Life in the workers paradise - Cuba running out of toilet paper
From
Yahoo News/Reuters:
Cash-strapped Cuba says toilet paper running short
Cuba, in the grip of a serious economic crisis, is running short of toilet paper and may not get sufficient supplies until the end of the year, officials with state-run companies said on Friday.
Officials said they were lowering the prices of 24 basic goods to help Cubans get through the difficulties provoked in part by the global financial crisis and three destructive hurricanes that struck the island last year.
Cuba's financial reserves have been depleted by increased spending for imports and reduced export income, which has forced the communist-led government to take extraordinary measures to keep the economy afloat.
"The corporation has taken all the steps so that at the end of the year there will be an important importation of toilet paper," an official with state conglomerate Cimex said on state-run Radio Rebelde.
Cuba has financial problems because their nation is run by idiots who still think that Communism is a good form of government. This is not how to treat your citizens and the return of capitalism cannot come soon enough for these poor people.
Posted by DaveH at August 7, 2009 9:31 PM