Posted on 12/21/2013 7:39:05 PM PST by Olog-hai
President Raul Castro issued a stern warning to entrepreneurs pushing the boundaries of Cuba’s economic reform, telling parliament on Saturday that “those pressuring us to move faster are moving us toward failure.”
Castro has legalized small-scale, private businesses in nearly 200 fields since 2010, but has issued tighter regulations on businesses seen as going too far or competing excessively with state enterprises. In recent months, the government has banned the resale of imported hardware and clothing and cracked down on unlicensed private video game and movie salons. …
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bttt
Can’t let capitalism go unfettered ya know. Wouldn’t be Christian.
Do real Marxist economies need any money at all?
At first I thought this was satire.
I guess Raul hasn’t figured out how to skim off the profits. Stupid commie.
Limited business, tight regulations, stern warnings? Are you sure Reid and Pelosi aren’t running Cuba?
You’d think that idiot would at least look at China as an example.
President You Didn’t Build That turns green with envy.
These private ventures were offering better products and prices than the state ventures, they had to be stopped of course, that is how these people think.
and I’m not kidding
Sounds like somewhere else I know....
Unfortunately it sounds like far too many places these days
“those pressuring us to move faster are moving us toward failure.”
Failure?
How could Cuba fail more completely than it already has?
By the way, has anyone heard from Fidel lately?
Not complaining mind you, since my bottle of fine wine reserved for the celebration of his demise is aging gracefully and improving with time (unlike Cuba) , but I have seen more activity from Lenin’s embalmed corpse lately than I have from Fidel and I really would hate to have missed the occasion.
The two octogenarian psychopaths that have enslaved Cuba for 55 years are living proof that the good die young.
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