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Obama relaxes trade restrictions with Cuba

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The Obama administration further relaxed economic restrictions on Cuba today, allowing more collaboration on medical research, the approval of Cuban drugs for import and the lifting of monetary limits on cigars and rum imports.
The moves make the U.S. openings to Cuba "irreversible," President Barack Obama said in a statement.


"This directive takes a comprehensive and whole-of-government approach to promote engagement with the Cuban government and people, and make our opening to Cuba irreversible," he said.

The latest changes build on the president's announcement in December 2014 to charted a new course for the U.S.-Cuba relationship, Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew said in a statement.


Read more: Obama relaxes trade restrictions with Cuba - POLITICO

Well... Thanks Obama!

 
Meh, why not just get it over and put out an EO declaring the United States a Communist country, and Obama can appoint himself as ruler for life....

So let me follow your logic here: Since the US has diplomatic relations with Cuba and now if you travel to Cuba you can bring back as many Cuban cigars and rum you want, the USA is close to becoming a communist county?

:doh

Now that is one idiotic premise.
 
Meh, why not just get it over and put out an EO declaring the United States a Communist country, and Obama can appoint himself as ruler for life....

Nomination for the dumbest post of the year, right here.
 
Only a quarter century after the fall of the Soviet Union, we finally have a president who is willing to relax trade restrictions on Cuba.

About time.
 
So let me follow your logic here: Since the US has diplomatic relations with Cuba and now if you travel to Cuba you can bring back as many Cuban cigars and rum you want, the USA is close to becoming a communist county?

:doh

Now that is one idiotic premise.

Don't you understand? Because it's OBAMA opening up business with COMMUNIST Cuba it's all bad and that means in a few years we'll be a communist country. But because we've been doing business with COMMUNIST China LONG before Obama AND with the blessing of the GOP. That's OK. There's no chance of the US becoming Communist.

That's RW ODS logic.
 
So let me follow your logic here:

Doubt you can, but give er a go....

Since the US has diplomatic relations with Cuba and now if you travel to Cuba you can bring back as many Cuban cigars and rum you want, the USA is close to becoming a communist county?

And a swing and a miss...As I thought....Look, nothing like that...But, our Dear Leader seems to show affinity for Communist/Socialist Nations, so I was just lamenting that he should just take off the mask, he's running out of time.
 
Only a quarter century after the fall of the Soviet Union, we finally have a president who is willing to relax trade restrictions on Cuba.

About time.

Did his open hand cause any difference in their treatment of their people?
 
Did his open hand cause any difference in their treatment of their people?

No more so than the embargo.

Are we to embargo all of the nations that don't treat their people well?
 
Doubt you can, but give er a go....



And a swing and a miss...As I thought....Look, nothing like that...But, our Dear Leader seems to show affinity for Communist/Socialist Nations, so I was just lamenting that he should just take off the mask, he's running out of time.

:lamo Was Nixon a communist because he opened up relations with Red China?
 
This is one of the few things I applaud Obama for.
 
Strawman....I doubt that Nixon had the affinity for Communism that Obama does.

Its not a strawman. Im simply using your narrow minded logic.
 
Strawman....I doubt that Nixon had the affinity for Communism that Obama does.
Nixon was a moderate. These days, that means he'd be classified as at best a RINO, or more likely a Commie Pinko:

- He was a Keynesian
- He put the final nail in the coffin of the Gold Standard
- He froze prices and wages temporarily
- He expanded government programs
- He expanded black voting rights and required affirmative action for govt contracts (note, he was also a virulent racist and anti-semite in private)
- He wanted to integrate schools
- He created the EPA
- He passed the Clean Air Act
- Pushed for trade with China
- Was in favor of free trade
- Helped extend the vote to 18 year olds
- Was against Presidential term limits
- Strongly favored gun control, wanted laws stricter than the Brady Bill
- Wanted national health insurance
- Was generally pro-immigration
- Thought it was OK to increase taxes
- Proposed a national income guarantee (N.B. he wasn't a huge fan of welfare overall)
- Founded Legal Services, which provides free legal services for the poor in civil cases
- Was pro-choice / did nothing when Roe v Wade was decided during his term

While he held many positions that we'd call conservative today (e.g. pro school choice), it seems fairly evident that he holds a lot more in common with the policies of Barak Obama than with Ted Cruz.
 
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