Comments on: Cuba — Perhaps I Spoke Too Soon http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2008/05/05/cuba-perhaps-i-spoke-too-soon/ Life. Liberty. Property. Defending individual freedom and liberty, one post at a time. Wed, 22 May 2013 18:26:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: UCrawford http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2008/05/05/cuba-perhaps-i-spoke-too-soon/#comment-55720 UCrawford Tue, 06 May 2008 17:24:03 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2008/05/05/cuba-perhaps-i-spoke-too-soon/#comment-55720 Brad,

I wouldn’t worry too much about it. As with all government actions, the crackdown on illegal income will have its unintended consequences too. After all, how do you think the Cuban people have survived for as long as they have…by black marketeering and hidden income. Take that away and the Cuban people have a whole new incentive to break from the system because the government is incapable of supporting them without that underground economy.

Same thing was true in Russia with their agricultural sector in the bad old days of communism…the best production came either from the few private farms the Soviets allowed to exist or from black marketeers misappropriating state crops. Take those two away, and the country would have starved if they had to depend on the government to provide for them.

]]> By: cubanito http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2008/05/05/cuba-perhaps-i-spoke-too-soon/#comment-55719 cubanito Tue, 06 May 2008 14:41:24 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2008/05/05/cuba-perhaps-i-spoke-too-soon/#comment-55719 that cuban dissident you met in habana injected you with bad information –as usually they do to foreigh guys that dont understand what cuba is: that butter factory is illegal because factories are only legal for state or foreign, or mix state/foreing enterprises. sucks, we know, but thats the fact. if the guy made his money illegaly eventually will fall –again, sucks, we should get granted the right to do our own business, etc etc but thats the reality anyway. don’t pay attention to dissident comments too much, they are people that want to have some changes and some of them are right about it, but others usually distort reality to just get some funds out of naive foreigners :) they just say the words outsiders want to hear LOL! I dont think there is a state-run honey pot to catch and send good money pockets to cut sugar cane :) this story is very usual to hear here. And about what the outside news uses to compare: a cuban has $15 wage and the cells cost $100: that’s said because non of those reportes have never come here and do not understand what cuba is: almost **everyone** has from some way or another –illegal factories and business, legal factories and business, family pumping down money from outside, stealing, overworking, etc… any means– they have enough money to buy a cell. dont believe me? come here and see the loooooong lines to get one, but not only there, come and see the loooong lines to get a $1k bike!!! From where the money comes? Who knows exactly hehehehe!!!
btw, yes, im cuban, i live here

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