Cuba to Obama...
Steve Manacek ·
Sep 13, 2010 at 7:00pm
... and California, New York, Illinois, .... From msnbc this afternoon:
HAVANA — Cuba will let more than 500,000 state employees go by next March and try to move most to non-state jobs in the biggest shift to the private sector since the 1960s, the official Cuban labor federation said Monday....
"Our state cannot and should not continue maintaining companies, productive entities, services and budgeted sectors with bloated payrolls (and) losses that hurt the economy," the statement said.
Well, good heavens! If even the Castro brothers are starting to get it, where does that leave Obama, Reid, Pelosi, and the Democrat cabals running things in Sacramento, Albany, Springfield, and so many other state capitals?
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Re: Cuba to Obama...
Wow! Fidel wasn't joking recently when he said "The Cuban model isn't working for us anymore."
May '10
Re: Cuba to Obama...
While Fidel and Raul have had 50 years since they achieved their Worker's Paradise to understand that their brand of socialism is a colossal failure, our domestic sociali....err....Democrats are but standing on the threshold of their bureaucratic utopia. Would you expect them to suddenly see the light and give up quietly?? As was stated in the comments of Pat Sajak's poverty post below "...the war on prosperity is going quite well."
I suspect that it would take at least 50 more years for our liberal overlords to experience a "Castro Conversion". And do we really want to feel the same compassion that the Cuban people have experienced?
Edited on Sep 13, 2010 at 7:20pmMay '10
Re: Cuba to Obama...
This world gets more surreal every day.
May '10
Re: Cuba to Obama...
And we thought it was bad when President Obama was governing to the left of France!
Aug '10
Re: Cuba to Obama...
Let' see... $ 750 million, 30,000 lovers, longest officeholder. What's not to like ? Ask the population of Cuba. Too scared to talk, we can only guess . But best bet :would a little home grown love before the final curtain against all odds be worth trying ?Khruschev and the rest / all dead . ha ha ha !
May '10
Re: Cuba to Obama...
This must be the part when the State withers away.
Aug '10
Re: Cuba to Obama...
There's an ironic lesson to be learned from this story: Only a totalitarian government could possibly lay off 500'000 government employees. In a democratic country, the employees' unions would bring the government to a grinding halt if it tried to lay off that many people.
May '10
Re: Cuba to Obama...
Sean Penn just untaped the Castro poster from his bedroom wall and tore it to shreds. Next up, a two-week bender. One shudders to think what will happen if Chavez loses.
Is Cuba now accepting foreign investment in private enterprise? Because somebody will have to employ those people, and the only real available capital is in the hands of gummint.
PS Fidel is dead. Has been for years. Though I just bet they froze his head.
May '10
Re: Cuba to Obama...
Well, you kind of have to go to Sweden these days to see true health care reform, government divestiture of industry, and school choice. Next place will be Cuba.