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Jobless in Cuba? Communism faces the unthinkable

By Alliance Alert

Associated Press: "President Raul Castro has startled the nation lately by saying about one in five Cuban workers may be redundant. At the work site on Obispo street, those numbers run in reverse. It's a common sight in communist Cuba. Here, nearly everyone works for the state and official unemployment is minuscule, but pay is so low that Cubans like to joke that 'the state pretends to pay us and we pretend to work.' Now, facing a severe budget deficit, the government has hinted at restructuring or trimming its bloated work force."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on July 19, 2010 (boomark / email).