I'm sure NJ saw this headline in the NYT and skipped right past it..... Life inside the bubble.... But hey, Cuba has a good "safety net"............ lmfao...
Anyone know why Castro banned golf courses?
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/20/opinion/will-democracy-follow-capitalism-into-cuba.html?_r=1
For the average Cuban, access to Western goods is almost nonexistent, as my kids saw when I took them to a shabby “department store” that accepted only pesos, the local currency. Only low-quality, Cuban-made merchandise was on offer.
To be sure, Cuba provides a substantial safety net that both ameliorates the low salaries and helps those at the bottom cope with the country’s extreme poverty. But taking care of the needy isn’t incompatible with capitalism, as many European countries have demonstrated.
I wanted my children to see firsthand the ineffectiveness of socialism at creating prosperity. And I was eager for them to appreciate that the country’s salvation could be the very system that Fidel Castro decried: capitalism.
Anyone know why Castro banned golf courses?
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/20/opinion/will-democracy-follow-capitalism-into-cuba.html?_r=1
For the average Cuban, access to Western goods is almost nonexistent, as my kids saw when I took them to a shabby “department store” that accepted only pesos, the local currency. Only low-quality, Cuban-made merchandise was on offer.
To be sure, Cuba provides a substantial safety net that both ameliorates the low salaries and helps those at the bottom cope with the country’s extreme poverty. But taking care of the needy isn’t incompatible with capitalism, as many European countries have demonstrated.
I wanted my children to see firsthand the ineffectiveness of socialism at creating prosperity. And I was eager for them to appreciate that the country’s salvation could be the very system that Fidel Castro decried: capitalism.
