By John Lillpop ——Bio and Archives--September 14, 2010
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“Communist Cuba will shift hundreds of thousands of state employees to the private sector in 2011 as the government prunes more than 500,000 workers from its payroll. “The official trade union federation said on Monday that eventually more than a million jobs would be cut. “The plan represents the most important reform undertaken by President Raúl Castro since he took over from his brother Fidel in early 2008, and the biggest shift to private enterprise since all 58,000 small businesses were nationalised in 1968. “The massive layoff of 10 per cent of the state labour force is scheduled to begin in October and stretch through March. New licences for self-employment would be issued beginning in October , the sources said. Geographical limitations on self-employment and prohibitions on obtaining bank credits, doing business with state entities or hiring labour outside the family, would be eliminated.”Hmm. It would appear as though that tiny island is a veritable treasure cove of “Teaching Opportunities” for slow-learning Marxists in training to the north! The big question: Will America’s egocentric, narcissist and in-over-his-head president be able to swallow his self-absorption long enough to do what is best for America?
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John W. Lillpop is a recovering liberal. “Clean and sober” since 1992 when last he voted for a Democrat. For years, John lived in the San Francisco Bay Area, the very liberal sanctuary city which protects, rather than prosecutes, certain favored criminals. John escaped the Bay Area in May and now lives in Pine Grove California where conservative values are still in vogue.