Paul Haven of The Washington Times
reports on an interesting event. If Castro were a libertarian or
conservative claiming that the free market system 'no longer works,' it would
be front page news in the United States:
'Fidel
Castro told a visiting American journalist that Cuba’s communist economic model
doesn’t work...
But
the blunt assessment by the father of Cuba’s 1959 revolution is sure to raise
eyebrows.
Jeffrey Goldberg, a national correspondent for the Atlantic
magazine, asked if Cuba’s economic system was still worth exporting to other
countries, and Mr. Castro replied: “The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us
anymore,” Mr. Goldberg wrote Wednesday in a post on his Atlantic blog.
He
said Mr. Castro made the comment casually over lunch after a long talk about
the Middle East, and did not elaborate.
...
Even
after the fall of the Soviet Union, Cuba has clung to its communist system.
The state controls well over 90 percent of the economy, paying
workers salaries of about $20 a month in return for free health care and
education, and nearly free transportation and housing. At least a portion of
every citizen’s food needs are sold to them through ration books at heavily
subsidized prices.
...
President
Raul Castro and others have instituted a series of limited economic reforms,
and have warned Cubans that they need to
start working harder and expecting less from the government.
But
the president also has made it clear he has no desire to depart from Cuba’s
socialist system or embrace capitalism.'
Typical of Socialists: 'Our system
doesn't even work for us anymore, but we're not going to abandon it!'
From Goldberg's article:
'He wasn't
rejecting the ideas of the Revolution. I took it to be an acknowledgment that
under 'the Cuban model' the state has much too big a role in the economic life
of the country.'
And, Michael Moore, the Congressional
Black Caucus, and others will still continue to sing the praises of the 'Cuban
Model.'
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