Cuban president: More private enterprise will be allowed

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

Source: CNN

Havana, Cuba (CNN) -- Cuban President Raul Castro said Sunday that his government would allow more private businesses and make it easier for those businesses to hire workers, as the socialist economy struggles to get back on its feet and shed up to one million redundant state jobs.

The government "agreed to broaden the exercise of self employment and its use as another alternative for the employment of those excess workers," Castro said during a biannual session of the National Assembly.

He went on to say that the government would eliminate "numerous" prohibitions to the granting of licenses for private businesses and to the sales of some products, as well as "make the contracting of a work force more flexible."

In exchange, those businesses will pay taxes on income and sales, and pay contributions for employees, he said.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/08/01/cuba.president.economy/index.html?eref=mrss_igoogle_cnn

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If they follow through, this is a good thing.

[Judi Lynn]

1. Would be interesting. They've alway believed they were in a state of becoming, anyway.

They've been bumping off each of the hideous handicaps they had one by one, starting with the biggest problems, working toward the top.

Thanks, recommending.

[unkachuck]

2. I'm worried....

....reform will allow the state sector to shirk it's responsibilities to it's employees, become less innovative when they should be striving to become more innovative and worst of all, allow the state and private sectors in the future to jump conveniently in bed with US corporate interests....

"Earlier this year, Castro said that more than one million state jobs, out of a total of 5.1 million, could be redundant."

....as I see it, the primary responsibility of ANY economic system IS to provide adequate sustenance to all it's people in a self-sustaining way....if you let the capitalist camels nose under your tent, you'll wake up tomorrow morning knee-deep in camel dung with empty pockets....

....I wonder what Fidel has to say?

[Judi Lynn]

3. It wouldn't be good, I'm sure! He has been overridden other times, as when, years ago,

he was deeply opposed to Cuba's acceptance of the dollar within Cuba, since, at the time, Cuban "exiles" from the States were visiting relatives, friends, etc., and they also were sending buckets of money home to their loved ones who stayed behind, as they do throughout the Americas. The National Assembly listened to what he had to say and went right ahead and voted for the switch.

That decision was overturned years after they started using it, as it created far more problems than they anticpated, and the former President looked very astute all over again.

Hi, there, unkachuck. Good to see you. :hi: