The slow, plodding, inefficient death of socialism stumbles along. Someone better tell the Dems that even Stone Age socialists know to abandon the scourge of so-called ‘progressive values.’ Progressive indeed–progressively downward.
Cuba to abandon salary equality
Cuba is to abolish its system of equal pay for all and allow workers and managers to earn performance bonuses, a senior official has announced.
Vice-Minister for Labour Carlos Mateu said the current system – in place since the communist revolution in 1959 – was no longer “convenient”.
He said wage differentiation should improve production and services…The minister pointed out that the current wage system sapped employees’ incentives to excel since everyone earned the same regardless of performance. “It’s harmful to give a worker less than he deserves, it’s also harmful to give him what he doesn’t deserve,” the newspaper article said.
Well, clang, clang, clang goes that trolley. Welcome to the real world, even if you are 49 years late.
France is trying, Germany’s trying, now Cuba’s trying to rid themselves of socialism and who’s OUR most popular candidate for leader of the free world? A socialist.
I’m tired of my fellow conservatives telling me Europe can’t do anything right. We’ve seen socialism fail over there and we’re acting now like we invented it and can’t wait to embrace it?
Wages tied to production? What a concept. Ya think it will catch on?
Pssstttt….don’t tell the Democraps. This idea will interfere with the entitlement system.
The Cubans may be 49 years too late, but the Dems will never catch on. The presidential candidate they just nominated is contemplating raising the capital gains tax “for purposes of fairness,” right after being informed that lower taxes have resulted in higher revenue. Obama and his ultra-liberal following are ideologues first; facts be damned!
There is an old joke from dirt-paid workers in the old Soviet Union that went something like: “We pretend to work, and the government pretends to pay us.” An absolute failure, yet the so-called “progressives” in this country want to try this and more. God help us this November.
I knew it was bad in Cuba, but I was ignorant of the ‘same wages for everyone’ stuff.
“…the current wage system sapped employees’ incentives to excel since everyone earned the same regardless of performance.”
Goodness gracious. That seems like something that even a little child could figure out.
How the hell did socialism get to be a popular idea among decent, halfway intelligent people in our country? Sad.