Cuba Has Run Out of Sugar

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 He he...it's not funny...ha ha ha!  Sorry.  Olivia Murray at the American Thinker reports that Cuban communists fumble the economy so badly that they now import sugar - at $25 a pound One does wonder just how this can happen. But, as we have contended at this site for a long time now, communism doesn't work as advertised. It works fine for giving a lot of power and money to a few at the top, and immiserating everyone else though. I contned that the true purpose of any socialist scheme is a power grab, with a bunch of high minded words to make the pill go down easier for the suckers...er...the useful idiots.

For the better part of a century, Cuba has been under the control of communists and their ideologies, and the previously inconceivable has finally happened—they’ve run out of sugar. Like John Hinderaker at Powerline quipped, “This is like Libya running out of sand.”

Or…like Alabama running out of cotton.

Like Costa Rica running out of pineapples.

Like Russia running out of vodka.

Like Saudi Arabia running out of oil.

Like China running out of rice.

Like the Midwest running out of corn.

Like Afghanistan running out of opium.

How is this even possible? Do you really even have to do anything to get a tropical crop to grow on an island nation with a literal year-round growing season?

Oh, but you are one of those who say that true communism has never been tried. If it had been tried, communism works in theory? (See what I mean by "useful idiots"?)  Michael Malice would disagree.

Here’s what Russian-born Michael Malice recently said, via John Stossel:

‘One thing that drives me crazy,’ says Malice, ‘is when people say, ‘Communism works in theory.’ … Everything works in theory. Reality is how you determine how something works or not!’

I built a flying car, but it only flies...in theory.

I made an invisibility cloak, but it only hides a person...in theory.

I invented anti-gravity boots, but they only float...in theory.

I created a weight loss pill that makes the pounds just fly off a person, but it only works...in theory.

Stupid, right? Yes, and that’s exactly how asinine the “in theory” claim sounds.

As Hindraker points out in his article, sugar now costs Cubans $25 a pound in a place where it is grown, while in the United States in costs $1 a pound. Enough said.