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]]> By: UnBaked http://www.theagitator.com/2004/04/15/well-nobodys-perfect/comment-page-1/#comment-43707 UnBaked Mon, 19 Apr 2004 10:38:09 +0000 http://dev.theagitator.com/?p=3956#comment-43707 wait... wait... pot isn't legal in Jamaica? wait... wait… wait…

pot isn’t legal in Jamaica?

wait…

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.theagitator.com/2004/04/15/well-nobodys-perfect/comment-page-1/#comment-43706 Anonymous Fri, 16 Apr 2004 17:53:46 +0000 http://dev.theagitator.com/?p=3956#comment-43706 Jamaica has the worlds finest coffee, so it is/can be more then just tourism. Jamaica has the worlds finest coffee, so it is/can be more then just tourism.

]]> By: DougB http://www.theagitator.com/2004/04/15/well-nobodys-perfect/comment-page-1/#comment-43705 DougB Fri, 16 Apr 2004 16:00:16 +0000 http://dev.theagitator.com/?p=3956#comment-43705 Also Canada and Jamaica itself are routes to Cuba that any American may take. Also Canada and Jamaica itself are routes to Cuba that any American may take.

]]> By: Garth http://www.theagitator.com/2004/04/15/well-nobodys-perfect/comment-page-1/#comment-43704 Garth Fri, 16 Apr 2004 15:18:35 +0000 http://dev.theagitator.com/?p=3956#comment-43704 Corquando, Used to be that you could get a connection to Havana via Mexico and I assume it would be easy enough to do soo via many European cities. I don't know if the strained relations btwn Cuba and Mexico under the Fox Admin has changed anything. As for Wade's comparison to Jamaica: there are really only two reasons that I might consider prefering being born an average Jamaican over an average Cuban: the prospect that pot will probably soon be legal and that I might have the opportunity to move to the US w/out risking my life. Corquando,

Used to be that you could get a connection to Havana via Mexico and I assume it would be easy enough to do soo via many European cities. I don’t know if the strained relations btwn Cuba and Mexico under the Fox Admin has changed anything.

As for Wade’s comparison to Jamaica: there are really only two reasons that I might consider prefering being born an average Jamaican over an average Cuban: the prospect that pot will probably soon be legal and that I might have the opportunity to move to the US w/out risking my life.

]]> By: Bernard http://www.theagitator.com/2004/04/15/well-nobodys-perfect/comment-page-1/#comment-43703 Bernard Fri, 16 Apr 2004 13:40:40 +0000 http://dev.theagitator.com/?p=3956#comment-43703 Liberal democracy in Jamaica has been spiced with periods of socialist madness also, including some involving direct influence from Castro's Cuba. I'm not going to tell you that Jamaica would be rich but for those, its political problems and the fluctuations of the global commodities markets have fostered clumsy progress, but there's no political situation so bad that a little central planning can't make it worse. Remember also that for years Cuba was propped up by direct injections of resources and currency from the USSR. Now that those are gone, it is gradually moving toward the kind of reforms which are necessary in the real world. So, you're right that there are other factors involved, but communism has still been a bad dream for the majority of Cuban citizens. Liberal democracy in Jamaica has been spiced with periods of socialist madness also, including some involving direct influence from Castro’s Cuba.

I’m not going to tell you that Jamaica would be rich but for those, its political problems and the fluctuations of the global commodities markets have fostered clumsy progress, but there’s no political situation so bad that a little central planning can’t make it worse.

Remember also that for years Cuba was propped up by direct injections of resources and currency from the USSR. Now that those are gone, it is gradually moving toward the kind of reforms which are necessary in the real world.

So, you’re right that there are other factors involved, but communism has still been a bad dream for the majority of Cuban citizens.

]]> By: Joker http://www.theagitator.com/2004/04/15/well-nobodys-perfect/comment-page-1/#comment-43702 Joker Fri, 16 Apr 2004 13:05:16 +0000 http://dev.theagitator.com/?p=3956#comment-43702 Yeah Wade, both economies are propped up by tourism. Take that away, and you get Ethiopia - unfortunately. The only thing Cuba has going for it is that Castro will soon die of old age and perhaps a robust form of capitalism will take root. They have natural resources other than beach sand and tobacco, don't you know. Hopefully some bandito doesn't step up and promise power to the people, again but better this time. ;-) Yeah Wade, both economies are propped up by tourism. Take that away, and you get Ethiopia – unfortunately.
The only thing Cuba has going for it is that Castro will soon die of old age and perhaps a robust form of capitalism will take root. They have natural resources other than beach sand and tobacco, don’t you know.
Hopefully some bandito doesn’t step up and promise power to the people, again but better this time.
;-)

]]> By: wade http://www.theagitator.com/2004/04/15/well-nobodys-perfect/comment-page-1/#comment-43701 wade Fri, 16 Apr 2004 10:50:13 +0000 http://dev.theagitator.com/?p=3956#comment-43701 Anyone been to Jamaica lately? Only a stones throw from Cuba and unsullied by communism and castro, Jamaica is an equally beautiful and just as fucked up place as Cuba, once you get out of the resort compounds. Would you rather be born on the streets of Havanna or Trenchtown? looks like a tough call to me, i can't see that liberal democracy has produced much more for the average jamaican than communinism has for the average cuban, so maybe there are other factors at play here? Anyone been to Jamaica lately? Only a stones throw from Cuba and unsullied by communism and castro, Jamaica is an equally beautiful and just as fucked up place as Cuba, once you get out of the resort compounds.

Would you rather be born on the streets of Havanna or Trenchtown? looks like a tough call to me, i can’t see that liberal democracy has produced much more for the average jamaican than communinism has for the average cuban, so maybe there are other factors at play here?

]]> By: Rich Casebolt http://www.theagitator.com/2004/04/15/well-nobodys-perfect/comment-page-1/#comment-43700 Rich Casebolt Fri, 16 Apr 2004 01:22:12 +0000 http://dev.theagitator.com/?p=3956#comment-43700 When the toast has burned and all the milk has turned and Cap'n Crunch is waving farewell When the big one finds you may this song remind you that they don't serve breakfast in Hell <i>"Breakfast", Newsboys</i> And they don't have Preparation H there, either ... When the toast has burned
and all the milk has turned
and Cap’n Crunch is waving farewell
When the big one finds you
may this song remind you
that they don’t serve breakfast in Hell

“Breakfast”, Newsboys

And they don’t have Preparation H there, either …

]]> By: Jon H http://www.theagitator.com/2004/04/15/well-nobodys-perfect/comment-page-1/#comment-43699 Jon H Fri, 16 Apr 2004 00:04:45 +0000 http://dev.theagitator.com/?p=3956#comment-43699 "But hey, at least he'll have access to health care" Except in Hell, it consists of rum enemas topped off with a handrolled Cuban cigar. Lit. “But hey, at least he’ll have access to health care”

Except in Hell, it consists of rum enemas topped off with a handrolled Cuban cigar. Lit.

]]> By: corquando http://www.theagitator.com/2004/04/15/well-nobodys-perfect/comment-page-1/#comment-43698 corquando Thu, 15 Apr 2004 22:26:46 +0000 http://dev.theagitator.com/?p=3956#comment-43698 So how does an American travel to Cuba and get about the country unsupervised or un"toured"? So how does an American travel to Cuba and get about the country unsupervised or un”toured”?

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