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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.

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TOPICS: Cuba; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: eugenerobinson; fidelcastro
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1 posted on 11/28/2016 12:50:55 PM PST by i88schwartz
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He sure liked ‘Lifestyle Inequality’ He and his family lived like kings while his people where beaten, brutalized and starved to death. Robinson is an idiot liberal


2 posted on 11/28/2016 12:53:09 PM PST by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: i88schwartz

http://nypost.com/2015/05/10/inside-fidel-castros-luxurious-life-on-his-secret-island-getaway/


3 posted on 11/28/2016 12:53:11 PM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: i88schwartz

Is that WHY Fidel owned a private island paradise vacation home, had many mansions, a yacht, and many, many 100s of millions of USA dollars socked away, as the populace starved and lived in wretched conditions?


4 posted on 11/28/2016 12:53:42 PM PST by nopardons
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To: i88schwartz
You've heard media types referred to as "useful idiots"?

Well, Eugene Robinson is a useless idiot.

5 posted on 11/28/2016 12:54:20 PM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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To: i88schwartz

I wonder if Robinson thinks that Castro lived in a hut like the millions of poor Cubans who suffered under his Communist policies.


6 posted on 11/28/2016 12:54:40 PM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: i88schwartz

Absolute Malarky!

Total Horse$hit from the filthy Leftist.

Castro lived like a king.


7 posted on 11/28/2016 12:54:51 PM PST by Enlightened1
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To: nopardons

But everybody got a free rice cooker and a roll of TP a month.

See? #equality


8 posted on 11/28/2016 12:55:29 PM PST by digger48
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To: i88schwartz

“True believer” is what I’d call the saps that fall for the communist marketing plan, not the ones on top that know what their doing.

Communists promise economic equality but they can only do that by eliminating property rights (which includes your cash) and distributing “fairly”.

What that means, in effect, is the gov (more importantly, those running the gov) own EVERYTHING, keep what they want for themselves and toss the scraps to you and me.

Fidel and his family knew/know EXACTLY what they’re doing.

True believers are those that actually BELIEVE the commie tripe.


9 posted on 11/28/2016 12:55:56 PM PST by fruser1
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To: i88schwartz

So why was he rich while the rest of the country was poor?


10 posted on 11/28/2016 12:57:05 PM PST by Brilliant
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He was a true communist leader. He takes 98 out of 100 while graciously allowing the peasants to share the 2.


11 posted on 11/28/2016 12:57:11 PM PST by Leep (Stronger without her!)
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To: digger48

That’s better than what the people in Venezuela get. ;^)


12 posted on 11/28/2016 12:57:43 PM PST by nopardons
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To: i88schwartz

I’ll go to a proven leftist moron like Eugene Robinson for my research on Fidel Castro, next time I feel a need to check what I already know. I know I simply must be missing some glimmer of wonderfulness and altruism from an otherwise ruthless mass-murderer, terrorist, and thief.


13 posted on 11/28/2016 12:58:51 PM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder (I had a cool idea for a new tagline and I forgot it!)
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To: i88schwartz

You want to see income inequality? Take a look at Brazil.


14 posted on 11/28/2016 12:59:49 PM PST by Steely Tom ([VOTE FRAUD] == [CIVIL WAR])
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To: i88schwartz
Sure as H*ll didn't keep him and his cronies from living in the lap of luxury! Chavez' Daughter is rumored to have FOUR BILLION DOLLARS worth of SWISS ASSETS! I guess it pays to have a murderous dictator as a parent!
15 posted on 11/28/2016 1:00:15 PM PST by ExSES (the "bottom-line")
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This article apparently features a new meme of the left: “Fidel Castro was the fiery revolutionary communist who was too committed to an ‘antiquated’ version of Communism. Raul is a pragmatic, modern reformer, who will gradually move Cuba to a kinder gentler form of Communism, if we only placate him.”

Yeah, that’s the ticket...


16 posted on 11/28/2016 1:00:34 PM PST by CaptainMorgantown
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Fidel Castro is not really dead. He’s actually working as a cashier at a small truck stop outside Adair, Oklahoma. Jimmy Hoffa owns the place. Jim Morrison works the parts counter and Elvis runs the diner next door.

I read it on the internet so it must be true...


17 posted on 11/28/2016 1:00:51 PM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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To: i88schwartz
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.

18 posted on 11/28/2016 1:00:53 PM PST by justlurking (#TurnOffCNN)
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To: Jim from C-Town

I saw an interview with a Cuban citizen (now in USA) claiming the Castro was great because he always fought for his people. I laughed out loud.


19 posted on 11/28/2016 1:04:07 PM PST by showme_the_Glory ((ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government))
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To: justlurking

Leftist freaks love leftist tyrants.


20 posted on 11/28/2016 1:04:13 PM PST by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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