to the U.S., but it would be a good if they would have some sort of admittance that this is a sentiment not unique in Cuba. Presenting facts that private businesses are subject to hefty taxes and fines for violations suggests that inspectors may be doing their jobs as are inspectors in our own country. Here too there are fines for violations and business are also expected to pay taxes which according to the business community are also to high. The one time argument that Cubans didn't have access to the same places and things that foreigners do is blown out of the water as the study admits that these restrictions were eliminated already. The complaint that prices are too high for people's incomes is in many cases true, but as people find work in the growing private sector their incomes will undoubtedly grow. More people will have the ability to spend money in these places just as have the taxi drivers and others who have been earning money and going to these places in the past years. Is there an outcry in our media about the fact that many people don't earn enough money to afford a family vacation at Disney World or any of the hotels that more well off people con stay in? Not really, so why if everyone on the island has equal rights to pay for types of things but not all can afford it be a concern for the people that write this report?
Several respondants spoke of their efforts to leave the country with exit permits. Did they speak of the countless denials for visas by the American Interests Section in Havana? Without a visa what good is an exit permit? Just days ago the mother of the hunger striker who died last year arrived in the United States. How many people did she skip in line for the single reason of being able to make a show out of her for the Miami audience? I bring this up only because the report mentions the prisoner release last year in which most but not all were moved to Spain only to find themselves complaining about life there too!
The rport is honest enough to include one person's opinion that the government will implement them correctly. This can easily be construed as people having confidence in the competence of the Cuban government. Quickly to battle this idea of confidence though, the report then cites a woman who fears a loss of the ration books that all Cubans rely on and rising prices they will be thrown into a life in which she will no longer survive. I'll once again point out the fact that the government is aware of this situation and has reaffirmed that along with the gradual phasing out of the ration book there will necessarily be an increase of the purchasing power of the currency so that the change will not cause these worries she expressed to become a reality. Then they rely on a former prostitute to provide us with someone who believes that as long as a Castro is in power, changes are not possible. This is obviously ignoring the reality that though a Castro is still in the leadership these reforms are already taking place.
At the time of this report being released, the blog Generation Y by Yoani Sanchez is not blocked and hasn't been so for at least a year. So why is a woman who got the chance to see the blog on the internet included in the report wondering why the blog is blocked? It must be an attempt to consistantly perpetuate the idea that only what the government allows is assessible by the people. If the report is created to give a better understanding of what is happening on the island then it shouldn't include thes types of inaccuracies. "Internet and email along with cell phone use remains low" states the report. Of course internet remains at low levels since the infrastructure is only now beginning to take shape as a cable was just a few months ago connected to the island. Cell phone use is flourishing on the island and it is obvious to anyone who has been there. Text messages are prefered to calls since they are much cheaper than the call minutes on the phone cards that charge the phones for usage.
The report seems complimentary to the seemingly progressive social values of the Cuban people. Although it does characterize Cubans as being isolated from each other which makes no sense since people know their neighbors very well and come to rely on each other in many instances. The study attemps to suggest that Cubans are different than other Latin Americans in this respect which actually seems to suggest that despite being "isolated", they have managed to form progressive ideas. It also ignores the fact that many of the Latin American countries have elected governments, that we accuse all the time of being Cuba-like, rejecting the conservative politics that they have endured for decades if not longer.
To be continued (with pleasure!).....
The report was created by compiling the results of 120 interviews on the island of Cuba which has a population over 11 million. By sending 5 researchers to the island in its attempt to make generalized assumptions about the feelings and opinions of the Cuban people. Just the idea that 120 people could accurately reflect the will of an entire nation is a bit of a stretch. But even among those 120, some of the responses were enough to demonstrate that the line of propaganda that spews from Miami is not accurate. Much of the context of the report is based on the reforms outlined by the Cuban government in recent months. The reforms expect to update the systems in Cuba so that it is more able to perform independently and productively in the world as it is today.
The Cuban government announced the elimination of redundant and unnecessary workers on the government's payroll of around 1 million jobs. This would cut the public workforce by about 20%. I can't find any reason why the Republicans in Miami would have an ideological dispute with Cuba having a smaller government since they preach the same thing over here. The Miami media has done its best to evoke sympathy for the people left without jobs, a point quite silly coming from people who support the policy of causing hardship for the people in Cuba. The Cuban government has stated that these jobs will not be eliminated at a fast pace so that the "private" sector will be able to absorb these workers. It has made it quite clear that it does not intend to leave people lost in limbo to starve or lose their homes or anything else for that matter during this process. One of the aims is to create a culture of work which to a certain extent has been lost due to the existence of redundancies at state controlled workplaces.
