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Will Barack Obama End the Cuba Embargo?

Cigars and rum?  That's change I can believe in.  Know what's hilarious?  The law making it illegal for me to purchase Cuban rum and cigars is called the Trading With The Enemy [sic] Act.  Because Cuba is our enemy?  Can you believe the stupidity?  Ordering Cuban cigars is pretty easy, due to the Internet.  Yet I don't do this, since I have had friends receive threatening letters from some government agency. Yes, that's right.  There are people paid to ensure that American citizens do not obtain Cuban cigars.  Because the government shouldn't have something better to do?  As someone smartly said in another context: "Good thing we're not in an economic crisis where we can't afford for the government to waste a single dollar."The Trading With The Enemy [sic] Act embodies all that is wrong with America: We waste money enforcing laws that shouldn't even exist...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on November 10, 2008 (boomark / email).