In Focus: Cuba to Lay Off 500K Government Workers; Should U.S. Do the Same?
DAVID ASMAN: Half a million government workers losing their jobs to help save the economy in Cuba. That’s right – Communist Cuba. If Cuba gets it, why don’t we? Should we also we cutting down the size of our bloated government? Hi everybody! I’m David Asman. Welcome to Forbes on Fox! Let’s go In Focus with publisher Rich Karlgaard, Lizzie MacDonald, Neil Weinberg, Quentin Hardy, Victoria Barret, and Stephane Fitch. Well Neil, I hate to copy Communist Cuba for anything, but they do seem to get lowering the government. NEIL WEINBERG: The problem Cuba has is the same problem the U.S. has: the government is smothering the private sector. You’ve got to get the government out of the way. Some Americans will say, well our federal government isn’t the problem; there’s only 2 million federal government employees. But if you look at it, there are 153,000 new civilian employees over the last year at a time when, obviously, unemployment in the private sector is going up, we’ve got a $1.2 trillion
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