Originally Posted by jpsartre12

Socialism doesn't work because there is no incentive to work hard to better one's individual lot. That's why collective farming in the USSR was a disaster, but private farming on 1/20th of the farmland was successful.

Originally Posted by enigma2

JP, I have read where the US is the only country where the people live in a capitalist society and the big corporations live in a socialist society! <g>

It's all to do with who gets the government handouts!

Originally Posted by danielpalos

Have you seen the movie, 'Metropolis', by Fritz Lang? I think it a good depiction of a version of capitalism that was made possible by the industrial revolution.

Originally Posted by jpsartre12

Where's laca? Bagging a few rays at the beach?

Originally Posted by laca

Everyone can see who is the bully but the bully can not see himself and that’s why he is a bully.


Russian Duma condemns Cuba embargo

From correspondents in Moscow
November 04, 2006 05:04am

Article from: Agence France-Presse

RUSSIAN lawmakers unanimously condemned a United States trade embargo against Cuba overnight as "a flagrant violation of human rights" and called for international help to end the blockade.

All 432 members present in the State Duma, Russia's lower house, voted in favour of the resolution which urged other world parliaments to join Moscow in condemning the sanctions and in exerting pressure on Washington.

Leading Cuban officials visiting Russia expressed their gratitude to Moscow for adopting the resolution.

"I am particularly grateful for this resolution that condemns the unacceptable and illegal trade embargo on Cuba by the United States," Ricardo Alarcon, chairman of the Cuban National Assembly (parliament), told the Duma.

The overnight resolution is similar to previous ones adopted over a decade ago which likewise condemn the US embargo imposed in 1962 after Cuban leader Fidel Castro defeated an unsuccessful CIA-backed invasion.

The trade blockade has been steadily tightened under US President George W. Bush's two terms despite overwhelming calls in the United Nations to end the sanctions.

"I thank you in the name of all Cuban people, victims of political genocide," Cuba's Ambassador to Russia, Jorge Martinez, said, reading Havana's official reaction to the Russian resolution.

"The progress of the Cuban people is a reality that no one would be able to dispute."

Castro, 80, communist Cuba's only leader for nearly five decades, handed power to his brother, Defence Minister Raul Castro, 75, before intestinal surgery in late July.

When questioned about the health of the ailing leader, Mr Alarcon said that Castro was recovering and was "in good spirits".

"He is resting a lot, but he is attentively following world events. I spoke to him last night," Mr Alarcon added.

Raul Castro welcomed Russia's Prime Minister Mikhail Fradov to Cuba in September, the first visit by a Russian leader in over 15 years and during which a series of mostly economic agreements were signed.

Since the collapse of the Soviet Bloc, economic relations between Russia and the island nation have been quite limited, in large part due to Havana's debt to Moscow, which some Russian analysts have put at US$26 billion.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,1011...0.html?from=rss

Originally Posted by danielpalos

As with anything else, "The greatest abuse of Scientific Management has come from applying the techniques without the philosophy behind them. It is obvious from Taylor's own observations that the above discussion would be misplaced in other workers. Taylor acknowledged the potential for abuse in his methods. "The knowledge obtained from accurate time study, for example, is a powerful implement, and can be used, in one case to promote harmony between workmen and the management, by gradually educating, training, and leading the workmen into new and better methods of doing the work, or in the other case, it may be used more or less as a club to drive the workmen into doing a larger day's work for approximately the same pay that they received in the past." [17]"

Source: http://www.quality.org/TQM-MSI/taylor.html

Originally Posted by Meridious

Laca is busy portraying himself as someone else here, most likely.

Originally Posted by enigma2

laca, a few people subscribing to this thread are convinced you are not Cuban. And to be honest I am also finding it extremely hard to believe you as well. Indeed, they think you are someone living in Sydney. I find this a lot easier to believe, as, although there are many delightful and pleasant people living in that city, most are of the rude and ignorant class.

So, I think your 'fun' at their expense has run its course!

Originally Posted by laca

Cuba is the best. my dear Disneyland friends when , with Mexico, we liberate you then we will educate you and everything will be fine for you.

Originally Posted by danielpalos

As with anything else, "The greatest abuse of Scientific Management has come from applying the techniques without the philosophy behind them. It is obvious from Taylor's own observations that the above discussion would be misplaced in other workers. Taylor acknowledged the potential for abuse in his methods. "The knowledge obtained from accurate time study, for example, is a powerful implement, and can be used, in one case to promote harmony between workmen and the management, by gradually educating, training, and leading the workmen into new and better methods of doing the work, or in the other case, it may be used more or less as a club to drive the workmen into doing a larger day's work for approximately the same pay that they received in the past." [17]"

Source: http://www.quality.org/TQM-MSI/taylor.html