Cuba: Economy Minister Announces Worsening Financial Crisis

[sparebulb]

Then why did Castro have a surgeon flown in from Spain when he was sick? What do Cuban doctors make--20 dollars a week?




Not according to this 2015 source:

Cuba 79.38
U.S. 79.68
https://www.infoplease.com/world/health-and-social-statistics/life-expectancy-countries-0






It's cheap as in junky, at least from what I've seen.

NCL, how dare you attack Zippy with mere facts.

Maybe you would be more convincing if you put your "facts" in a spreadsheet or a bar graph with colored jagged lines and arrows.

A graph like this would convince people more than confusing facts.

 

[agitator]

Cuba is a 3rd world $#@!hole. The only way they get by is by countries propping them up. The Soviets or Russians or whatever the $#@! gave up on them. Venezuela was aiding them for awhile but they have their own problems. They're trying to open up things now like the Chicoms.

The only reason they have a $#@!load of doctors is because they're trying to make a point about socialized medicine. They can't get equipment. What they do get is substandard.

People can go in and out of the country now but it's not like a lot of people can even afford to leave. It's that bad, the wages.

The mechanics sit around all day and work on a couple of cars to try to get them running. That's if they can get the parts. Which have to come from other pieces of $#@!. A train might be screwed up for a day or more. They have to get a mechanic to fix that.

On the plus side, the people are literate, but they can't do much with it. Lots of people are simple are they learn to get by. They're fatalistic that way. They will smile a lot and take things in stride. They smile even though their whole day was $#@!. Some are more family oriented, but urbanization has taken a lot of that way. A lot of the girls are cute and very sexy.

They send many of their medical staff abroad to raise money for the Cuban economy. The staff goes to third world countries where they are for the most part more competent than the local medical staff. But the Cubans are still not nearly as highly trained as first world medical professionals.

 

[Chester Copperpot]

No. Actually the United States is nothing like Cuba. Having taxation is not remotely the same thing as getting paid $20 a month by the government (which is the average monthly wage of someone in Cuba who doesn't get tips.)

If we the people decide we own our own labor then we will get thrown in jail eventually. I know its not the same thing as cuba.. just a kindler gentler version.

 

[LibForestPaul]

And when the communists took over their economy tanked and never recovered, the fact that they didn't have a recession in nearly a quarter century is caused by the fact that they had nearly nothing to lose, they are now beginning to lose even that.

Yeah, Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador, their all doing awesome.