[Bean Counter]

Cuba's only role in today's Modern Market Economy...





Has anyone attempted to calculate the potential damage that "Cash for Clunkers" did to Comrade Fidel's used Auto parts Black Market...??


Instead of destroying those clunkers we should be shipping them to Cuba and getting rid of all the '52 Fords that are still smoking up the Glorious People's Capital of Havana...

[Cindy]

Note: The following post is a quote:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2326360/posts

Cuban retirees resell news as toilet paper
UPI ^ | 27/8 | Staff
Posted on August 28, 2009 12:13:16 AM PDT by chuck_the_tv_out

Edited on August 28, 2009 12:14:33 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
HAVANA, Aug. 27 (UPI) — A Cuban retiree says the country’s toilet paper shortage has created a lucrative business for seniors — buying and reselling newspapers as an alternative.

The Havana retiree said he and other seniors line up before dawn to buy surplus newspapers from distribution points for factories and offices that have closed for economic reasons and shortages of electricity and raw materials, The Miami Herald reported Thursday.

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