CUBA: Don't know how to turn towards capitalism...

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My wife, the socialist, is captivated by CUBA. The grand Communist revolution and experiment that has enslaved Cubans since 1959 and condemned them to utter poverty BUT they have free medical, education and want for nothing and are happy and sing as they work…BULLSHIT.

The people are depressed and oppressed by Castro who has to be a Looney bird for believing in his own bullshit but even Fidel has been overheard complaining that his dreams have not materialized and maybe, just maybe he was wrong about Communism.

Well his brother Raul is convinced that changes now have to be made because Cuba’s economy sucks big time and has sucked since the beginning; Communism does not work and that is why Russia gave up on it.

But I have to laugh at how Raul Castro is turning Communism into capitalism.

Recently they fired thousands from their official government jobs and told them to start their own businesses, ala capitalism.

Here is the kicker, Cuba’s new business owners face a 50% personal income tax, 10% sales tax and a 25% social security tax which leaves what for the new business owners?

Other former Communist countries like Poland, etc, have managed to transition to capitalism quite nicely but the old Cubans in charge of Cuba are the same idiots that started the revolution that went nowhere. Most Cubans were born after 1959 and have known no other government other that the Castro brothers and they have NEVER paid ANY taxes.

The Castro brothers need to die or leave and Florida Cubans need to take over the country and do capitalism right!

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