Toward a 21st-Century Regulatory System

...End the Cuban Embargo!

Mr. President,

As  a staunch 'FDR Liberal' I applaud your focus on the needed reform of out of date governmental regulations that no longer serve a useful purpose, but linger on in the thicket of our bureaucracy often clogging the arteries of commerce. But sir, please don't assume that any changes which need to be made lie only in obscure and forgotten laws and regulations. Some of our failed policies are so large and entrenched that we literally can't fathom them from within their shadows. 

The first and most obvious case I can think of as a useless and costly regulation is the US embargo against Cuba. While this was obviously a necessity during the height of the Cold War (given the Cuba USSR relationship) it is now a cruel and useless albatross and a stain on the reputation of the USA as a freedom and peace loving nation.

Anyone who gives this issue a second look will undoubtedly agree that normalization of relations with Cuba is long overdue and should have come hand in hand with our opening of relations with Russia and China.

Far beyond the inevitable boost to both nations economies opening up our relations with Cuba would send a most positive signal of peace and progress to a world so very hungry for both.

I beseech you President Obama, please give the leadership at the State Department and in Congress their marching orders and let them know that we need to end the Cuban Embargo!