The Freedom House study would try to suggest that "despite hopes" people don't expect personal benefits from the reforms. Given the fact that Cubans, just like much of the world is suffering from the downturn in the global economy, the high hopes of the Cuban people are no different than the rest of the world. The question arises in my mind if they included in their 120 people any who have started their own businesses and are actually already seeing a difference in their personal situations. Many people have taken advantage of the new situation and began to increase their incomes drastically and have been able to do so without the risks of losing their access to housing or healthcare, things that certainly people risk in our own country in their entrpreneurial pursuits. In their attempts to portray a dire situation on the island they point out the fact that many surveyed describe their situation as "tight". In all fairness they are not comparing Cuba to the U.S., but it would be a good if they would have some sort of admittance that this is a sentiment not unique in Cuba. Presenting facts that private businesses are subject to hefty taxes and fines for violations suggests that inspectors may be doing their jobs as are inspectors in our own country. Here too there are fines for violations and business are also expected to pay taxes which according to the business community are also to high. The one time argument that Cubans didn't have access to the same places and things that foreigners do is blown out of the water as the study admits that these restrictions were eliminated already. The complaint that prices are too high for people's incomes is in many cases true, but as people find work in the growing private sector their incomes will undoubtedly grow. More people will have the ability to spend money in these places just as have the taxi drivers and others who have been earning money and going to these places in the past years. Is there an outcry in our media about the fact that many people don't earn enough money to afford a family vacation at Disney World or any of the hotels that more well off people con stay in? Not really, so why if everyone on the island has equal rights to pay for types of things but not all can afford it be a concern for the people that write this report?
Several respondants spoke of their efforts to leave the country with exit permits. Did they speak of the countless denials for visas by the American Interests Section in Havana? Without a visa what good is an exit permit? Just days ago the mother of the hunger striker who died last year arrived in the United States. How many people did she skip in line for the single reason of being able to make a show out of her for the Miami audience? I bring this up only because the report mentions the prisoner release last year in which most but not all were moved to Spain only to find themselves complaining about life there too!
The rport is honest enough to include one person's opinion that the government will implement them correctly. This can easily be construed as people having confidence in the competence of the Cuban government. Quickly to battle this idea of confidence though, the report then cites a woman who fears a loss of the ration books that all Cubans rely on and rising prices they will be thrown into a life in which she will no longer survive. I'll once again point out the fact that the government is aware of this situation and has reaffirmed that along with the gradual phasing out of the ration book there will necessarily be an increase of the purchasing power of the currency so that the change will not cause these worries she expressed to become a reality. Then they rely on a former prostitute to provide us with someone who believes that as long as a Castro is in power, changes are not possible. This is obviously ignoring the reality that though a Castro is still in the leadership these reforms are already taking place.
At the time of this report being released, the blog Generation Y by Yoani Sanchez is not blocked and hasn't been so for at least a year. So why is a woman who got the chance to see the blog on the internet included in the report wondering why the blog is blocked? It must be an attempt to consistantly perpetuate the idea that only what the government allows is assessible by the people. If the report is created to give a better understanding of what is happening on the island then it shouldn't include thes types of inaccuracies. "Internet and email along with cell phone use remains low" states the report. Of course internet remains at low levels since the infrastructure is only now beginning to take shape as a cable was just a few months ago connected to the island. Cell phone use is flourishing on the island and it is obvious to anyone who has been there. Text messages are prefered to calls since they are much cheaper than the call minutes on the phone cards that charge the phones for usage.
The report seems complimentary to the seemingly progressive social values of the Cuban people. Although it does characterize Cubans as being isolated from each other which makes no sense since people know their neighbors very well and come to rely on each other in many instances. The study attemps to suggest that Cubans are different than other Latin Americans in this respect which actually seems to suggest that despite being "isolated", they have managed to form progressive ideas. It also ignores the fact that many of the Latin American countries have elected governments, that we accuse all the time of being Cuba-like, rejecting the conservative politics that they have endured for decades if not longer.
To be continued (with pleasure!).....
Response to Freedom House's Report on Cuba (June 9, 2011)Part 1
Due to the 40 pages or so of the report issued by Freedom House along with my own time constraints, I will write a reponse in a few parts. I will meticulously point out the problems that this report contains point by point as I feel it is necessary do so that people are not left with an incorrect impression as to the happenings in Cuba.
Freedom House has declined to accept it's share of the proposed $20 million for "democracy" programs and it is a good thing. Based on what they have to show for last years' allocations, it should be quite obvious to the American people that these funds could be used for something more productive right here at home.
The actual report can be found at http://freedomhouse.org/uploads/special_report/102.pdf for anyone interested at reading it.
Freedom House has declined to accept it's share of the proposed $20 million for "democracy" programs and it is a good thing. Based on what they have to show for last years' allocations, it should be quite obvious to the American people that these funds could be used for something more productive right here at home.
The actual report can be found at http://freedomhouse.org/uploads/special_report/102.pdf for anyone interested at reading it.
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Radio Marti New and Improved!
