XPost: alt.activism, alt.california, alt.politics.bush   
   XPost: alt.politics.republicans, ba.politics, ca.politics   
   From: standesd_DIGA_NO_A_SPAM@earthlink.net   
      
   "Zenin"  wrote in message   
   news:10a0pqdlvn1680@news.supernews.com...   
   > In ba.politics "Ken [NY)"  wrote:   
   >     >snip   
   > >        People in Cuba - those not in prisons - drive 53 Chevies or are   
   > > reduced to riding bicycles. Their economy is not capable of producing   
   > > products such as automobiles. Yugoslavia, as a communist country,   
   produced   
   > > the Yugo, and there I rest my case.   
   >   
   >     Of course neither socialism or communism were designed to live in a   
   >     vacuum, such as that created by the decades old US embargo of Cuba   
   which   
   >     make it rather difficult to trade with places that for instance make   
   >     cars.   
   >   
   >     That said the US embargo of Cuba includes pesticides and the lack of   
   >     such has prompted Cuba to invest considerably in researching organic   
   >     farming methods, so much so they now lead the world in organic farming   
   >     methods.  Woops, how did we let that happen?   
      
   Cuba is free to buy goods from most other nations, including Canada, Mexico,   
   and the EU. They simply have no hard currency because of their failed   
   economic policies.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)