Posted on 09/17/2010 12:16:15 AM PDT by DGHoodini
Communism in Cuba is dead.
A lot of people missed it but the Castros this week announced they have thrown in the towel on their failed economic system and are suddenly going to turn on a dime and give private enterprise a shot.
The first clue came in August when President Raul Castro said in a speech "Cuba will no longer be known as the only country in the world where you do not have to work to live."
And now word comes out of Havana of sweeping new changes to the country's economy - starting with the elimination of 500,000 civil service jobs and the introduction of income tax.
"Our state cannot and should not continue maintaining enterprises with inflated payrolls, losses that pull down our economy and make us counterproductive, generate bad habits and distort worker behaviour," said a statement by the Cuban Workers' Central (CTC).
In reaction Havana-based Reuters scribes Marc Frank and Jeff Franks wrote, "the jobs plan was the most significant step so far in a series of reforms by President Raul Castro and the biggest shift toward private enterprise since the 1960s."
(Excerpt) Read more at torontosun.com ...
Well, to be fair, Castro did take it back...of course the lay offs will still take place and the truth is obvious. Maybe they’re realizing that 60 yr old cars just won’t cut it for much longer.
He may have taken it back, but to quote the opinion of the Cuban people cited in the article...”He got it right the first time”
And if you don’t lisdten to his words but pay attention to the actions of the Castro Bros...You know he meant what he said the first time, and the Cuban people know..there’s something unstable within the upper ranks of the Party
I didn't make the statement you appear to be attributing to me.
I was merely quoting from the article — Raul Castro’s words in August, apparently
And if you don’t lisdten to his words but pay attention to the actions of the Castro Bros...You know he meant what he said the first time, and the Cuban people know..there’s something unstable within the upper ranks of the Party
Exactly, which is why I stated that they're still going forward with the layoffs. It may have been a weak moment, or one caught off guard, but Castro was correct the first time...their system doesn't work...well, unless you like getting paid $20 per month and living in abject poverty. which is probably why the democrats love Castro so much...and why under Obama poverty has increased so drastically...Obama is trying to make us into Cuba.
I say we exile Micheal Moore to Cuba. There he can watch as his “paradise” transforms into a jewel of capitalism. as the repressed entrepreneurial spirit of the Cuban people is released to prosper. He will be overwhelmed in sorrow, and be treated with the contempt he deserves by the Cubans who deal with him.
Hey, we’ve got a truck load of enthusiastic marxists, we could send Fidel some fresh blood so to speak.
Someone should go interview Michael Moore.
They should be sure and practice gloating before they do.
I have no doubt that the scumbag communist Ubama has no interest in learning anything from communism’s latest failure. Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
Castro rejects the system that we are rushing toward.
Heck, let’s give ‘em Obama too, now that he has so much experience saving countries from economic collapse.
Hey! castro only had Communism for fifty years! What does *he* know? He just didn’t do it right....
>Bo)
Cuba doesn’t produce enough food to sustain Michael Moore.
Even better....
Let's not stink up the place. In a few years the US will have an embargo against Cuba because they are TOO FREE!!!
The times, they are a-changin'.
Lyndon Johnson saw to that a long time ago.
According to Rep. Hank Johnson that would Cuba to capsize! Be careful what you wish for. :-)
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