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Jobless in Cuba? Communism Faces the Unthinkable
AP via Google News ^
| July 18, 2010
| By ANNE-MARIE GARCIA
Posted on 07/18/2010 5:29:35 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
“Without people feeling the need to work to make a living, sheltered by state regulations that are excessively paternalistic and irrational, we will never stimulate a love for work,” he said.
Can we make Raoul an honorary member of the Tea Party?
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posted on
07/18/2010 5:30:52 AM PDT
by
silverleaf
(Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.)
To: silverleaf
Hey Raul what happened to “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs”.
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posted on
07/18/2010 5:34:10 AM PDT
by
C19fan
To: Oldeconomybuyer
>> At a state project to refurbish a decaying building in Old Havana, one worker paints a wall white while two others watch. A fourth sleeps in a wheelbarrow positioned in a sliver of shade nearby and two more smoke and chat on the curb.
This is Obama’s vision for America, except that it would read “one white worker paints a wall, while 4 brown workers watch or sleep”.
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posted on
07/18/2010 5:35:26 AM PDT
by
Bryanw92
(Obama is like a rocket scientist....who's trying to do brain surgery with a hammer.)
To: silverleaf
Even a complete idiot can see that this is the end of the road resulting from Socialism/Communism. They all eventually end up here. Corruption was not mentioned, but you can bet that it also plays a bigger role than they care to admit.
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posted on
07/18/2010 5:36:09 AM PDT
by
PSYCHO-FREEP
( Give me Liberty, or give me an M-24A2!)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
“President Raul Castro has startled the nation lately by saying about one in five Cuban workers may be redundant”
If he was loading a gun when he said it, they will soon achieve full employment...
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posted on
07/18/2010 5:38:21 AM PDT
by
GenXteacher
(He that hath no stomach for this fight, let him depart!)
To: C19fan
they only focus on the second part: “to each according to his needs”
kind of like how liberals only recognize half of the establishment clause
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posted on
07/18/2010 5:41:34 AM PDT
by
silverleaf
(Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.)
To: PSYCHO-FREEP
There are millions of complete idiots voting for Democrats. How long you think til they can drain every bit of money from the USA and achieve Utopia Cuban style?
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Cubans like to joke that "the state pretends to pay us and we pretend to work." Odd how communism produces the same perverse incentives every time... and odder still that liberals never see that pattern.
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posted on
07/18/2010 5:41:55 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
(Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous - Einstein.)
To: GenXteacher
Or allow another mass exodus.
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posted on
07/18/2010 5:41:55 AM PDT
by
C19fan
To: Oldeconomybuyer
one in five Cuban workers may be redundantThat's a 20% unemployment rate.
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posted on
07/18/2010 5:43:07 AM PDT
by
reg45
To: GOPJ
/src on/Hey dude. Real communism has not been attempted yet./src off/
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posted on
07/18/2010 5:43:09 AM PDT
by
C19fan
To: silverleaf
All that shows is that the typical 0bamunist is even more leftist than Raoul Castro.
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posted on
07/18/2010 5:46:05 AM PDT
by
reg45
To: C19fan
Yeah - they’re still looking for the “right” place to try it - it’s failed in all human trials...
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posted on
07/18/2010 5:48:23 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
(Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous - Einstein.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
At a state project to refurbish a decaying building in Old Havana, one worker paints a wall white while two others watch. A fourth sleeps in a wheelbarrow positioned in a sliver of shade nearby and two more smoke and chat on the curbThat sounds like a description of Streets and Sanitation workers in Chicago.
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posted on
07/18/2010 5:49:40 AM PDT
by
reg45
To: Oldeconomybuyer
So he’s just going to hand them a check instead of having an implicit demand for work built into their wages?
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posted on
07/18/2010 5:52:32 AM PDT
by
Brett66
(Where government advances, and it advances relentlessly , freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
"Without people feeling the need to work to make a living, sheltered by state regulations that are excessively paternalistic and irrational, we will never stimulate a love for work," he said. And it only took three generations of ruined lives, not counting a mountain of corpses, to find it out!
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posted on
07/18/2010 5:56:11 AM PDT
by
Mr Ramsbotham
("O nation miserable . . . when shalt thou see thy wholesome days again . . . .?")
To: Oldeconomybuyer
"Without people feeling the need to work to make a living, sheltered by state regulations that are excessively paternalistic and irrational, we will never stimulate a love for work," he said" How would an American liberal/socialist respond to that statement? (rhetorical)
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posted on
07/18/2010 6:00:10 AM PDT
by
newfreep
(Palin/DeMint 2012 - Bolton: Secy of State)
To: Bryanw92
one white worker paints a wall, while 4 brown workers watch or sleep.
Excellent! I spit my coffee out when I read that line. LOL!
But true. Why am I laughing?
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Yep.
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posted on
07/18/2010 6:11:44 AM PDT
by
Pan_Yan
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