"Once we remove these 500,000 loafers off our payrolls,Obama
can take them. I hear he's wanting to hire more go government employees. We will trade them all for our '5 Heroes' held the yankee jail"
Posted on 09/14/2010 12:24:12 PM PDT by decimon
Cuba is to lay off huge numbers of state employees, in the biggest shift to the private sector since the revolution in 1959. But this is not the end of communism in the country, writes Stephen Wilkinson of the Centre for Caribbean and Latin American Research and Consultancy.
The media frenzy that has followed the announcement that Cuba is to reduce its state workforce by 500,000 by the middle of 2011, is similar to that which followed Fidel Castro's throwaway remark last week that the Cuban model isn't working - it has largely missed the point.
This is not the end of communism or socialism in Cuba.
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Cuba, they say, wishes to avoid the negative social consequences of the Chinese experience.
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As the Chicoms wished to avoid the "negative social consequences" of the collapsed Soviet Union when China liberalized itself.
Cuba, they say, wishes to avoid the negative social consequences of the Chinese experience
yeah, because Cuba is a paradise compared to China...
What is the estimated population of all of Cuba?
Need to put this 500,000 person layoff into perspective.
The cuban commies will still want to run everything, they’ll just want entrepeneurs to take all the risks. They’ll hide their intentions in babble like avoiding “negative social consequence”.
Taxes and regs will be so onerous that failure will be assured.
How do you lay off a slave?
11 million and change.
Reverse what you did to lay on.
Cuba will remain a prizon until after the Castros and their supporting cast of thugs are dead and buried!
"Once we remove these 500,000 loafers off our payrolls,Obama
can take them. I hear he's wanting to hire more go government employees. We will trade them all for our '5 Heroes' held the yankee jail"
I think the light is dawning that for one thing, communism sucks, and they get nothing out of the deal. And two, that being said, they don’t wish to surrender one iota of power, or their authoritarianism.
This leaves them several models to work from, for better or worse.
The first is the collapse of the Soviet Union and the eastern European states. They clearly don’t want that, so anything they do will be very measured.
The second is what China is doing, which is looking more and more like what Batista had been doing. So that is probably right out as well.
The third is modeling Cuba after Vietnam. Keeping total control of politics, media & speech, and some other things, but allowing the capitalists to do their thing, as long as they don’t get too obnoxious about it. Neither Vietnam nor Cuba had any real axe to grind with religion, except because of communism, so would probably allow a limited number of official religions, as long as they remain low key.
The fourth, any kind of confederation deal with the other leftists in the region would be pretty much a wash. This is a national thing about Hispanic countries, in that they don’t really mesh well with each other, politically, culturally, or socially. Intermarriages between Hispanics from different countries are very rare, compared to just about any other ethnic-national grouping.
Sounds like Cuba will be the next Communist China...the Liberal Free Trader Globalists have always had the wet-dream of “opening” up Communist Cuba to “trade”....
Of course, the Liberal Free Trade Globalists have no problem keeping Castro(s) in power....as in Communist China....the Free Trader Globalists want to keep to Communists in power in Cuba.
Note that the Communist nations Free Trader Globalists have infilitrated (China, Vietnam) are still run by Communists....while the nations they could not get a hold into (Russia, Eastern Europe) dumped the Communists.
There should be no change in Cuba policy until the Commies and the Castros are totally removed from the country
Roughly 11.5 million. with a growing population. Not by much, but more babies being born every year than those dying.
My rough guestimate means they are moving to an approximate 10%+ unemployment rate.
Oh, and I believe that they intend to lay off another 500,000 more eventually in increments.
How do you lay off a slave?
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Boatlift to the USA
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