I think Cuba is just wising up to what really keeps people from a revolution; commercialism.
I recently asked my (admittedly trashy and ignorant) neighbor why he thinks America is the land of the free. His response was something, that to be quite honest, I am not clever enough to have thought up in a million years.
"America is free because here I can buy any truck I want, any TV I want or eat out whenever I feel like. I can take my family to amusement parks, or to the movies and no one tries to stop me! No one here is telling me how to live my life!"
Sounds like Cuba is taking a page out of America's play book.
I don't care if their substandard housing is free; their medical is free (bring your own sheets though and look for your doctor driving cabs in the off hours); their education is free (all the way up to a PhD as long as you don't contradict the party doctrine)----these people are treading water!
IMHO the only positive to all this is that, hopefully, those in Florida will be able to somehow coordinate with refugees better and that perhaps we're seeing the dismantling of this tragically extreme socialist state.
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I think Cuba is just wising up to what really keeps people from a revolution; commercialism.
I recently asked my (admittedly trashy and ignorant) neighbor why he thinks America is the land of the free. His response was something, that to be quite honest, I am not clever enough to have thought up in a million years.
"America is free because here I can buy any truck I want, any TV I want or eat out whenever I feel like. I can take my family to amusement parks, or to the movies and no one tries to stop me! No one here is telling me how to live my life!"
Sounds like Cuba is taking a page out of America's play book.
What good is opening up these markets when the average wage is ~$10 a month and 93% of that goes to food?
(http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=41452)
I don't care if their substandard housing is free; their medical is free (bring your own sheets though and look for your doctor driving cabs in the off hours); their education is free (all the way up to a PhD as long as you don't contradict the party doctrine)----these people are treading water!
IMHO the only positive to all this is that, hopefully, those in Florida will be able to somehow coordinate with refugees better and that perhaps we're seeing the dismantling of this tragically extreme socialist state.