This is awesome.
My congressman, Jeff Flake, was recently interviewed by Chandler Councilman, Jeff Weninger on the Chandler’s cable show Chandler in Focus. The interview was the regular superfluous listing of accomplishments and updates but then it gets very interesting.
During the last three minutes of the interview, Congressman Flake reveals that he recently spent seven
days on a 50-acre deserted island in the south central Pacific. During his island getaway, he took a pole spear, a water desalinization pump, and some salt and pepper and his snorkling gear. For seven days he remained completely alone on an island in the middle of the Pacific. He ate lots of fish and even swam with the sharks.
Flake made no mention of bringing a volleyball along on his getaway.
I would suggest a better island for Flake: Cuba. There at least he’d be close to his buddies, Fidel and Raul.
I happen to agree with Congressman Flake on Cuba and I disagree with “Hagar” on the assertion that Jeff Flake is a “buddy” of Fidel and Raul.
If the United States were to flood the market/economy of Cuba with American goods and services and ultimately, American values (at least not those American “values” being pushed by the Obama Administration) then the people of Cuba would realize how much they have been missing since the Castro’s became dictators. I venture to say it would be a short period of time before the regime would crumble under the influence of a free market. Freedom has some remarkable effects.
I am a huge fan of Flake. I have always wanted to take a trip like that and am jealous of his experience. Jeff Flake is not only a great congressman but he is an amazing person. He is right on Cuba.
Next time the Flake has an urge to promote amnesty for illegal aliens or his admiration for the Castros, I suggest he go away (far, far, away). Perhaps to his island.
DSW, Sure, we have dozens of examples to show that Flake’s plan works.
Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez, Bolivia’s Evo Morales and Ecuador’s Rafael Correa have sacked their supreme courts, dissolved their legislatures and summoned constituent assemblies to “refound” their republics on socialist principles.
With the exception of Colombia, every country in the region is now in the hands of the authoritarian Left. They are protectionists, rejecting Washington’s plan for a pan-American free trade area. They are nationalists, whose main political and economic policy is picking fights with the United States.
When I see how all those regimes have crumbled, I am convinced — I don’t think so. It is nice to look through rose colored glasses, but you should at least know that you are looking through rose colored glasses.
This worked so well in China, also. They have not become more democratic, but we have become more socialistic. Who is influencing whom?
It has not worked in China? Hmm…you must of ignored the last 20 years.
Locke
I have been watching. Based on your statement, it appears that you have not been evaluating how the change in Sino-American relations has affected the two economies.
It has been good for their ability to take America’s place in economic power, however, with their trade restrictions, it has not helped the American worker but instead they have been the major component of our high paid manufacturing and other industrial jobs being lost.
If you want further damage to our economy with a socialist dominated dictatorship dumping their products from only 90 miles offshore, do for Cuba what we have done for China. I do not want to further the economic power of socialist regimes in our hemisphere.
DSW, This might be your funniest post yet— I am lovin’ Wilson there…
And Jeff has never met an illegal he wouldn’t defend or hire!
We do not need health care reform. We do not need to change our system. Fiscal and personal responsibility.. . Flake needs to be replaced in 2010.