Comments on: Cuba: A Capitalist State? http://themoderatevoice.com/48713/cuba-a-capitalist-state/ An Internet hub with domestic and international news, analysis, original reporting, and popular features from the left, center, indies, centrists, moderates, and right Wed, 30 May 2012 20:57:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Leonidas http://themoderatevoice.com/48713/cuba-a-capitalist-state/comment-page-1/#comment-220721 Leonidas Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:46:00 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/?p=48713#comment-220721 <blockquote> Well if Capitalist farming is the efficient utopia, then we should cease all Federal Farm Subsidies immediately and import from Cuba!</blockquote><br><br>Agree to a large degree, we subsidize agriculture far too much, I would like to see more importing from other countries, particularly African ones. Make no sense to me to send countries aid and then cut markets out from under them with subsidies. Unfortunately, Europeans also heavily subsidize agriculture and complicate the matter. Its one thing to give up market share to countries without subsidies and another to give up market share to countries that are. What I would like to see personally is punitive tariffs vs countries that are doing so and more free trade vs countries that are not, and only subsidize exports to markets where we are competing with the subsidized agricultural products of other nations.

Well if Capitalist farming is the efficient utopia, then we should cease all Federal Farm Subsidies immediately and import from Cuba!

Agree to a large degree, we subsidize agriculture far too much, I would like to see more importing from other countries, particularly African ones. Make no sense to me to send countries aid and then cut markets out from under them with subsidies. Unfortunately, Europeans also heavily subsidize agriculture and complicate the matter. Its one thing to give up market share to countries without subsidies and another to give up market share to countries that are. What I would like to see personally is punitive tariffs vs countries that are doing so and more free trade vs countries that are not, and only subsidize exports to markets where we are competing with the subsidized agricultural products of other nations.

]]> By: Leonidas http://themoderatevoice.com/48713/cuba-a-capitalist-state/comment-page-1/#comment-220720 Leonidas Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:39:42 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/?p=48713#comment-220720 <blockquote> Leonidas, did you mean to write, "... but they are beginning to face..."?</blockquote><br><br>Thanks for catching it Kathy and for fixing T-Steel.

Leonidas, did you mean to write, “… but they are beginning to face…”?

Thanks for catching it Kathy and for fixing T-Steel.

]]> By: DLS http://themoderatevoice.com/48713/cuba-a-capitalist-state/comment-page-1/#comment-220701 DLS Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:06:19 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/?p=48713#comment-220701 "The 'new socialist model' can be summed up in two words…… profit motive. What brought this on?"<br><br>The Chinese example? “The 'new socialist model' can be summed up in two words…… profit motive. What brought this on?”

The Chinese example?

]]> By: tidbits http://themoderatevoice.com/48713/cuba-a-capitalist-state/comment-page-1/#comment-220659 tidbits Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:20:23 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/?p=48713#comment-220659 Good post, Leo. Thank you. Good post, Leo. Thank you.

]]> By: max191 http://themoderatevoice.com/48713/cuba-a-capitalist-state/comment-page-1/#comment-220624 max191 Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:48:17 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/?p=48713#comment-220624 Loved to read your blog. I would like to suggest you that traffic show most people read blogs on Mondays. So it should encourage bloggers to write new write ups over the weekend primarily.<br>regards<br><a rel="dofollow" href="http://www.charcoalgrillsite.com" rel="nofollow">charcoal grill</a> Loved to read your blog. I would like to suggest you that traffic show most people read blogs on Mondays. So it should encourage bloggers to write new write ups over the weekend primarily.
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]]> By: GeorgeSorwell http://themoderatevoice.com/48713/cuba-a-capitalist-state/comment-page-1/#comment-220537 GeorgeSorwell Wed, 07 Oct 2009 01:58:28 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/?p=48713#comment-220537 Interesting commentary--nice work! Interesting commentary–nice work!

]]> By: kathykattenburg http://themoderatevoice.com/48713/cuba-a-capitalist-state/comment-page-1/#comment-220521 kathykattenburg Wed, 07 Oct 2009 01:14:57 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/?p=48713#comment-220521 Thanks, T. :-) Thanks, T. :-)

]]> By: Father_Time http://themoderatevoice.com/48713/cuba-a-capitalist-state/comment-page-1/#comment-220511 Father_Time Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:02:49 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/?p=48713#comment-220511 Well if Capitalist farming is the efficient utopia, then we should cease all Federal Farm Subsidies immediately and import from Cuba! Well if Capitalist farming is the efficient utopia, then we should cease all Federal Farm Subsidies immediately and import from Cuba!

]]> By: T-Steel http://themoderatevoice.com/48713/cuba-a-capitalist-state/comment-page-1/#comment-220506 T-Steel Tue, 06 Oct 2009 23:50:31 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/?p=48713#comment-220506 Good catch Kathy. That was my fault. Good catch Kathy. That was my fault.

]]> By: kathykattenburg http://themoderatevoice.com/48713/cuba-a-capitalist-state/comment-page-1/#comment-220502 kathykattenburg Tue, 06 Oct 2009 23:41:32 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/?p=48713#comment-220502 <i>Not likely, but they are begging to face at least the reality that the profit motive will help them to feed their people.</i><br><br>Leonidas, did you mean to write, "... but they are <b>beginning</b> to face..."? Not likely, but they are begging to face at least the reality that the profit motive will help them to feed their people.

Leonidas, did you mean to write, “… but they are beginning to face…”?

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