The Hopes, Dreams, And Reality Of Youth In Cuba Analysis
I watched an amazing video documentary the other day about the hopes, dreams, and reality of youth and young adults in Cuba. It was an eye-opening presentation of a generation that longs for the very freedoms we are allowing to slip away. As I watched, I could not help but compare their passion for freedom in a rigid political system, to our alarming trend towards allowing, or even worse encouraging a more socialist posture.
In Cuba, "jobs" are government jobs, the pay is not enough to live on, and the rations the government supplies each month, last for only 2 weeks. Young married couples must often live with relatives due to a shortage of housing, and for them, simple privacy is a rare luxury. Promising students study hard to earn advanced …show more content…
This beautiful tropical paradise filled with a resilient and hopeful people, became a culture where a handful have much and the masses have little to nothing, where infrastructure has crumbled, opportunity is non-existent, and young people dream of living somewhere, anywhere else. Their revolution was a forcible takeover, ours is a willing, and ignorant, relinquishment of our freedom. The results have alarming similarities. There is much we can learn from the grandchildren of the Cuban revolution.
I urge you to view this documentary and others like it. I urge you to educate yourself about how people in other countries really live and what they must do to survive. Many wise men and women have said that history repeats itself, and so I urge you to consider the true value of freedom lost, and prayerfully consider the actions of our current leadership and the candidates who compete to become our future leaders.
It is not too late to reclaim this land and transform it so that God will again bless America. We need to begin by electing leaders that serve God and are trustworthy stewards of what He and the public have entrusted them with. We are precariously balanced upon a dangerous precipice, and this country is in great need of change. We must be wary of the change that seeks to control us, and fight for the change that will empower us with opportunity to achieve our
In Cuba, "jobs" are government jobs, the pay is not enough to live on, and the rations the government supplies each month, last for only 2 weeks. Young married couples must often live with relatives due to a shortage of housing, and for them, simple privacy is a rare luxury. Promising students study hard to earn advanced …show more content…
This beautiful tropical paradise filled with a resilient and hopeful people, became a culture where a handful have much and the masses have little to nothing, where infrastructure has crumbled, opportunity is non-existent, and young people dream of living somewhere, anywhere else. Their revolution was a forcible takeover, ours is a willing, and ignorant, relinquishment of our freedom. The results have alarming similarities. There is much we can learn from the grandchildren of the Cuban revolution.
I urge you to view this documentary and others like it. I urge you to educate yourself about how people in other countries really live and what they must do to survive. Many wise men and women have said that history repeats itself, and so I urge you to consider the true value of freedom lost, and prayerfully consider the actions of our current leadership and the candidates who compete to become our future leaders.
It is not too late to reclaim this land and transform it so that God will again bless America. We need to begin by electing leaders that serve God and are trustworthy stewards of what He and the public have entrusted them with. We are precariously balanced upon a dangerous precipice, and this country is in great need of change. We must be wary of the change that seeks to control us, and fight for the change that will empower us with opportunity to achieve our