Cuba Now More Capitalist Than USA
While the United States, under local, state and federal leadership that could collectively be described as Bloomschwartzenbama, can't seem to stop the growth of government employment, the Castro Brothers—who directly employ most of Cuba's population—plan to lay off half a million government employees by March and expand the issuing of "licenses for self-employment." From MSNBC:
More than 85 percent of the Cuban labor force, or over 5 million people, worked for the state at the close of 2009, according to the government.
"Our state cannot and should not continue maintaining companies, productive entities, services and budgeted sectors with bloated payrolls (and) losses that hurt the economy," the statement said.
"Job options will be increased and broadened with new forms of non-state employment, among them leasing land, cooperatives and self-employment, absorbing hundreds of thousands of workers in the coming years," it said.
Fraternal puppet Raul Castro asserts, "We have to erase forever the notion that Cuba is the only country in the world in which people can live without working."
Another recent liberalization in the workers' paradise.