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Originally Posted by njbmwx3
My Parents lost every credential they ever had when they came to the US. They came here for political asylam. My mom was a doctor in Cuba and my dad owned a chain of retail stores. All was lost when they decided, for the good of their children, it was time to leave a country that no longer was interested in their own. No one who has ever come from Cuba, came here wealthy!
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I understand that. I was not suggesting that they were allowed to bring their wealth with them. I said
most (not all) of those who came here were those who were wealthy in Cuba.
If your family had stayed in Cuba, your dad's chain of stores would have been taken from him and run by the government. He would have received some sort of compensation for them -- probably not their true value. And most likely he would have been retained to continue managing the chain if he was good at his job, and he would receive a paycheck from the government each week.
Your mom, being a doctor, would have been able to keep practicing medicine, but would not be able to work in a private practice. Instead, she would receive her paycheck from the government just like cops, teachers, firemen, and the mailman. She would earn more money than most professions, but not 10-20 times as much as the average person as is typical for American doctors. But then again, Cuban doctors do not have to pay for Medical school or malpractice insurance.
Communism is terrible for those who have money, those who own large amounts of land, and those who own successful businesses. It is also bad for those who are professionals (doctors, lawyers, etc.) -- these people can earn much more money in a capitalist economy.
However, communism is good for poor and uneducated people as they are all guaranteed to be given a job, health care, free education including secondary education (college, grad school), a place to live, etc. As a result of this, you'll notice much lower crime rates in communist countries.
Communism levels the playing field. If you are better off than most, you probably are not thrilled with the idea of a level playing field. If you are poor and illiterate, as most Cubans were in 1959, then you would be thrilled with Communism.
Except for a few terrorists and war criminals who were part of the Bautista regime, those who came to Florida for "political assylum" did not come because of any political persecution, but because of economics. And they were mostly upper class professionals and business owners who did not want to live under socialism.
They were smart and educated, and they were able to organize themselves into a very influential lobby. Them, together with the large corporations who had their tabacco and sugar fields confiscated, and organized crime (which had their casinos and prostitution rings in Havana closed) were able to pressure the government into these rediculous anti-Cuba policies that still exist today.