Cuba's Future

After Castro, do you know what Cuba will be super ready for?
To become a state of the United States.
Yes, a fully free and united state of the United States.

These are my father's ideas. He lived most of his life in preCastro Cuba, and he loved Cuba and he knew it really well, like the back of his hand. He was a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Havana, and his hobbies were philosophy, psychology and good government. All his siblings and both of his parents were teachers, and he knew a lot about motivation.

We are prisoners of ourselves. We have a curse, the Latin people. Look at Spain, Portugal, South and Central America: dictators, dictators. We are a people who love freedom, but don't know how to keep it. This is due to our cultural inheritance from Spain. Statehood would guarantee stable government and freedom for Cuba.

We Cubans have spent generations fighting very strongly for freedom, have achieved it several times overthrowing Spain and then overthrowing Cuban dictators, at a great price in human effort and human suffering, but each time when we had it, we lost it, we didn't know how to keep it! We just didn't know how to keep it.

We Cuban-Americans who grew up in preCastro Cuba, believe in freedom, work well in a freedom setting, and have achieved high leadership positions in the free setting of the United States, because of our high motivation. Cubans can assume the responsibility that comes with state representation--their high motivation enables them to do so.

What is Cuba's potential? We can see what it is if we look at PreCastro Cuba. PreCastro Cuba was a high powered nation. PreCastro Cuba enjoyed a lot of progress and a lot of individual freedom. We had the second highest standard of living in Latin America, second only to Argentina, which is a large nation with a lot of resources. True, we had political problems, but economically we were doing really well.

How did we achieve this high standard of living? Cuba was selling sugar and other products to the United States, and Cuba was buying heavy equipment (industrial machines, cars, appliances) from the United States. But what was the balance of trade? In the balance of trade, Cuba sent many thousands of dollars to the United States every year. That is, the amount of money that the United States paid to Cuba for its products every year was lower than the amount that Cuba paid to the United States for its products. That is, we were sending money to the United States every year, and we were producing that surplus. We were producing the surplus profit from earnings in tourism and other industries. And we were doing this without getting any foreign aid or loans from the United States or from anywhere. PreCastro Cuba stood on its own two feet economically quite outstandingly!

Have you noticed that Puerto Ricans who live in the mainland United States are considered like second-class citizens? Do you know why? The reason is that they are not as highly motivated by freedom as Cubans are, and they are not willing to accept the responsibilities that come with it. This is why Puerto Ricans have continued to vote statehood down in Puerto Rico.

In contrast, Cuban-Americans who were born in preCastro Cuba are highly respected by Americans in the United States for their achievements in industry and US government. There are several CubanAmerican congressmen to the US Congress. There are others in other leadership positions.

However, look how Cuban independence ended: it ended under the control of a foreign power (the Soviet Union). We must understand how the North Americans rescued us. They made an agreement or pact with the Soviet Union so that they would leave Cuba. This is very important for Cuba in order to accomplish freedom in the future. Now the Soviet Union does not hold power in Cuba. It is true, unfortunately, that in exchange for this agreement or pact the North Americans agreed not to attack Cuba, but the important effect has been that they got rid of a terrible foreign power. The most important fact for Cuba to become free in the future has been getting rid of the Soviet Union. And that is why the problem now is only among the Cubans. This is a more benign problem that can be solved.

Yes, Cuba should be a state of the United states with all its rights and responsibilities. And statehood would guarantee stable government and freedom for Cuba.

Being part of the US will give Cuba access to the tax base and trade advantages on a worldwide basis with very little investment other than paying into the income tax base of the federal government. Cuba would not simply be a trading partner with the US. Cuban statehood would provide all Cubans with the same trade advantages enjoyed by all American businesses on the mainland. Cuban statehood will also provide Cubans with a strong military to defend its borders and conceivably provide the US with a geographical advantage in both the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea.

Many Cubans who have escaped from Fidel Castro's tyranny will be able to return to Cuba and will provide a helping hand in restoring free enterprise to the nation state.

It is high time that we say what needs to be said. And tell your friends so that they start getting mentally prepared. Because this decision will have to be made among all Cubans.

by Lillian Simmons


Why is it that in the United States individual freedom is maintained generation after generation? Find out why. The course The Miracle of North America traces a guideline for a perfect government:
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