Gag Me With a Mango: Seattle P.I. Op-Ed Extols Cuba's Communist Agriculture

Seattle Post-Intelligencer/NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Seattle P-I/NewsBusters ping to Today show list.

[butternut_squash_bisque]

Commies+socialists+marxists+leninists = dumb as rocks in a box.

[keithtoo]

UK Independent = Independent of Reason and Evidence

[sauropod]

But, but, but... It's a worker's paradise!

At least that's what they told me.

[popdonnelly]

This article is nonsense. Farmers throughout the World produce agricultural products more efficiently than Cuba's economy could ever dream of doing. It's unfortunate that a newspaper sees fit to publish this bit of pro-Castro propaganda.

[GladesGuru]

That paper published that Communistic crap because they know their readership.

[Bahbah]

I believe that the situation for poor people is better in Cuba. Our society is more equal.

Yep, almost all of us live in poverty and raise our own food out of necessity (except for a very few in the power structure, who live very well indeed...Castro being one of the world's richest men and all that). Unbelievable how these idiots delude themselves.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Dizzy with Success.

[hardworking]

O-K.....now tell me, Ms. Berkeley Sociologist, which grocery store you would rather shop in. The beautiful Patrini's on University Ave in Berkeley, or a so-called grocery in Havana? H-m-m-m-m....I can guess your answer.

[Mr. Mojo]

"To the right lay revolutionary tomatoes and to the left lay revolutionary lettuces, while in the glass in my hand, filled to the brim and frothing with vitality, was the juice from revolutionary mangoes. It was thick, unfiltered and fabulously sweet. It was also organic."

lol....Mr. Bumcombe would last less than a week in this "island paradise" before crying for his mum.

[Beagle8U]

I vote we take some liberal/socialist/communist city about the size of Cuba ( Seattle ?) and give them total control of everything as a test case.

They can grow their own food, drill their own oil ( or use wind power),produce everything they want to use. After , say 4 years, they can vote to keep the nutballs in power forever, or vote to hang them all publicly as a display of liberal stupidity, and what not to do.

That would pretty much put the last nail in the donk coffin if it were ever tried.

[jonascord]

Such spectacular stupidity, in this day and age, with as much data on the true price of a worker's paradise, must be from a 'journalist' or a college professor.

[tet68]

Everyone is happy to work here at Fidelito's Organic Farms...
or they don't get a "free meal".

[canadianally]

Here is the Letter to the Editor I submitted"

Re: Cuba's agricultural revolution an example to the world

I never even considered that communism was so superior to capitalism. Kudos to your fine paper. Do you think our farmers might be interested or will they need to be re-educated first?

[aquila48]

"Our society is more equal."

Yes, equally poor!!

[Bubba_Leroy]

To the right lay revolutionary tomatoes and to the left lay revolutionary lettuces, while in the glass in my hand, filled to the brim and frothing with vitality, was the juice from revolutionary mangoes.

To my feet lay the bodies of Castro's slave laborers. In the distance, I could hear the moans of Castro's political prisoners.

[Bubba_Leroy]

I believe that the situation for poor people is better in Cuba. Our society is more equal.

Yes, society is more equal when everyone is poor (except, of course, communist party hacks, but some people are just more equal than others).

[popdonnelly]

"To the right lay revolutionary tomatoes"

You can tell the revolutionary tomatoes by the little Che Guevara tee-shirts.