Posted on 09/13/2010 11:10:18 AM PDT by OldDeckHand
Havana, Cuba (CNN) -- Cuban announced on Monday it would lay off "at least" half a million state workers over the next six months and simultaneously allow more jobs to be created in the private sector as the socialist economy struggles to get back on its feet.
The plan announced in state media confirms that President Raul Castro is following through on his pledge to shed some one million state jobs, a full fifth of the official workforce -- but in a shorter timeframe than initially anticipated.
"Our state cannot and should not continue maintaining companies, productive entities and services with inflated payrolls and losses that damage our economy and result counterproductive, create bad habits and distort workers' conduct," the CTC, Cuba's official labor union, said in newspapers.
Castro had announced layoffs in August, but said they would occur over the next five years.
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Communism works/sarc
If only we had elected Castro as President rather than Barry the U.S. might be in better shape.
Somebody tell the Kenyan.
Paging Comrade Obama!
Gear up, Florida, here come the rafts.
Will the president please pick up the white phone for a message from Castro.
Which way?
Maybe Zer0 could transfer some wealth to Cuba to help out his Commie buddies now that Russia isn’t there to provide heavy support.
Only one flaw in the logic...where is the private sector in Cuba? Does it have the capacity to create 500,000 jobs?
This lesson only took Castro 50 years to learn. Do you suppose BO ever will?
...and they all look like ‘57 Chevys.......
RECENTLY Castro admitted that COMMUNISM does NOT work.
As Obama rushes towards COMMUNISM, the serfs CHEER HIM ON!
Sean Penn and Danny Glover should start protesting any minute now...
Obama say, “No, No Fidel! You can’t be serious. This is bad press for socialism!”
This is going to be worse than the Mariel thing. That time, they just sent common criminals. This time, they’re sending bureaucrats.
Not now, but someday. We are watching the collapsing of the Castro regime, only very much UNLIKE his predecessor some 60-years ago, this coup is happening in slow-motion.
I suspect in another 10-years, Cuba will look much more like Venezuela did 10-years ago, and Venezuela will look much more like Cuba did 10-years ago.
“Gear up, Florida, here come the rafts.”
Hell no!
They may LEAVE the U.S.!
Fidel Castro: Cuba’s Communism Not Working
Published September 09, 2010
| Associated Press
HAVANA — Cuba’s communist economic model has come in for criticism from an unlikely source: Fidel Castro.
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Jeffrey Goldberg, a national correspondent for The Atlantic magazine, asked Castro if Cuba’s economic system was still worth exporting to other countries, and Castro replied: “The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore,” Goldberg wrote Wednesday in a post on his Atlantic blog.
The Cuban government had no immediate comment on Goldberg’s account.
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As president, Raul Castro has instituted a series of limited economic reforms, and has warned Cubans that they need to start working harder and expecting less from the government. But the president has also made it clear he has no desire to depart from Cuba’s socialist system or embrace capitalism.
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http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/09/09/castro-admits-cubas-communism-doesnt-work/
Heck, we might want to move to Cuba for OPPORTUNITY being denied to U.S. by our Communist leader, Obama!
Things change ... update yourself.
Sean Penn and Danny Glover will blame FOX news or Conservative talk radio for brainwashing Fidel the Traitor.
Michael Moore, our country is waiting for your apology.
Makr it now you POS.
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