http://mungowitzend.blogspot.com/2010/09/salir-de-guatamala-y-llegar-en.html
I thought that Mike Munger said it pretty well:
Now one might think that the way to create jobs in the private sector would be to create a favorable institutional environment for a functioning private sector, and then let people with entrepreneurial talent enter, flourish, grow their businesses and hire employees.

But that's not the Castro brothers' way.

They are simply going to fire over 500,000 state employees to create those private sector jobs! It's a strange way to go about trying to double the amount of people working in the private sector.

And here's the kicker: "Cubans who decide to go into business for themselves will find a series of obstacles, including very high taxes, lack of access to credit and foreign exchange, bans on advertising, limits on the number of people they can hire, and a litany of small-print government regulations".

I guess that one way or another those poor people will become private sector workers or else!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39152912/ns/world_news-americas/
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704190704575489932181245938.html
"Layoffs amount to biggest shift to the private sector since the 1960s"

Now can we lift the friggin' embargo? Pretty please?

9/14/2010 10:11:05 AM

the embargo is the dumbest thing

9/14/2010 10:13:58 AM

They're not firing 500,000 state employees to create private sector jobs, although that's where they want those employees to go. They're firing them because they're fucking broke.

9/14/2010 3:58:14 PM

Also I heard there are lots of people on the Cuban state payroll who don't do shit lol

9/14/2010 4:57:07 PM

thats not unique to cuba

9/14/2010 5:39:06 PM

or state payrolls.

9/14/2010 5:45:19 PM

or people

9/14/2010 7:05:26 PM