Comments by "" (@shauncameron8390) on "Cuba faces worst economic crisis in decades" video.

  1. It's the Cuban government and its central planning model.
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  2. Due to incompetence and malice.
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  3. Why don't you ask the Cuban government?
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  4.  @grumpynold  Why can't workers start their own business if they supposedly produce wealth?
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  5. The Cuban government would have to let go of its monopoly of the economy.
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  6.  @fate8007  In your dreams, tankie!
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  7. Cuba, end the command economy.
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  8. They're not legally allowed to.
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  9. Why is it the US's job to help? Isn't Cuba self-reliant?
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  10. No. Cuban socialism running its natural course.
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  11. But they're not legally allowed to farm.
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  12. That's nothing compared to Cuba's blind addiction to socialism. Claiming self-reliant yet dependent on outside aid to keep its pathetic excuse of an economy afloat as Castro killed off the private sector and local industry.
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  13. Better question: what would happen if Cuba allowed private enterprise to operate and people to pursue their own path to wealth?
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  14. Miserably.
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  15.  @grumpynold  And yet they don't because they don't want the legal and financial responsibilities of owning the business that their bosses went out their own way to take on.
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  16.  @SmartRobot-wc2fb  And yet they absolutely didn't because they were content with just taking orders.
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  17. The only embargo going on in Cuba and Venezuela is that of the Cuban and Venezuelan government against their own citizens.
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  18. Nice rhyme!
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  19. Exactly.
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  20.  @JerryX1775  But in Cuba, people are not legally allowed to farm let alone produce their own food.
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  21. Yet a lot of Cubans would much rather trade places and put up with that than have their needs met by a repressive regime that treats them as little more than house pets.
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  22. LOL
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  23.  @renajforbesceoofmobay9814  No. Cuban government's fault.
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  24. Cuba hasn't been prosperous since Batista.
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  25. Kerala is successful, only because it's propped up by the rest of India.
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  26. The Cuban government controls all the food production.
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  27. The only consequential sanctions in effect is that of the Cuban government on citizens.
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  28.  @Jagueyes1  No. Try Cuban command economy.
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  29. @North Korea Is Best Korea Especially the Cuban government.
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  30.  @DeathDespairDestruction  Doesn't matter. The results are more or less the same.
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  31. It actually was better off under Batista.
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  32. They're not legally allowed to.
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  33. But no basic supplies.
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  34. <Unfortunately, they prefer letting their own people starve and do without essentials> No. That's the Cuban government.
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  35. It would be even more helpful if Cuba ditched socialism and got rid of the PCC.
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  36. No. Cuba made its bed. Let it lie in it.
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  37. The current President is Miguel Diaz-Canel. Raul resigned years ago.
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  38. End communism first.
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  39. Government-imposed poverty.
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  40. They're not legally allowed to work for themselves.
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  41. <because policymakers don’t like the form of government in Cuba.> So how did Yugoslavia under Tito manage to get US support?
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  42. No. This is all because of the Cuban government.
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  43.  @robertk617  Cuba survives on: Canadian tourism Venezuelan (free) oil US remittances Chinese and Russian aid loaning its doctors abroad keeping 90% of their salaries
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  44. Don't let the government have too much control over the food supply.
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  45. It's only fitting since Cuba was once a Soviet client/puppet state.
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  46. Cubans are not legally allowed to grow their own food.
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  47. Simple. Where is the money going to come from?
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  48. But communism is even more evil. So much for power to the workers.
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  49.  @MelissaThompson432  <We (the US) probably need to start learning how to do economic socialism> And end up like India post-independence? Perpetually regressing and dependent on outside aid?
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  50. Cuba Angola Mozambique Mongolia North Korea India Ethiopia (East) Germany Somalia
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  51. Florida is better off under Republican leadership than California currently is under Democrat leadership.
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  52.  @gregb6469  Pretty much.
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  53.  @genxx2724  Only to allow Cuba to be a hedonistic playground for everyone except Americans once the 90's rolled and its sugar-daddy USSR collapsed.
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  54. Soviet aid, Canadian tourism, US remittances, Venezuelan oil and trafficking doctors abroad.
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  55.  @jonathanhadley2555  But barely as Cuba is still a command economy.
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  56. Actually it's perpetuated by Havana. Self-reliant yet hardly produces anything of its own because the Cuban government doesn't allow entrepreneurship or people to work for themselves.
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  57. Cuba has no economy. All that free education yet al that's good for is servicing foreigners at best.
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  58. Cuba should reinstate private enterprise and let the people make an honest living.
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  59. LOL.
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  60. Often after seizing the means of production killing off and robbing the owners and producers in favor of political friends and the workers who are just not up to the task.
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  61. <but are there sanctions against the US?> No, because most of the rest of the world are dependent on the US and don't have the economic/political/military leverage to do such if they wanted to.
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