Castro: Cuban model no longer works

IV: To my knowledge, the Cuban model was never working. But hey, maybe Castro was drinking some funky Kool-Aid for many, many decades and only now has detoxed...

Wonder how Mr. Obama will continue to sell the same failed model of wealth redistribution to the American people in the face of Castro's admission.

The reporter also said that Julia Sweig, a Cuba expert at the Council on Foreign Relations think-tank in Washington who accompanied him to Havana, believed Castro's words reflected an acknowledgement that "the state has too big a role in the economic life of the country".

Even Castro believes he made the government too big for Cuba's own good. Anyone with two grains of common sense upstairs would've seen that the decline of Cubans quality of life was directly correlatable to governmental involvement in the life of Cubans.

And Obama is hell-bent on bringing this failed policy model to Americans. Can you say Cuba--Part II?

And Obama is hell-bent on bringing this failed policy model to Americans. Can you say Cuba--Part II

Nothing you just said was true.

Justin: history has a tendency to repeat itself. Just hang around long enough, and you'll see it. The rest of us have already seen it. I've been to Cuba myself. People who have stayed do so because they know nothing better, or can't afford to get out.

But to have a statement like Castro's come out of as an admission of the defeat of a system he long defended? That's priceless in any era.

It failed in the former USSR. It failed in Cuba. If we continue to believe in leaders that insist on implementing these social failures, you will come to see how such a system will fail here, too. But hey, don't take my word for it--take historical data!

And if what I said is untrue, why do we suddenly have to be forced to pay insurance for the uninsured? Why are our taxes being hiked to the hilt and our children's/grandchildren's futures being bankrupted to bankroll useless policies (like the porkulus bill) that have yet to show any measurable success?

You can say what you want, Justin, but if it smells like crap and looks like crap, do you really need to taste to know what it is? I don't.