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To: RetiredNow who wrote (1242615)	6/27/2020 11:56:53 AM
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well mi amigo you are wrong again....Cuba was and still is a racist island....even castro son of a spanish soldier did not treat the blacks equally....yet education for all was a reality and they exported doctors!!!! They only remained poor due to their neighbor , the richest country in the world 90 miles from them having a grudge for 60 years because of some rich old assholes in Miami influence. Those old bastards kept the people of Cuba poor and in poverty with the embargoes, and yet not as poor as when they were in charge. So does socialism and communism work?? NO!!! bUT NEITHER DOES KEEPING ANY CLASS of a people subjogated...it leads to revolution....so go tell that "I TOLD YOU SO" to someone else. When people have nothing to lose, they will grasp at anything. Obama saw the stupidity of the Cuban debacle and ended it....but because it was OBAMA, chit for brains Trump reversed it and here we are again...pushing our closest neighbor into the arms of communism. We should have ended this decades ago, because now we have a cuban generation who know nothing but communism, when before Cubans in general were business owners and capitalists...at least the ones in power......Cuba also had legal slavery into the 1880s. But what made Castro...son of a landowner and himself an educated attorney lead a revolution??? I believe it was for power...not the people...but injustice created the opportunity for him to gain power. So don't assume all those against trump and for BLM are socialists or communists....it is assumptions that lead to downfalls of the powers that be. The USA has a great system.....nothing wrong with making it better is there?

To: RetiredNow who wrote (1242615)

6/27/2020 12:09:13 PM

From: Maple MAGA

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Castro is giving a speech at the Revolution Square and says: "Comrades, God willing, this year we will have enough eggs for all the Cuban people!" At which point his brother Raul leans over and says to him: "But Fidel, we are Communists, there is no God." To which Fidel responds in a whisper: "Don't worry. There are no eggs either."

"During a speech, Castro asks: "Is there one, only one among you, who is hungry?" A poor hapless man raises his hands. He is immediately seized by the police and forced to drink a glass of water, then another, and yet another, until he has drunk ten altogether. Then Castro asks him: "Are you still hungry?" The man replies: "No, Comandante, I am not hungry." "Well, you see," replies Fidel, "you really weren't hungry; what you were was thirsty."

In the middle of a speech Fidel is interrupted by a man who cries out: "We want the oppression of the people to end." "Arrest that man," Castro orders. "No, you can't do that," the dissident protests, "because the Socialist Constitution guarantees the right of free speech." "Yes, you are very right," replies Fidel: "Arrest instead everyone who heard him."

In another speech, Fidel tells the people: "We only have wood chips to eat." The people chant in unison: "Give us wood chips, give us wood chips!" A week later, Fidel tells them: "Now we only have stones to eat." And the people shout: "Give us stones, give us stones!" Six months later, Fidel tells the people: "Good news! A ship with humanitarian assistance (food) has just arrived in the port of Havana." And the people shout :"Give us teeth, give us teeth!"

Before the Revolution, there used to be a sign at the Havana Zoo that read: "Please Don't Feed the Animals." After Castro had been in power a couple of years, it was changed to: "Please Don't Take the Animals' Food." Eventually, however, even this was not enough. The sign now reads: "Please Don't Eat the Animals."