FatHobbit
Posts: 8,651
Sep 9, 2010 3:26pm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/sep/09/fidel-castro-cuba-economic-model
That's a pretty big statement.
That's a pretty big statement.
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QuakerOats
Posts: 8,740
Sep 9, 2010 3:55pm
FatHobbit;477267 wrote:http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/sep/09/fidel-castro-cuba-economic-model
That's a pretty big statement.
Obama needs to have lunch with him.
CenterBHSFan
Posts: 6,115
Sep 9, 2010 4:01pm
After all these years, and just as many people living in abject poverty, what was his first clue?
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I Wear Pants
Posts: 16,223
Sep 9, 2010 4:09pm
Who knew right?
ptown_trojans_1
Posts: 7,632
Sep 9, 2010 6:25pm
Maybe I'm a little off, but I'm coming to like Castro the last few weeks. He has spoken out against nuclear weapons, against Iran's drive for a weapon and foreign policy, regretted his decision in the Cuban missile crisis and his various decisions over the years.
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cbus4life
Posts: 2,849
Sep 10, 2010 2:05am
Well, Castro has told us something already knew.
And, Quaker, i like the comment.
And, Quaker, i like the comment.
killdeer
Posts: 1,538
Sep 10, 2010 2:12am
.....but really big cigars and olive green leisure suits are 'da bomb.
Little Danny
Posts: 4,288
Sep 10, 2010 5:01am
Castro is FOS. 50 years later and all of a sudden he comes to the realization it does not work? Cuba has been dirt poor and starving for the past 49 years. What makes it different now? He is just trying to engender himself to a world that is sympathetic to the Red cause and who feels sorry for an aging, dying man. He knows the guy who occupies the White House and the majority of Congress share some of his world views, so he is hoping to make the most out of this mea culpa as much as he can.
ernest_t_bass
Posts: 24,984
Sep 10, 2010 6:31am
I agree with Little Danny! He has an agenda.
tk421
Posts: 8,500
Sep 10, 2010 2:06pm
A politician with an agenda? Surely you jest.
CenterBHSFan
Posts: 6,115
Sep 10, 2010 3:30pm
ptown_trojans_1;477542 wrote:Maybe I'm a little off, but I'm coming to like Castro the last few weeks. He has spoken out against nuclear weapons, against Iran's drive for a weapon and foreign policy, regretted his decision in the Cuban missile crisis and his various decisions over the years.
I'm thinking his brother has alot to do with that. He [brother] is probably sick of Fidel and his policies and wants something different. And if he can get cooperation from other countries, it would sure help the cause. So, he's making Fidel slowly and surely recant alot of things.
FatHobbit
Posts: 8,651
Sep 14, 2010 9:05am
Cuba has a population of 5.1 million and the government is going to lay off 500,000 of them. That's some serious unemployment.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CB_CUBA_MASS_LAYOFFS?SITE=OHCOL&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
This part especially made me LOL
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CB_CUBA_MASS_LAYOFFS?SITE=OHCOL&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
This part especially made me LOL
I don't know how you interpret "Cuba's communist economy no longer works" to mean capitalist reforms would never work in Cuba.The labor overhaul comes less than a week after Fidel Castro caused a stir around the globe when he was quoted by visiting American magazine writer Jeffrey Goldberg as saying Cuba's communist economy no longer works.
Castro later said that while he was not misquoted, his words were misinterpreted - and that he meant to say capitalist reforms could never work in Cuba.
Little Danny
Posts: 4,288
Sep 14, 2010 5:40pm
ptown_trojans_1;477542 wrote:Maybe I'm a little off, but I'm coming to like Castro the last few weeks. He has spoken out against nuclear weapons, against Iran's drive for a weapon and foreign policy, regretted his decision in the Cuban missile crisis and his various decisions over the years.
Your thoughts and emotions are exactly what Castro hopes will sweep most of Americans and our politicians. In reality he still hates our guts, would slit our throats if it were to his advantage and is only doing this now out of desperation. Castro is no hero.
Red Rum
Posts: 1,006
Sep 14, 2010 5:53pm
I have a sneaky feeling a request for US monetary aid is coming. Bad timing Fidel.
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Footwedge
Posts: 9,265
Sep 14, 2010 5:56pm
The US boycotts and denial of American tourism in Cuba also played a role in Cuba's demise. Having to buy Cuban cigars under the table sucked back in the day.
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Footwedge
Posts: 9,265
Sep 14, 2010 5:58pm
Red Rum;484012 wrote:I have a sneaky feeling a request for US monetary aid is coming. Bad timing Fidel.
The US only shells out billions to "peaceful" countries like Israel, Turkey and Saudi Arabia.
Red Rum
Posts: 1,006
Sep 14, 2010 6:11pm
He's still gonna ask. He wouldn't be talking this crap if he wasn't. I'm guessing he's tired of knobbing Hugo Chavez for pennies. He needs some serious cash to save his statues from being torn down when he finally kicks it.Footwedge;484018 wrote:The US only shells out billions to "peaceful" countries like Israel, Turkey and Saudi Arabia.
FatHobbit
Posts: 8,651
Sep 24, 2010 12:26pm
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/09/24/cuba.jobs/index.html?hpt=T2
Cubans are going to be allowed to work for themselves now. Seems like socialism is crumbling there...
Cubans are going to be allowed to work for themselves now. Seems like socialism is crumbling there...
BGFalcons82
Posts: 2,173
Sep 24, 2010 2:25pm
FatHobbit;495406 wrote:http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/09/24/cuba.jobs/index.html?hpt=T2
Cubans are going to be allowed to work for themselves now. Seems like socialism is crumbling there...
Yep....only socialism is like a virus that won't go away and it headed North to infect us. :eek:
FatHobbit
Posts: 8,651
Sep 24, 2010 2:46pm
BGFalcons82;495553 wrote:Yep....only socialism is like a virus that won't go away and it headed North to infect us. :eek:
I wonder if Michael Moore will be going back to do a documentary on how it's not working now?
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gut
Posts: 15,058
Sep 25, 2010 9:45pm
Communism doesn't work, so moving closer to communism away from capitalism is a good thing? Yes, I realize socialism and communism are not the same, but economically not that different.