• Submitted by: manso
• Business and Economy
• 03 / 24 / 2011

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By Rong Cheng on 03/23/2011. The official newspaper Granma said today that Cubans practiced a kind of “economy of subsistence,” divorced from reality, since it encourages the productive forces.

“Cubans are specialists in domestic numbers: some miracles to reach their wages, others entrust their accounts to a welcoming family remittances, and no shortage of crooks who live off the invention, but never work,” said the newspaper in a article entitled “The statutes of the Economy.”

The organ of the Communist Party of Cuba said that “sometimes we wanted to reap what we sow not before, eat what you do not produce.”

“If the economics had the Ten Commandments as the 10 ancient laws that the Bible offers its followers, many of us could be considered economic sinners … Some of violating the rules, others by incompetents, and many out of ignorance,” he added .

The newspaper urged to participate in the popular debate, which will begin on December 1, the program of basic rules that govern the updating of the socialist economic model contained in the Draft Guidelines for the Economic and Social Policy.

He noted that the “dissection” and discussion of the 291 draft guidelines is an exercise that begins to become “the first lesson of our massive and necessary economic literacy.”

According to Granma, Cuba update their economic model to be “socialist”, meaning it “more social equality, but less egalitarian, more workers control the means of production, more participation, more reorganization of forces productive, more preparation and economic expertise in their tables and the people. ”

“Hopefully the economy, such as baseball, one day become a kind of national sport, it is well known and practiced by many,” he said.

Source: www.favstocks.com/cubans-are-“subsistence-economy”-says-official-journal/2338588/