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Hard to believe

even though no law prohibits state officials from accepting gifts or trips from businesses, lobbyists or foreign governments.

"We asked Johnson, who said the state Agriculture Department’s marketing budget is paying for the Cuba trip.”

What a joke!! I’m sure that Cuba has a lot of agriculture products that will grow in North Dakota, NOT.  It seems that the leftist liberals in North Dakota are also Castro suck-ups.

[...] North Dakota Democrats Making Trip To Cuba By Rob on October 31, 2005 at 12:19 pm [...]

docdave this is about selling ND agri products to Castro.

However that is supposed to work when there is supposed to be an economic (and travel) embargo.

docdave this is about selling ND agri products to Castro.

N. Dakota could get rich with a Cohiba Franchise.

Why do the good people of North Dakota want to do business with a sanctioned dictator?  This sounds alarmingly similar to the Iraqi ‘oil for food’ fiasco.

I find it interesting as it seems to me that Roger Johnson is being groomed to run for perhaps Dorgan’s seat in 2010. 

Why would he want to associate himself with the last of the Communists?

If anything trade (after the embargo opens up)with Cuba is going to have to be pretty much barter.  Cuba exports Cigars (I don’t use them, but ok; and cane sugar.)

I would think there were better countries to spend our hard earned tax money on.

I agree with Whistler that Cuba doesn’t have much to exchange for North Dakota products.  I doubt that they have much hard cash so barter is probably going to be necessary.  My memory tells me that besides cigars, the most significant Cuban export was communist revolutions that they sent to various parts of the Caribbean and Africa. Don’t think there is a place for that in North Dakota.

The idea is to be in Cuba so when it opens up the mechanisms for trade are in place.
Castro and the embargo can’t live forever, so unless we invade we have to compete in the world market. 10 million Cubans eat a lot of chicken and rice. To large and close a market to ignore.

YOu may be right, Woof, but as far as North Dakotans are concerned there are better opportunities on which to spend our time.  Antigua being one of them.

The war against illegal plunder has been fought since the beginning of the world. But how is… legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. Then abolish this law without delay … If such a law is not abolished immediately it will spread, multiply and develop into a system.

Frédéric Bastiat, The Law

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I would think there were better countries to spend our hard earned tax money on.

Like, say, the new Democratic government in Antigua?

The war against illegal plunder has been fought since the beginning of the world. But how is… legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime. Then abolish this law without delay … If such a law is not abolished immediately it will spread, multiply and develop into a system.

Frédéric Bastiat, The Law

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Antigua and Barbuda
Population:

68,722 (July 2005 est.)