Fox News Latino has given us all a good reason to continue throwing our tax dollars at Radio Marti. At least that's what the folks at that abberation of a news agency thinks it has done. In reality the group of "conservatives" over there have excused another waste of tax dollars as they defend the hopelessly lost government project aimed at subverting reality in the hopes of causing damage to the sovereign country of Cuba. The "conservatives" rarely balk at such waste, as they can't resist the attempts to dominate other nations. If it comes to the well being of our own country though, according to them, well we shouldn't be doing anything. The market gods will figure that out. Unfortunately, the same can be said for much of the other party.
The honest people at Fox begin by telling us that this useless entity, Radio Marti, is "keeping pace with the times" having made a slick transition towards social media and other marvelous platforms. The new director has worked hard and is proud of the new tactics of propaganda being employed by this heroic organization whose results over the past thirty years have cost the American people around $500,000,000.
By using Twitter and Facebook, theese guys claim to have been able to aid the flow of their message to the island. This is a great acheivement since what we have been paying for was easily blocked by the Cuban government and was nothing more than something to fan the flames of the extremists in Miami. It is actually interesting that in their excitement, they have admitted to having been a total waste in the meantime. But wait, that's not it. They seem to have exposed one of their own fantasies in this stunning admission. They contend that they are connecting with oh so many people through the use of the internet. What fantasy have they exposed? The one where they almost constantly accuse the Cuban government of denying people access to the internet. Well, I suppose that they won't worry about this minor detail from the story they have weaved. Remember guys, if you tell a lie, it gets bigger and bigger until you can't keep track of your own story. This game of contradicting themselves by the anti-Cuba crowd seems to be happening more often these days, as they feel the pressures of the real world pushing them into what will be almost total irrelevance . They are losing ground and credibility day by day as their excuses are becoming extinct. They seem to be the ones who are unable to adapt to things as they fight to bring back a past that is already long gone.
The newly renovated waste site, excuse me, web site touts between 600 to 4000 hits a day. That's one hell of a range! I wonder how many hits are in Miami and elsewhere and how many are on the island. At this point I'll just have to wonder, since that little bit of useful information wasn't brought up in the article. They admit that, just as in the case of the radio an television stations, it is very possible and likely that the Cuban government blocks the internet sites to. Sounds like we will continue to throw money into this new and improved bottomless pit for no reason other than to appease the powerful extremists in Miami. The budget for this garbage was decreased by four million dollars this year to just under thirty million dollars. This should make the conservative budget warriors a little more comfortable as they search for beneficial programs for the American people to cut. But despite this decrease in funding, the director assures the folks at Fox that the programming hasn't suffered, it actually has improved! (As if Fox News is concerned with the quality of broadcasting!) Enjoy the new website Miami. Tweet to your heart's content, but remember that these recent revolutions elsewhere in the world were not products of the wack jobs in an exile's paradise. They were homegrown and genuine, and the people in Cuba are moving on without you.
The honest people at Fox begin by telling us that this useless entity, Radio Marti, is "keeping pace with the times" having made a slick transition towards social media and other marvelous platforms. The new director has worked hard and is proud of the new tactics of propaganda being employed by this heroic organization whose results over the past thirty years have cost the American people around $500,000,000.
By using Twitter and Facebook, theese guys claim to have been able to aid the flow of their message to the island. This is a great acheivement since what we have been paying for was easily blocked by the Cuban government and was nothing more than something to fan the flames of the extremists in Miami. It is actually interesting that in their excitement, they have admitted to having been a total waste in the meantime. But wait, that's not it. They seem to have exposed one of their own fantasies in this stunning admission. They contend that they are connecting with oh so many people through the use of the internet. What fantasy have they exposed? The one where they almost constantly accuse the Cuban government of denying people access to the internet. Well, I suppose that they won't worry about this minor detail from the story they have weaved. Remember guys, if you tell a lie, it gets bigger and bigger until you can't keep track of your own story. This game of contradicting themselves by the anti-Cuba crowd seems to be happening more often these days, as they feel the pressures of the real world pushing them into what will be almost total irrelevance . They are losing ground and credibility day by day as their excuses are becoming extinct. They seem to be the ones who are unable to adapt to things as they fight to bring back a past that is already long gone.
The newly renovated waste site, excuse me, web site touts between 600 to 4000 hits a day. That's one hell of a range! I wonder how many hits are in Miami and elsewhere and how many are on the island. At this point I'll just have to wonder, since that little bit of useful information wasn't brought up in the article. They admit that, just as in the case of the radio an television stations, it is very possible and likely that the Cuban government blocks the internet sites to. Sounds like we will continue to throw money into this new and improved bottomless pit for no reason other than to appease the powerful extremists in Miami. The budget for this garbage was decreased by four million dollars this year to just under thirty million dollars. This should make the conservative budget warriors a little more comfortable as they search for beneficial programs for the American people to cut. But despite this decrease in funding, the director assures the folks at Fox that the programming hasn't suffered, it actually has improved! (As if Fox News is concerned with the quality of broadcasting!) Enjoy the new website Miami. Tweet to your heart's content, but remember that these recent revolutions elsewhere in the world were not products of the wack jobs in an exile's paradise. They were homegrown and genuine, and the people in Cuba are moving on without you.
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