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And it is, as my colleague from alabama mentioned, the cuban missile crisis wasnt even just that there were Nuclear Missiles in cuba pointed at the United States. Fidel castro was telling kruschev to fire them into the United States. If castro had his way there would have been Nuclear Weapons sent here. So this is the nature of the regime. So what are you doing with this policy . To me i look at it very simply. I think this fact is true. Every single dollar spent in cuba benefits the castro regime. Every single dollar. If it were otherwise, europe doesnt have restrictions most of the other world doesnt have restrictions. Have the cuban people benefited from that . Has their standard of living gone up . No this all goes to benefit the government. And to me this is t ....
What controls the cuba policy about cuba are the actions of the castro dictatorship. It is not cubanamericans, who send a large Police Contingent to venezuela to beat up dissidents and to train the Venezuelan Police forces. It is not the cubans who would like to go back to the cold war. The president wants to forget about the cold war. Raul castro wants to go back to the cold war. They have been closed back in cuba. Raul cast crow has in e castro has in cubas national bank, look up in the newspaper. There has been a lot of fraud with medicare and medicaid. And, at least in one case, and there are many others 300 million were stolen from medicaid and medicare. The money is now in cubas national bank. Is that is that a savings account . Shouldnt the administration say to mr. Castro. Give us the money before we talk about anything else . It is your money, the taxpayers mon ....
Said because theres absolutely no opportunity here. And i thought everybody who is young with any sort of drive or initiative, if their dream is to get out of this country this is never going to change. And i thought, well, what are we doing to help remedy this . And thats when i realized the answer was absolutely nothing. Our policy is only aggravating the situation. Instead of being able to bring the International Community together to help reserve pressure toward the castro regime weve isolated ourselves toward the International Community. Theyve run the other way because they dont want to be seen as maligned with this overreaching policy. Its done nothing to help Civil Society on the island, tomorrow power to empower them in any way. Its given us no leverage with the cubans to push for changes. They ....