Economics 101: Nobody walks any more in international trade.
The seller ships to the buyer. The cost of shipping is included in the buyer's
cost of goods. Yes shipping is a cost, but not really that important in today's world....see internet sales...hello?
There are lots of different costs involved in conducting business...shipping is one.
Michael it's not 1800....donkeys have been replaced...it's not even 1950...except in Cuba!
Obviously in today's international trade
shipping is an easily managed business cost.
Examples all over the world show shipping cost is a very minor factor in success or failure.
Unless you are a backward country that cant overcome such a minor obstacle.
The world has advanced past makets being just next door.
Economics 101: The farther the seller has to ship the goods to market,
the more it costs the buyer.And countries all over the globe deal with this super minor problem and prosper....
except cry baby Cuba!...."It's the US fault" but China ships more all over the
world than to it's neighbors.
Economics 101: The farther that perishable goods have to be shipped,
the higher the cost of refrigeration, which is also added to buyer's landed costs.The Netherlands is the world's largest flower exporter....PERISHABLE....to all over the world.
Plus...if you're not a dumbaass...you don't limit yourself to perishable goods.
You create and attract investment...diversification...maybe dats Business 101 too!
The "failure" that the World's Onliest Superpower has been trying to bring down
for half a century and hasn't done so yet? THAT "failure?" LOL...we're doing just fine last time I checked....we're not a failure like Cuba is!
The world is passsing Cuba by.....several lost generations and still counting.
The only whining I hear is from the World's Onliest Superpower - -
the evil Iranians and their evil bomb, the evil Iraqis will destroy us
if we don't invade them first, the evil Islamofascists and how terrible they are.
Give me a fucking break. Nobody whines like Amerikkka whines,
and it is really nauseating. The Cubans aren't whining. LOL....can we say false dichotomy!
Plus we didn't just whine about Saddam...we did something about it.
Even if the US was whining.....
We at least prosper....Cuba whines and produces miserable results....DOUBLE NEGATIVE!
They blame the U.S.A. for their economic hardship and it should be obvious
to any thinking person that a massive boycott like that by the closest market
and the closest supplier is going to hurt. LOL..."economic hardship"....booo who....we cant go next door....so we cry
and suck except other countries prosper because they overcome their obstacles.
if the embargo isn't hurting Cuba economically, why the fuck does the U.S. government
insist on maintaining it even as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is calling for an end to it?
Why? Use your fucking head for christ sake My "fucking" head? What exactly does that mean?
I am not really a big supporter of any embargo on Cuba...
But I do think it is super lame & just plain stupid to blame Cuba's miserable results on a one country embargo.
HOWEVER I think usually the best way to get rid of communists is to not embargo them.
Nixon started the Commi's eventual extinction in China by opening up to China.
China is
less Communist today because Nixon opened the Chinese door.
The same strategy should have been used against Cuba because it would
also hasten the Communist extinction there too.
Hell Cubans could not even have a cell phone or a computer until less than 2 years ago!
It was illegal to own a cell phone!
As soon as you lift even the smallest restriction the opportunities around it mushroom.
It wont be long...until the Cuban people are free to reach their true destiny!
Good advice. Try it some time.I look in the mirror every day and love what I see. I thank God to be in a very successful free
country that has the highest immigration rates in the world because everyone wants to come here!
I live in a country with one of the highest standards of living in the world and whose population lives
better than most human beings that have ever walked the face of the earth.
Bullshit, Big Talker. No Michael...not talk...action....BS walks.....I like countless others...made it on my own
If the California State Government passed a law forbidding you to do any business in the U.S.A. and told you to find new customers but they had to be in Latin America, you'd be out of business the same fucking day that the law was passed. No I wouldn't.....I would immediately find a new business and new customers....believe me Michael I am
not going to sit around and whine....in fact California and New Jersey have sorta done that to business...
those two liberal states are running off business and the business men just leave...
