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Cuba to eliminate 500,000 state jobs, spur private sector
MSNBC ^ | msnbc.com news services

Posted on 09/13/2010 12:42:58 PM PDT by Ancient Drive

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. The layoffs will start immediately and run through the first half of next year, according to an announcement Monday by the nearly 3 million-strong Cuban Workers Confederation — the only labor union the government tolerates. The statement said eventually more than a million jobs would be cut and, due to efforts to increase efficiency in the state sector, there would be few new state sector openings. More than 85 percent of the Cuban labor force, or over 5 million people, worked for the state at the close of 2009, according to the government. "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. "Job options will be increased and broadened with new forms of non-state employment, among them leasing land, cooperatives and self-employment, absorbing hundreds of thousands of workers in the coming years," it said.

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TOPICS: Cuba; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cuba
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1 posted on 09/13/2010 12:43:02 PM PDT by Ancient Drive
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To: Ancient Drive

Wow, so Cuba gets it but we don’t?


2 posted on 09/13/2010 12:44:21 PM PDT by Minus_The_Bear
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To: Ancient Drive

Obama gets credit in 5... 4... 3...


3 posted on 09/13/2010 12:44:35 PM PDT by Dan Nunn (Support the NRA!)
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To: Ancient Drive

But, but, but I thought Fidel meant the exact opposite of what they reported? The media is soooo full of it.


4 posted on 09/13/2010 12:45:03 PM PDT by library user
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To: Ancient Drive

Shazam!

Obama is thinking of adding 500,000 public sector workers.

We are trending against Cuba, who would have thunk the US would be more Communistic than they are?


5 posted on 09/13/2010 12:45:43 PM PDT by wac3rd (Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)
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To: wac3rd

When the 500k Cubans cannot all find private sector jobs in Cuba, perhaps they will try to boat on over and find a public sector job here.


6 posted on 09/13/2010 12:48:21 PM PDT by married21 (As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: Ancient Drive

I didn’t know they had 500,000 jobs in the whole country..........


7 posted on 09/13/2010 12:49:08 PM PDT by Red Badger (No, Obama's not the Antichrist. But he does have him in his MY FAVES.............)
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To: Ancient Drive
Cuba will let more than 500,000 state employees go by next March

What is Cuba's population these days. That has to be a big honking chunk of their working age adults that are going to be looking for jobs in March. Finances must be getting very thin for the Castro boys for them to make a move this big this fast.
8 posted on 09/13/2010 12:49:19 PM PDT by GonzoGOP (There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
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To: married21

Yes, Affirmative Action candidates will supplant any Crackers from those lifetime faux-middle class jobs provided by Government.


9 posted on 09/13/2010 12:51:48 PM PDT by wac3rd (Somewhere in Hell, Ted Kennedy snickers....)
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To: Ancient Drive

OK This is nuts

Castro has said communism does not work, tough the media again kept that quiet for the most part.
They are now looking at he private sector while we move into socialism and if this man in the white house had his way communism.

They and Europe are going right and we’re the only ones going left, frigging wake up you dope media and left wing nuts.


10 posted on 09/13/2010 12:51:48 PM PDT by manc (WILL OBAMA EVER GO TO CHURCH ON A SUNDAY OR WILL HE LET THE MEDIA/LEFT BE FOOLED FOR EVER)
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To: Ancient Drive

This has to be very displeasing to the commucrats. What a hoot!


11 posted on 09/13/2010 12:52:11 PM PDT by PORD (People Of Right & Duty!)
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Cuba to eliminate 500,000 state jobs, spur private sector

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12 posted on 09/13/2010 12:52:50 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: Ancient Drive

13 posted on 09/13/2010 12:54:20 PM PDT by LibFreeUSA (Show me what Obama brought that was new and there you will find things only radical and destructive.)
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To: Ancient Drive
Stat IM and Twitter to Obama. .
14 posted on 09/13/2010 12:55:26 PM PDT by Art in Idaho (Conservatism is the only hope for Western Civilization.)
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To: Ancient Drive

Maybe we should trade Obama for Castro.


15 posted on 09/13/2010 12:56:31 PM PDT by ZULU (No nation which tried to tolerate Islam escaped Islamization)
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To: GonzoGOP
OK I goggled it myself out of curiosity. They have 11.2 million people in the entire country. So firing 500,000 government employees would be like the US sending home almost 14 million government employees. As bloated as the US Federal government is it only has 2.15 million parasites federal employees.
16 posted on 09/13/2010 12:56:54 PM PDT by GonzoGOP (There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
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To: GonzoGOP

TOTAL population 11.4 million according to Wiki...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Cuba#Demographic_statistics_from_the_Official_2002_Cuba_Census


17 posted on 09/13/2010 12:59:07 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: Ancient Drive
A must email to my liberal friends. Cuba is downsizing their government. Cuba!
18 posted on 09/13/2010 1:01:50 PM PDT by ocr1 (really?.. Really?)
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To: Ancient Drive

So Obama’s left of Castro? Wow.


19 posted on 09/13/2010 1:07:33 PM PDT by Spok (Free Range Republican)
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To: Ancient Drive

Riots in the streets and rebellion in Cuba in a year.


20 posted on 09/13/2010 1:08:57 PM PDT by FormerACLUmember (Character is defined by how we treat those who society says have no value.)
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