Posted on 09/27/2009 4:18:03 PM PDT by Nachum
HAVANA — President Raul Castro is taking a bold gamble to ease communist Cuba's cash crunch by eliminating a costly government lunch program that feeds almost a third of the nation's population every workday.
The Americas' only one-party communist government, held afloat largely by support from its key ally Venezuela, is desperate to improve its budget outlook; the global economy is slack, and Havana is very hard pressed to secure international financing.
Raul Castro, 76, officially took over as Cuba's president in February 2008 after his brother, revolutionary icon Fidel Castro, stepped aside with health problems.
Though some wondered if Raul Castro would try to move Cuba's centralized economy toward more market elements, so far he has sought to boost efficiency and cut corruption and waste without reshaping the economic system.
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“...so far he has sought to boost efficiency and cut corruption and waste without reshaping the economic system.”
And I’ll wager it’s failing miserably. You can’t Central Plan your way to prosperity.
Raul better watch out! Fat Mikey isn’t going to like this and will probably end up doing one of his “documentary” specials trashing Raul.
Yet the Left in America have not.
**Let them eat sugarcane**
Well, that’s OK. They don’t have any toilet paper anyway.
Fidel doesn’t get it. How can you save money by eliminating a “free lunch?” It’s free, right?
Cuba produces less than a third of the sugar that they produced before it became a “worker’s paradise”.
Cutting meals without allowing the people some means to actually EARN more money will just mean that those people go hungry.
I think the heroic Cuban people, under the influence of corrupting capitalist and sinister Zionist forces....were getting chubby.
So, not eating is a good thing. Something that even the Americans don’t have.
/cuba commie think out
Yeah, but they have way lower rates of diabetes now.
/s
Comrade, it is simply because the rich have not been taxed enough.
If the Cubans would simply tax their rich at 99.9% tax rates then there would be a glorious peoples lunch for all.
Only American leftist understand prosperity through excessive taxation.
miserable failure
Visitors report seeing cattle pulling plows tied to their horns. They are going to the time before the yoke was invented.
Hey, c'mon! Huey's doing his best.
When the looters have taxed the rich out of existence, all that's left is looters......who wind up feeding off of each other.
Check out ATLAS SHRUGGED by Ayn Rand.
The Cuban people are so skinny as it is, if you cut one daily meal, they may disappear altogether.
Running out of ‘other people’s money’ are you RAUL?
free lunch = piece of stale bread with processed cheese. There is — and has been for decades — a food shortage in that country that is diccult to imagine without seeing it.
Actually, they have a very, very, very high rate of diabetes — they live on carbohydrates, since they have almost no vegetables. A typical Cuban meal, when things are “good” is four kinds of starch cooked in lard and some beans. LEttuce, and other green vegertables are practically unknown. There is never enogh food, so they overeat carbs to allay the anxiety of going hungry.
Bah! Eating is way overrated....
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