Fidel's Legacy or LOL at the Socialist Utopia

[esthermoon]

The Russian-made jeep carrying the ashes of the late Cuban dictator Fidel Castro broke down in the middle of his funeral procession on Saturday, forcing soldiers to push the vehicle until it could be repaired.

This is the perfect end to Fidel Castro and his revolution. Before he took over, Cuba was the most prosperous nation in the Caribbean. His effect on his nation is best illustrated by soldiers pushing his remains trough Havana.

You are mistaken; before the revolution the only money in Cuba was from Americans visiting to play at casinos and hire prostitutes which many mothers and their daughters had to do due to poverty. CIA money kept the fiendish dictator, Bautista, in place and the island was a police state with mafia links. The revolution and Castro's leadership brought back dignity to the people and now the island boasts food and shelter for all as well as free education and health care from some of the world's finest doctors ... and all this despite an invasion by the CIA and their paid Cuban traitors who got a whipping and decades of a US embargo. It is little wonder that ordinary Cubans loved Fidel.

Yeah, especially those ordinary Cubans lucky enough to have jobs working in Cuba's European-owned hotels. Fidel's wonderful government negotiates their salaries with the foreign companies, the foreign companies pay the salaries to the government in Euros, the government extracts their "management fees," and passes the pittance left over on to the workers...in the form of nearly worthless Cuban pesos. What's not to love!

Unlike the USA, Cuba has no unemployment or lack of medical care and free education which is endemic among millions of Americans.

No unemployment at all? Are you sure?
I'm asking you that because it seems pretty impossible that all people have a job without any exception

 

[esthermoon]

Cuba's national pastime has been keeping 50s vintage cars running.

I like those vintage cars

 

[blastoff]

Cuba's national pastime has been keeping 50s vintage cars running.

I like those vintage cars

Me too. Lots of them are in remarkably good shape considering their age and amount of use they get.

 

[Eloy]

The Russian-made jeep carrying the ashes of the late Cuban dictator Fidel Castro broke down in the middle of his funeral procession on Saturday, forcing soldiers to push the vehicle until it could be repaired.

This is the perfect end to Fidel Castro and his revolution. Before he took over, Cuba was the most prosperous nation in the Caribbean. His effect on his nation is best illustrated by soldiers pushing his remains trough Havana.

You are mistaken; before the revolution the only money in Cuba was from Americans visiting to play at casinos and hire prostitutes which many mothers and their daughters had to do due to poverty. CIA money kept the fiendish dictator, Bautista, in place and the island was a police state with mafia links. The revolution and Castro's leadership brought back dignity to the people and now the island boasts food and shelter for all as well as free education and health care from some of the world's finest doctors ... and all this despite an invasion by the CIA and their paid Cuban traitors who got a whipping and decades of a US embargo. It is little wonder that ordinary Cubans loved Fidel.

Yeah, especially those ordinary Cubans lucky enough to have jobs working in Cuba's European-owned hotels. Fidel's wonderful government negotiates their salaries with the foreign companies, the foreign companies pay the salaries to the government in Euros, the government extracts their "management fees," and passes the pittance left over on to the workers...in the form of nearly worthless Cuban pesos. What's not to love!

Unlike the USA, Cuba has no unemployment or lack of medical care and free education which is endemic among millions of Americans.

No unemployment at all? Are you sure?
I'm asking you that because it seems pretty impossible that all people have a job without any exception

Unemployment Rate in Cuba decreased to 2.40 percent in 2015 from 2.70 percent in 2014. Unemployment Rate in Cuba averaged 2.72 percent from 2000 until 2015, reaching an all time high of 5.40 percent in 2000 and a record low of 1.60 percent in 2008.
Cuba Unemployment Rate | 2000-2016 | Data | Chart | Calendar | Forecast
An unemployment rate of 3% or less is considered full employment.

 

[esthermoon]

It's a good result!
I didn't think they had such a little unemployment rate!
How did they do that? I almost know anything about that!

 

[AvgGuyIA]

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The comparison to Obama's election, his dictatorial style of ruling over us and how his useful idiots will praise him on his last days is absolutely uncanny.

Watch how they act around Jan 20'2017.

 

[Eloy]

It's a good result!
I didn't think they had such a little unemployment rate!
How did they do that? I almost know anything about that!

Cuba has a command economy with the state itself providing most jobs (75%) while 25% of the people are in self employment.