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Cuba to Fire 500,000 WorkersPosted on Sep 13, 2010
Most Cubans rely on their government for just about everything, including a job, but President Raul Castro intends to change that. Cuban officials announced Monday that roughly 10 percent of the state-employed work force is getting a pink slip. The government hopes economic reforms will allow for enough private sector activity to absorb the newly jobless, but in a country that employs 95 percent of its workers, skepticism abounds.
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By Napolean DoneHisPart, September 15, 2010 at 6:52 am Link to this comment
Cuba is morphing into what it needs to in order to continue to live REGARDLESS what malarkey comes out of PROPAGANDIST MEDIA known as CNN, FOX, etc…..
Looks like Cuba is poised to be the model of state planning and semblance to a modern Socially Equitable Society ( minus greed and power-mongering at the top, which NO historically known country ever expelled nor can they ) which puts people before profits, unlike the mantra in this Neo-Roman Empire we’re enslaved by.
Report thisBy Napolean DoneHisPart, September 15, 2010 at 6:48 am Link to this comment
The Cuban people, economy and life is moving FORWARD as planned WITHOUT the input or distraction of the Empire…
Sooner than never, the Cuban people will be even MORE self sustaining than here… a shining example of hope in the face of tyranny for over half a century ( not Castro’s tyranny mind you ).
CUBA LIBRE!
Report thisBy ofersince72, September 14, 2010 at 10:58 pm Link to this comment
What we our government has forced on Cuba,
is coming home to us tooooooooooooooo…....
So all you gloating, better get you hoe, rake,
and gardening tools together…
Because the ones that drove Cuba to the brink don’t like
Report thisyou anymore than they like Cubans…............
SCREW YOU AMERICAN CORPORATIONS AND THE LAWMAKERS THAT
SOLD OUR COUNTRY TO THEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
By PatrickHenry, September 14, 2010 at 4:10 pm Link to this comment
Good thing they can still have health care and can attend college if they choose.
Report thisBy Fat Freddy, September 14, 2010 at 10:06 am Link to this comment
berniem
Castro destroyed the Cuban economy by eliminating the casinos. The corruption of Batista caused the revolution, not a failure of Capitalism. Castro could have kept the casinos open and used the revenues to provide for his people. By the time he realized that, and reopened the casinos, it was too late. Plus, he had killed or expelled anyone who knew anything about how to run a casino. Nobody in the government knew how to do it. Besides, Western European Socialism is dying. Look at what direction Sweden has been moving in the past 20 years.
Report thisBy berniem, September 14, 2010 at 8:50 am Link to this comment
Mr. Ambriz: Are you a relative of the Batista family or do you already have a financial stake in the New Improved Cuba” that you seem to envision? Perhaps if Cuba would have been permitted to develop it’s own brand of Socialism along the lines of a Western European model instead of being forced into a protection racket scheme with the USSR thru the mechinations of the CIA, it may have turned out to be another Costa Rica(at least until recently). Give it 20 yrs. or so and Cuba will be more like Haiti than Miami!
Report thisBy Fat Freddy, September 14, 2010 at 8:31 am Link to this comment
Well, I guess they’ll have to go work for the casinos. Oh wait, they destroyed them.
I guess Michael and the “Jew in Miami” will be back there soon to work out a deal.
Seriously, there’s a right way and a wrong way to reform an economy. China got it right, and Russia got it wrong. This article explains why:
http://www.hoover.org/publications/policy-review/article/5469
The fact is, Communism and Socialism simply do not work.
Report thisBy Marco González Ambriz, September 14, 2010 at 7:38 am Link to this comment
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Another triumph of socialism. And for all of you blaming this on the U.S. or capitalism, I sincerely hope you’re not stupid enough to mention this to a Cuban unless you want a beatdown. Cubans are perfectly aware that Castro failed on his own.
Report thisBy morristhewise, September 13, 2010 at 6:28 pm Link to this comment
Hundreds of land speculators are on their way to Cuba, they are loaded with bags
Report thisfull of cash rushing to stake a claim on Havana`s choice properties. Government
officials who realize that they soon will be out of a job are negotiating to unload
the bankrupt Oasis Panorama which was once the pride of Havana. Soldiers are
ordered to shoot all looters, but they themselves are grabbing what they can
saying ADIOS AMIGO before jumping on to a Florida bound flotilla.
By Queenie, September 13, 2010 at 5:37 pm Link to this comment
This is terrible news. The U.S. has had its foot on Cuba’s throat for so long out of fear that Socialism would spread like some terrible disease.
It is bloody Capitalism that brings the plague infested blankets of “free enterprise”.
Report thisBy catauro, September 13, 2010 at 4:32 pm Link to this comment
I wish I can be a unemployed in Cuba
Report thisBy berniem, September 13, 2010 at 2:27 pm Link to this comment
Ah Capitalism! The system that drove Cuba to it’s knees will now grind it into the dirt!
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