Posted on 06/21/2019 12:23:16 PM PDT by Kaslin
RUSH: Speaking of Cuba, I happen to have a story here from the Wall Street Journal in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers: “Cuba Ration Lines Grow Tense as Economy Flails.” But the people there are not gonna overthrow anybody. They don’t have any means to do so and they’re too hungry! They don’t even have the energy to do it! This is socialism on crack! Cuba is now breeding ostriches to feed the starving masses. Cuba now is telling its people that the “steaks,” quote-unquote, that they buy are delicious and nutritious.
They’re actually made of dried grapefruit, folks. The Cuban government is telling its people that the “steaks” — and I don’t know where they go to buy these, but they’re telling them they’re steaks and they’re actually dried grapefruit rinds. For people that figure it out, the Cuban agriculture commissioner is encouraging people to eat rodents. He says they taste better than beef anyway. With all this going on, the government is rationing food. There’s a quote from a Cuban person/citizen here: “They treat us like cockroaches. They step on us.”
It’s woman on the line, referring to Cuba’s ruling establishment. She said that she been waiting for about two hours. “Everything in Cuba is political, even the chicken. They have everything, and we suffer.” She’s talking about the Cuban government. The headline of the story is: “Cuba Ration Lines Grow Tense as Economy Flails.” That’s a misleading headline. The Cuban economy has never succeeded. It’s been a socialist-communist economy ever since the “revolucion,” 1959. “Cuba Ration Lines Grow Tense as Economy” Continues to Flail.
Well, an old boss told me he got fired from an egg farm when he dropped a bucket of eggs, and the chickens got a taste of the eggs.
The chickens would then peck open their own eggs. Those chickens were no longer good for eggs.
OTOH, WWII England, they slaughtered all the chickens to save the feed grain for bread.
(Ancient Rome had grain laws that spawned the capon.)
When Rhodesia became Zimbabwe, the war on white farmers led to food shortages when the non-farmer idiots used the seed corn, er, maize, for food, instead of planting it.
MMMM! Python, the other white meat.
But we are God fearing rednecks.
Try it in unbelieving Cuba. The result will be an industrial scale sulk.
I can catch a couple dozen sardines in 15 min using a Sabiki rig.
Again... that’s what God fearing rednecks will do if they must — and they will glorify God for those sardines! At some point Satan gives up in disgust.
Poor Cuba — spiritually poor, I mean.
Sugar? He was lucky. Leather back then, was probably processed, um, tanned, with arsenic and/or chromium.
But everyone in Hollywood and TV says Cuba is a Country to Emulate for their True Equality of the citizenry, They wouldn’t lie on TV would they?
“They can’t even raise PIGS???”
Certainly there are some reserved for the Regime and Tourists at the high end Restaurants which 95% of the population will never be able to afford.
Filet of sole?
Squirrels are rodents, right? I’ve eaten squirrel — a looong time ago, when Dad hunted. It was good.
One problem I can see, would be if he were to have his other boot for Christmas that year. (Then he would be "Sans-Bottes" for the New Year!)
(I looked up your FR page!) :-)
(Have to get back to work now, so have a great day!)
If the Cubans are as fat as the Venezuelans, nobody is starving yet.
so sorry if this is a stupid question — why don’t people raise chicken, or pigs?
The real curse in our society is that so many otherwise intelligent people can see society after society after society ... for 100 years ... go socialist and fall into abject poverty coupled with crushing oppression yet they still embrace socialism and think it’s the best system for prosperity. Since FDRs time these “useful idiots” are relentless, never stopping their chipping away at the bedrock foundation of American success and prosperity. Eventually all this undermining will probably work and America, the greatest success story in human history, will itself collapse into socialistic nightmare with secret police and lines for toilet paper. I hope I never see it though.
can’t they get their hands on seeds to grow vegetables?
Yes, it is a stupid question, but here is the answer:
In a socialist/communist society there is no motivation
for individuals to do anything for themselves.
The products of their efforts would be owned by the state.
Well, there are ‘popular gardens,’ which work great until someone comes at night at steals all your produce.
“The popular gardens have not been problem-free. Some major constraints include the scarcity of available land in densely populated areas; the scarcity of water, particularly during the dry season from November to April; the poor quality of the urban topsoil, which is often littered with garbage, glass, and shards of concrete and other building materials; plant disease and pests; and theft of garden produce, which is largely due to the ongoing food shortages.”
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