Posted on 04/19/2011 6:21:34 AM PDT by HorowitzianConservative
Breaking news out of Cuba on Tuesday as former Cuban President Fidel Castro resigned from his post as first secretary in the Central Committee of the Communist Party. The move was made after a series of reforms had been passed by the Communist Party Congress that introduced minor free market reforms to the island nation's economy. Among the reforms passed were term limits for "elected" officials and state job cuts.
From Google News:
Fidel Castro confirmed his exit from the Communist Party leadership on Tuesday, ceding power to his brother Raul as delegates prepare to vote on changes that could bring term limits to key posts.In a move that has shocked party loyalists inside Cuba, rumors run rampant that Castro has sent people to Iowa to test the waters for a Fidel in 2012 presidential run. I talked to a senior Castro adviser, James Carville, who expressed hope that Castro could challenge President Obama in next year's election.The move came after the sixth Communist Party Congress approved a flurry of measures on Monday aimed at keeping Cuba's centrally planned economy from collapse but without any broad embrace of market-oriented change.
...Reforms include the eventual trimming of a million state jobs and the decentralization of the agricultural sector.
Obama is weak and has moved too far to the left. He is destroying the Democratic Party that was once led by the great Jimmy Carter. He's hiring too many people and expanding government too much. We believe we can, at the very least, pull Mr. Obama to the right a little bit.Let's talk about term limits in this campaign. Let's talk about cutting state workers off the payrolls. How about eliminating farm subsidies?
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Where’s the sarcasm tag?
The media probably wouldn’t ask for Fidel’s birth certificate either.
Democrats will never vote for him. He’s considered too Conservative…
Cuba undoubtedly being one of the 57 states.
Fidel was born in Hawaii.
1. Foreign born? - Yes
2. Able to take a fully functioning and beautiful country and turn it into a piece of crap? Yes
3. Completely ruin the macro and micro economics of said country? Yes
4. Socialist? Yes
5. Communist? Yes
6. Managed his country heavily into debt? Yes
7. Had zero managerial or administrative experience to hold the office he is now in? Yes
8. Makes whatever decisions needing to be made behind closed doors in secret? Yes
9. Is arrogant, self centered, narcisistic, and vane? Yes
10. Is an islamic muslim? No
OK....9 out of 10 isn't bad at all.
I see no problem with Candidate Castro representing the dem/lib/prog/pops and running against the stain for President of the US
Why bother?
We have lost all the Generals in the battle against Marxism.
General Electric. General Motors and General Mills will soon be a goner.
The only enterprise that the MSM cares about is General Hospital.
Someone did, yesterday. A FREEPER. It was a big 'joke' yesterday.
Castro is too far to the right for the Democratic Party.
State Job Cuts?
We need some of that here.
Of course, I’m sure Cuba has much more generous unemployment compensation than we do. //sarcasm
Let’s see. Who do I vote for?
nobama? - castro? - huckaby? - newt? - one of the 2 hair boys?
I guess I will stay home.
ICK.
Hey...if Trump can make an overnight conversion...why not?
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