(The Finns are smart enough to call a failure a failure, as well as act on it.)
I was recently at Phipps Conservatory in Pittsburgh, where the management had actually managed to politicize a Spring Flower Show with a display on Cuba and how we should emulate them because everything is so much more green and sustainable there since there are no American Pig Capitalists mucking the place up.
Fun Display Factoid: Cuba is a world leader in organic farming methods. This is because the Soviet Union collapsed, leaving them without a source of fertilizer. How lucky for them!!
Inside Fidel Castro’s luxurious life on his secret island getaway
https://nypost.com/2015/05/10/inside-fidel-castros-luxurious-life-on-his-secret-island-getaway/
Let's go to Margaret Thatcher for the response to Liberal income equality arguments:
"What the honorable member is saying is that he would rather the poor were poorer provided the rich were less rich. That way you will never create the wealth for better social services as we have."
In 1994 I was in Guantanamo Bay Cuba helping with the diaspora. 35,000 Cubans risked shark and barracuda infested waters to travel across the bay on rafts, inner tubes, anything they could paddle and float with.
Castro had meat rendering plants dump their residues into the bay to attract sharks and barracudas to help minimize the numbers of people escaping.
Why a Cuban would ever vote Democratic is beyond me. It is like feminists supporting Islam.
The socialist states are failing. Now with Obama gone and no longer supporting them they are falling like flies
You want to see guaranteed income and socialism?
Take a drive through an Indian reservation.
You want government single-payer health care?
Go to a VA hospital or prison
Plenty of examples here at home.
“The government employs 78% of the workers, so there is little opportunity to get an income very different from the average. How can people survive on a salary of practically nothing?”
They’re serfs?
My wife and I visited Havana last July. They have no toilet seats. None. You have to squat.
My take on Cuba. The Mafia ran it much better, and the people had more freedom.
A discouraged Soviet Citizen in Leningrad, in 1985,
summed up the situation to me.
I suggested that things did not seem to be working very well
so he offered this reason:
“We pretend to work, and they pretend to pay us”.