Help!

The world’s financial problems are slowing reform in Cuba!

It is "unethical" to raise Cubans’ expectations that they might get a tiny bit of extra money from the state to encourage them to work harder/better.

Hmm … No.

It is unethical not to do so – to imprison all that Cuban energy and creativity to prop up a stupid unelected elite.

We know that communist Cuba and Polly Toynbee are indeed related, and not ‘by some chance’.

Read this classic about how socialism has been saving Clapham Park:

this vast estate, in much disrepair, had 7,300 residents but virtually no community life, voluntary or council-run..

… With a board led by residents and including councillors, it hired professionals and created a masterplan for rebuilding the estate. After a fractious vote, the estate was handed to a housing association – and this week, finally, the first digging began for the first new block; rebuilding will take at least 12 years. The years of consultations and obstructions have been painfully long.

However, myriad community projects now flourish. Sixty-eight community groups have had grants to get started with training schemes, lunch clubs, youth art, sport, debates, play schemes and a radio station…

How to get more great results like this? Simple!

… Another raid on oil companies could endow many estates.

Note the startling last sentence.

Never has Ayn Rand’s vision of the Looters and Moochers been so explicit:

The looters are those who confiscate others’ earnings "at the point of a gun" (figuratively speaking) —often because they are government officials, and thus their demands are backed by the threat of force. Some looters are following the policies of the government, such as the officials who confiscate one state’s seed grain to feed the starving citizens of another state; others are exploiting those policies, such as the railroad regulator who illegally sells the railroad’s supplies on the side. The common factor is that both use force to take property from the people who produced or earned it, and both are ultimately destructive.

The moochers are those who demand others’ earnings because they claim to be needy and unable to earn themselves. Even as they beg for their help, however, they curse the people who make that help possible, because they hate the talented for having the talent they don’t possess. Although the moochers seem benign at first glance, they are portrayed as more destructive than the looters—they destroy the productive through guilt and often motivate the "lawful" looting performed by governments…

Lo, the problems caused in Cuba and Clapham Park alike in putting right the damage caused by the collectivist creation of these ghastly messes in the first place.