Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Eugene Robinson: Castro Didn't Like "Income Inequality," A "True Believer" Of Communism
RealClearPolitics ^ | November 28, 2016 | RealClearPolitics

Posted on 11/28/2016 12:50:55 PM PST by i88schwartz

ROBINSON, WASHINGTON POST: The inequality of income and the division of society into haves and have-nots, and the way some people are getting rich. He didn't like it one bit. So he was, indeed in that sense, a true believer in the decrepit, antiquated, oppressive, communist system he put in place. As long as he drew breath... there were limits beyond which Raul Castro in any attempt to modernize or reform, limits beyond which it was difficult for him to go.

(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...


TOPICS: Cuba; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: eugenerobinson; fidelcastro
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-43 next last
To: i88schwartz

Eugene unnecessarily proves yet again that he is a total idiot, like all leftists.


21 posted on 11/28/2016 1:06:35 PM PST by ozzymandus
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Jim from C-Town

In 2006 Forbes estimated his fortune at 900 million. La Revolution has been berry berry good to him.


22 posted on 11/28/2016 1:07:08 PM PST by allblues (God is neither a Republican nor a Democrat but Satan is definitely a Democrat)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Brilliant

He was sacrificed himself by confiscating the dirty, filthy money that was sure to ruin the common people.


23 posted on 11/28/2016 1:09:07 PM PST by maro (MAGA!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: i88schwartz

Castro loved income inequality as long as the Castros lived like kings while the people starved.

Orwell nailed the commies dead on in Animal Farm making them the pigs.


24 posted on 11/28/2016 1:11:30 PM PST by MNJohnnie (This revolt is not ending, it is merely beginning.- Pat Caddell)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: i88schwartz

Income equality is a bad thing. The more equal incomes are, the more rapidly they will approach zero.


25 posted on 11/28/2016 1:12:46 PM PST by Gil4 (And the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, ax and saw)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: i88schwartz

Leftists don’t care about income inequality. They care about people doing things they didn’t authorize and don’t control. That drives them bonkers. Some of them will shoot you to make you stop.


26 posted on 11/28/2016 1:13:34 PM PST by marron
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Gil4

People should be free to be poor or rich. Charity issues should be handled by churches and politically unentangled philanthrophic entities, not governments.


27 posted on 11/28/2016 1:15:58 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 25 | View Replies]

To: justlurking

[[Robinson, you are such an idiot.

Castro didn’t like “income equality” when he was at the bottom.

So, he got enough people to revolt against Batista, then installed himself in Batista’s place.

All he did was depose one tyrant, and replace him with another tyrant — himself. ]]

Castro was never at the bottom.
He came from a middle class family and he had a college education .
Cuba had a huge middle class before Castro.


28 posted on 11/28/2016 1:16:15 PM PST by Lera ( 1 Corinthians 15:1-4)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies]

To: marron

Being rich makes one dangerous to a nanny. That’s one reason why Donald Trump is the nannies’ nightmare today.


29 posted on 11/28/2016 1:17:02 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 26 | View Replies]

To: Opinionated Blowhard

Like all leftists, they believe that the ruling class should live better than the peasants.


30 posted on 11/28/2016 1:23:17 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Conservatives love America for what it is. Liberals hate America for the same reason.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: i88schwartz

***...the way some people are getting rich. He didn’t like it one bit.***

So he ended up one of the richest men in the world, with 11 million slaves to do his bidding and an entire island and a smaller one for his “kingdom”.


31 posted on 11/28/2016 1:27:38 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: i88schwartz

Did he live in typical Cuban quarters? Did he have to shop typical Cuban markets and buy what he found available? Did he have to go to the people’s clinic when ill?

But, consider the source.


32 posted on 11/28/2016 1:27:43 PM PST by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Jim from C-Town

Under Castro, the LUCKY one’s were SHOT.
One of Uncle Fidel’s favorite methods of dispatching those he most hated was absolutely diabolical.
The bastard had a nearly air-tight glass booth constructed to hold a single individual.
The floor of the thing was perforated with hundreds of holes. Under the floor was a powerful blower. The floor would be covered with powered glass dust and slightly larger bits.
Do I need to explain the next part? Uncle Fidel and his invited guests, complimentary Cuban cigars in hand, watched as the blower was switched on amid the short-lived screams of the victim-du-jour.
THIS is the MONSTER now being lionized by obozo, the leftist morons of the MSM and outright COMMUNIST fellow travelers here in America.
FAIR WARNING: If the left (aka “DEMOCRATS”) ever achieves full control, even worse will come HERE!


33 posted on 11/28/2016 1:29:27 PM PST by Dick Bachert (THE 4TH STATE HERE HAS BECOME A 5TH COLUMN. TREASON TRIALS COMING?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Very true.

Yes, people in Cuba are “equal”, in that, they are equally miserable and equally destitute.

Average incomes, even for professional people such as doctors, is about the equivalent of $30 per month.

One of the biggest sources of foreign trade and hard currency, is, sad to say, prostitution. People send their daughters out to consort with foreign men. Ordinary Cuban housewives supplement the family income by making themselves available to foreign visitors.

But in spite of it all, they are all equal. And they have “free” healthcare.


34 posted on 11/28/2016 1:37:36 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 31 | View Replies]

To: i88schwartz

And he is absolutely right.


35 posted on 11/28/2016 1:40:21 PM PST by Organic Panic (Gentrification in America. Rich White Man Evicts Poor Black Family - MSNBCPBSCNNNYTABC)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: i88schwartz

And he died on Black Friday! ;)


36 posted on 11/28/2016 1:50:18 PM PST by Does so ( 'Time for English as the US' sole National language...==8-O)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Jim from C-Town

he was reported to be like the 14’th richest man in the world or something


37 posted on 11/28/2016 1:56:16 PM PST by Bob434
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: i88schwartz

Yeah sure right. That’s why he lived in luxury while Cubans starved


38 posted on 11/28/2016 2:43:30 PM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: i88schwartz

In Cuba everyone was equally poor except Castro and his handpicked minions.


39 posted on 11/28/2016 3:07:52 PM PST by Saltmeat
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: i88schwartz

In the great game of “Stupid Things People Have Said”, Robinson steps up and hits a grand-slam with his comments about Castro.


40 posted on 11/28/2016 3:14:07 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-43 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson