Cuba is running short on toilet paper supplies for its people. Some interesting nuggets from the article:
"Cuba both imports toilet paper and produces its own, but does not currently
have enough raw materials to make it, he said."
"Cuba imports about 60 percent of its food."
Surely there must be some intrepid entrepreneurs who love to make toilet paper and work the rich Cuban farmland...oh wait...nevermind. Oh yeah, Communism.
"Despite the shortages, prices will be cut between 5 percent and 27 percent for
some food, drugs and personal hygiene products, officials said.
A visit to a store in Havana's Vedado neighborhood on Friday found that prices had
dropped for mayonnaise, barbecue sauce and canned squid."
Wouldn't easier access to mayonnaise, BBQ sauce and canned squid compound the the toilet paper problem?
"Cubans receive a subsidized food ration from the government each month that
they say meets their needs for about two weeks."
Well what good is simple math, anyway? Let's just assume two weeks of food is enough for a month.
"Cuba has long blamed the 47-year-old U.S. trade embargo against the island for
many of its economic problems."
Of course. No other country produces toilet paper?
"President Raul Castro told the National Assembly last week that the government
had cut its spending budget for the second time this year and has been
renegotiating its debt and payments with foreign providers.
Castro, who
replaced his ailing older brother Fidel Castro as president last year, also has
complained that Cuba's productivity is too low.
He has taken various
steps to boost output, including putting more state-owned land in private hands
and pushing for salaries to be based on productivity. "
Hopefully this is the beginning of an awakening, Raul. And for Obama as well. That is, if they actually had the good of their people in mind.
My point of highlighting this article is of course to show that liberals' utopian dreams of communism are a fraud. If only they could see this case study - and every single other Communist example - and come to a position of honesty about what is good for societies.
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"Cuba has long blamed the 47-year-old U.S. trade embargo against the island for
many of its economic problems."
That's a laugh! Not only are there other countries that produce TP, but completely overlook that their government form might have *something* to do with this downturn in the TP supply. (Not to mention if they had a different government, there would be no embargo at all.)
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