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AMERICAN COLLEGE PESTS VISITING CUBA

Even though there was a depression during the 1930s, and my father was out of a job for awhile, there was one thing to be thankful for: we kids grew up in a hurry. We had to, because we all did something to earn a nickel here, a dime there, in order to help the family survive. As a consequence we were more worldly and knowledgeable at a young age and we were certainly not naive; we knew what was going on around us.

So many college students today seem utterly naive, and in many cases, even stupid. Well, there are even some Congressmen who are either stupid, or acting stupidly as well, you take your choice. It is not limited to students, I guess.

But, there's no other answer when students (and Congressmen) go Cuba and they don't see a thing wrong there, that they are so overwhelmed by the people, how nice they are, that they don't see what the government has done to them. They don't seem to understand that it is a Police State and that the ordinary people ARE nice, that even though they may hate the government, they do not dare to protest conditions. American students? Dumb, dumb, dumb, and even dumber. No wonder those movies make so much money!

If your government is oppressive and you don't want to suffer or have your family suffer, you simply play nice guy and go along with it. You may hate Castro, want to see someone stick a knife in his guts and slowly twist it, but you don't dare express those thoughts. He's got the guns. He owns all the guns. He owns your house. He owns your job. He owns everything and those that disagree with him may soon end up in prison, or worse, dead. So you play the game. You accept the conditions and live under the tyranny. You don't hate Americans. You know that your problems are all caused by the Government, which means Fidel Cucaracha Castro.

Many flee. Some get caught and end up in jail, because it is illegal to leave the country. Some drown in the sea. Some suffer days aboard a raft, but eventually make it to shore in Florida and freeeeedomm. Hallelujah.

That's what it is all about. How can these el stupidos (hell, if that isn't Spanish, then let's call it Berkeley Spanish) not understand what's going on? History is replete with the stories of suffering and the executions in communist countries. Five million died in the Russian slave-state of Georgia in the early 30s from the Communists deliberate use of starvation of the farmers (Kulaks) in that Country in order to rid the country of them, whole families slowly dying. There are hundreds of books by people who lived under Socialist systems about how badly things went. Europe finally threw off the Socialist yoke, but still it appeals to many American college students. Damn. El stupidos!

Our student jerks go to Cuba and lounge on a beach by a fine hotel and never wonder why ordinary Cuban citizens are not on the beach alongside of them. They see the lack of a transportation system (except to them) and they don't wonder why Cubans put up with such crap. Wow. Student jerks. Dumb bunnies.

Socialists, of course, see nothing wrong with Cubans being forced to live in poverty. Socialists believe in the great equalizing force of poverty. That's the sacrifice that they must make in order to finally reach a Socialist Paradise.

You don't see, however, American Socialists living under such conditions, do you? Leapin' Lizards, Sandy, don't you wonder what they're studying at Berkeley? Or UCSC? The students from one college go there (to Cuba) on a large ship, where the Great Cockroach comes aboard and gives them a lecture about his wonderful Socialist Government, and they leave, impressed, believers, swallowing his line of crap. Man, what is happening to our young people today? Do they have it too good, so good that it clouds their judgment, warps common sense?

Castro has built nothing; he has forced everyone to live like peasants, except for himself and a few selected followers. The only success in Cuba was engineered by Capitalists. Without that money from foreign investors, even Castro's family might be going around in rags. Noooo, he has salted away some of the billions he got from the USSR. Thank God that Russian Pres. Putin is not so dumb. Now he lets the socialists among the American college students prove just how dumb they are. Viewed from a beautiful beach, like almost anywhere in the world is Paradise.