zsdersw
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I am trying to show that even communists understand you need to fire government workers and the government needs a much smaller role in the economy. If Cuba gets it then why are Americans too stupid to understand it?
Jaskalas
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Smaller than what? Smaller than 85% of workers, or smaller than 8% of workers?
The only thing you've shown is that you don't understand arithmetic, and that you have no sense of proportion.
Not that I'm much of a defender of the Castro regime, at all, but it is important to understand the total corruption of the former Batista regime, the fact that Cuba was run not for the benefit of Cubans, but rather for the benefit of American interests, the Mafia prominent among them.
It's not like our ongoing embargo has done jack shit for Cubans, either.
Why? Are you a partisan hack? There is nothing extreme there, its just fear mongering
Albatross
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Could have been done the right way,but an uneducated population is always vulnerable to populist thugs.
Cuba could have made Las Vegas a backwater but instead has tread water for half a century.
Either way Cuba has the right idea and its a good thing they realize the government needs to be smaller
CrackRabbit
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"The death of one man is a tragedy, the death of many is a statistic." - Joseph Stalin
What our idiot in OP doesn't realize is that these reforms are the Castro regime's lasts grasps on power.
They are doing little things to keep the populaces anger from boiling over and sending them all on a short boat trip into the Atlantic.
Cuba will likely be an impoverished island nation for a long time to come, but I don't think it will be a communist one before I'm no longer here.
Capt Caveman
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- Jan 30, 2005
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Is your brain too small to understand their political and economic history and situation?
Are you saying China is worse off politically and economically now then it was under Mao's leftist planned economic policies?
Really are you?
So when leftist hold up Cuba up as a comparison to the US to support their false perceived views on our health care system and dismissal of costs related to this same system they aren't doing to the same?
hal2kilo
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BudAshes
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This is good news though, 1 million less people working for government and they want to ease restrictions on the private sector. How can you not support this?
They dont like it because it proves their communist beliefs simply don't work. The liberal has no concept of history, it is a severe mental illness.
Yeh, sure, I support Cuba reducing the % of their workforce on the govt payroll from 85% to 66%. It's their country.
That is, however, not even vaguely comparable to the situation in the US, where <8% of the workforce is on a govt payroll.
Your refusal to recognize the difference marks you as an idiot or a liar, take your pick.
It proves nothing other than your own flavor of ideological hackery.
If we set out to follow Cuba's example, we could raise the % of the workforce on govt payrolls to 66%. Not that I advocate any such thing.
Whadda ya think, nimrod? Do facts matter to you at all? Do you live, breathe & eat false equivalency?
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