Cuba lays of 500,000 employees, 1/5th total work force to follow

[iGas]

A reminder of what, that sometimes government lay people off? Ya, I guess they should rush to the private employment for protection.

Ever heard of Fat Government?

There will be a time that the government have to shed large amount of dead weight.

I have had exposure working inside government as a contractor, and the only people that I sees working hard or producing are contractors while the government employees hovers over us or simply killing time for a paycheck.

 

[tinker2141]

Ever heard of Fat Government?

There will be a time that the government have to shed large amount of dead weight.

I have had exposure working inside government as a contractor, and the only people that I sees working hard or producing are contractors while the government employees hovers over us or simply killing time for a paycheck.

You do any military contracting? Just ask because that sounds just like the GS/WG personnel I have to work around. You say anything negative to them they wrap themselves with a flag, puff out their chest and state I am a retired such and such. I always laugh and tell them to put the uniform back on help us win the war or stfu. It is always worth the ass chewing. I like the fact you can transition, it sucks that most that do are milking their way to a second retirement that is better than the first. You want to trim some fat take a hard look there first.

 

[CycloWizard]

Yes, you.

"Cuba announced on Monday it would lay off "at least" half a million state workers over the next six months..."

Not sure why you are an idiot and can;t read the WHOLE story. 500,000+ are being laid off now based on a promise to lay off 1 million. So no 1 million are not being laid off now, but his promise was for 1 million. As of now it is around half that mark.

Why do you believe that they'll lay off 500k people in the first six months but not believe that they'll lay off a million within a year? Cover those tracks...

 

[CycloWizard]

First, you didn't answer the question.

Second, I read the article.

Third, it's no such admission any more than the US passing finance reform is an admission that 'the US economic model has failed'. Certainly it's had flaws.

That's not a question about MY opinion (I suspect you rushed to assume otherwise), it's simply pointing out the error of your statement about THEIR position.

They aren't exactly saying that they are opening the Havana office of Goldman Sachs to provide the same sort of services Greece received - nor should they do that.

It's great to see this shift they're making for grass roots economic freedom. The problems we liberal raise aren't from that - they're from the macro situation.

Hopefully Cuba stops short of having 40% of their economy dominated by 'big finance' like we have.

Cuba's government was the only employer until recently, and now that's changing at an accelerated rate. How exactly is that equivalent to financial reform in the US? Strawman.

 

[Craig234]

Ever heard of Fat Government?

There will be a time that the government have to shed large amount of dead weight.

I have had exposure working inside government as a contractor, and the only people that I sees working hard or producing are contractors while the government employees hovers over us or simply killing time for a paycheck.

Uh, ya, I've heard of fat government - largely from right-wing propaganda and its dupes.

You are just posting drivel, 'all government workers are sitting around, and all private workers are not'.

The two are a lot more similar than you realize, with your apparently limited information.

It's a bit amusing to see you argue the opposite of the usual proapganda, complaining that there is too little employment protection for those in the government.

You should learn that there's a reason for propaganda. When the rish look at democracy working well and money going for a good purpose that helps peple, it's in their economic interest - at least their short term interest - to say 'screw this democracy, that's money that could be in my pocket instead'. But that doesn't sell well to voters who frustratingly still have the vote, so propaganda is created to get the same result - with lies, myth, emotion. Hate all government is the message - to get money shifted away from the public.

But instead, you just fall for it hook, line and sinker. Like all good propagands, there's a nugget of truth, used to tell a lie. You are a nice servent for them though, parroting the line here.

 

[Craig234]

Cuba's government was the only employer until recently, and now that's changing at an accelerated rate. How exactly is that equivalent to financial reform in the US? Strawman.

How ironic.

You misrepresent what I said, and call what you say I said a strawman - in your strawman.

 

[alkemyst]

I hope Obama doesn't extend the red carpet to them in Florida like he did those Haitians.

 

[Lemon law]

First the USA places a total embargo on Cuba, and then jumps up and down and says see communism does not work.

We can debate on the current economic prosperity of the Cuban people, but no doubt about it, for the average Cuban, the rule of Batista was a disaster. After Baptista fell, the few rich took their money and ran, but the average person was infinitely better off. And in the medical care area, Cubans have a medical care infinitely better than most South and Central American nations.

And now we have a South Florida policy and not a foreign policy regarding Cuba. The early Cubans who fled Cuba when Castro took over had the dream or fantasy
that they could return to Cuba when Castro was militarily overthrown, and those first generation Cuban-Americans are now dying out, and as the second and third generation Cuban-Americans now assume leadership, very few of them want to return to live in Cuba. But still many of those Cuban-American have family member still in Cuba they would like to visit.

Meanwhile, Cuba was in half way decent shape until the Soviet Union fell apart in the late eighties and early nineties. With the lack of Russian help, and with agricultural crop prices fairly low, it was mainly Raul Castro who instituted the policy of Cuba as a vacation spot for mainly Canadians. Now with the world wide recession biting the US and Canada, tourism as a luxury item is the first things many
people cut from their expenditures.

So Cuba is hurting again, and when the income reduces something has to go. But still the Castro brothers are getting rather old and neither will live much longer. So a
yet unknown Cuban leader will soon take over. And then hopefully both the USA and Cuba can end the irrational snit that soured Cuban and USA relations for the mutual benefit of all.

 

[CycloWizard]

How ironic.

You misrepresent what I said, and call what you say I said a strawman - in your strawman.

I actually had hope for you for a while there, but I give up. You really are an idiot.