Does anyone find it ironic that a country that does not allow freedom of speech "grants' Cubans the right to own a cell phone?? Or is it just me?? Its probably just me.
It is telling about Americans when the most you hear out of us is the materialistic argument that Cubans cannot afford cell-phones so the "right" is meaningless. The cell-phones are meaningless without the freedom to say what one wants on them. Is it any surprise that we have forgotten that in this country given the arguments about the Patriot Act and the like??
We have forgotten that the root of our freedoms and our Constitution is not "Capitalism" but political liberty, not greed but virtue. Capitalism, some form of it, is often a consequence of political liberty, not the vice-versa.
I believe some of our economic problems are also caused by this moral and ethical lapse into economic hedonism.
John.
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