Cya!WouldntWannaBeYa!Take Olhausen Pool Tables...one of the best pool table companies in the world....after being in California for
over 50 years....recently the owners....Butch and Don Olhausen had enough of the California taxes and regulations
and moved the entire operation to Tennesssee....they didn't sit around "woe is me"....they told liberal
California "F-YOU". Olhausen Billiard sells almost 30,000 pool tables a year....and Cali is going BROKE!
For most of the past 50 years, they traded sugar for Russian oil, they built hotels for European and Canadian tourists and they developed medical schools, a medical profession, and medical product lines which they do in fact sell in alternative markets. And how has the worked out?....LOL
Overall...bottom line...piss poor results.
Piss poor results that got much worse after Russians took away the huge subsidies.
No matter who you blame....your score on the scoreboard shows "WE SUCK".
You may not suck as bad as some....but the results are what they are.
It's an AGRICULTURAL country. Why is that?.....thats 1800's talk.
Countries are not limited by what kind of geography they happened to inherit or steal.
This 2010 Michael Tee....
If you create a business friendly environment in the middle of the desert the rising tide
will produce results.
No actually it is that DESPITEe the embargo, they are still able to produce a higher
standard of living for their citizens than most other Caribbean nations.So you are bragging that Cuba stinks, but they just dont stink quite as
bad as other lame ass countries....
You should skip the 'LOL" since it's obvious you don't know what the fuck you are talking about.It's quite funny watching you attempt to defend what is obviously miserable results.
Which I suppose accounts for the dramatic improvement in public education,
literacy, health and housing for the Cuban people following the Revolution.Thats whats really sad...if the Cuban provided stats on say education are anywhere near the truth...
how sad...to have so many educated and produce so little and have such horrible results.
Yeah, actually I would. Maybe you think every creative intelligent person has to be
a greed-driven selfish self-centred animal bastard working only for his own benefit,
but you are dead wrong. So show me examples of countries that don't allow free enterprise that lead the world
in innovation and standards of living?
<<When news of the vaccine's success was made public on April 12, 1955, Salk was hailed as a "miracle worker", and the day "almost became a national holiday." His sole focus had been to develop a safe and effective vaccine as rapidly as possible, with no interest in personal profit. When he was asked in a televised interview who owned the patent to the vaccine, Salk replied: "There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?">>Do we really wanna compare numbers on life-changing medical breakthroughs and medical technologies
from free market countries to Commi Workers Paradises?
Capitalism is founded on selfishness and greed. Yeah and obviously if you look around the world....that works much
better than Communism. Reality is what it is.
Your country produces tons of worthless shitIt PRODUCES period!
Your way produces shitty results!
In no way does your public health match the public health of most other industrialized nations. what a bunch of baloney!
http://smartgirlnation.com/2009/06/popular-ranking-unfairly-misrepresents-the-us-health-care-system/In no way do your public schools match the public schools of most other industrialized nationsOh really?....Well the facts do not show that to be true.
But I do think the US public schools need to be phased out.
They are a vestige of the past and are another indicator of failure of our gvt.
Capitalism results in the enrichment of the few at the expense of the many. Oh really? Ummm how many Commi countries are in the top 20?
http://smartgirlnation.com/2009/06/popular-ranking-unfairly-misrepresents-the-us-health-care-system/Look in your own fucking mirror!
Look at the wealth of the wealthiest, look at the poverty of your poorest. Yeah and those numbers are superior to most countries on earth!
Look at 47 million Americans who don't even have health insurance and the tens of millions
of others who are underinsured. 47 million Americans is a lie.
Millions of that BS number are illegals and not Americans.
Millions of that BS number choose to not have health insurance.
And all of that BS number has access to healthcare.
Healthcare is not health insurance.
millions who have turned to crime because of the
poverty that is their only alternative. what a load of crap
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/recession-shatters-myth-of-poverty-causing-crime/ Capitalism is what has fucked you up .....capitalism is what is still fucking you up.LOL....compared to who?
What Communist country has a higher standard of living than the United States?