Cuba considering capitalism?

Huh?


Seriously?

Now even Castro brother Raul is more conservative than Obama. Socialism isn't working in Cuba. So what is the only solution they can find will bring back their economy? Why, private ownership! Capitalism, my friends. It isn't just one option that works. It's the only option that works.
Capitalism is freedom to the powerless. Every human, in the depths of their marrow, has no greater desire than freedom. And when it's released, it thrives.

Even one of Havana's leading economists recently said Cuba's economy needed to be turned upside down -- "feet up." So taxi drivers got private licenses, farmers now have their own plots of land and government workers have to pack their own lunches.

Empowering people? Weird. How could that possibly be a success.

In a widely quoted August speech, Castro said Cuba was spending more than it made.

So...you need healthy producers to create wealthy before you can steal it and spread it around.

"Nobody, no individual nor country, can indefinitely spend more than she or he earns. Two plus two always adds up to four, never five," he said. "Within the conditions of our imperfect socialism, due to our own shortcomings, two plus two often adds up to three."

In other words, socialism fails every time it's tried.

In the 18 months since he took office, Castro restructured the nation's agricultural system to give idle land to farmers, hoping they would revive a deeply troubled state-run agricultural industry plagued by inefficiency. He also allowed taxi drivers to have private licenses; many were working illegally anyway.

Government run industry is inefficient? People, in order to survive, worked illegally? And here I thought socialism was utopia. Everyone was equal. Everyone had everything provided for them. For free.