south Florida's economy is SUNK at the moment. Tourism is terrible for the 2nd year in a row, and construction died 18 months ago. We have 12% unemployment in Lee county, not even counting the 5% of part-timers or ppl who have just plain given up.
So with a real unemployment rate of 17%... any commerce we can get with Cuba is good. Plus it'll let us get some eyes in there. If Russia and Venezuela are putting ships and eventually troops in Cuba, we certainly need eyes and men in the area, right?
Trade will normalize relationships and prevent a crisis in our backyward. And it'll put some $ into our economy. Lots of cuban cigars are good $$$. Vice goes up in tough times, and cigars will sell. This will cause a wage of vice - health care - to increase as well.
or, we could just bitch about what Castro did 50 years ago to piss us off. Sure, that makes sense.