Dear Cuban People:
This is the Cuban Government. Please be advised that everything in this country belongs to us. We will provide you with free education, free medical care and a ration of age appropriate food to allow you to survive. In addition, you will be paid the equivalent of $20 a month, and we will subsidize most of your needs, to the best of our ability. By the way, a gallon of paint will cost about 30 percent of your monthly salary, and heaven forbid you have to change out a broken door or window; it will cost you about 400 percent of your take home pay.
If you are motivated to be a doctor or a scientist, we will increase your pay to $60 a month. If you become a waiter or taxi driver,, you can make more money than a heart surgeon. We wonder why no one is motivated to work hard. Any ideas?
We are really worried about the brain drain. We can’t understand why our best and brightest head to the golden shores of Miami.
One last thing — if you say anything against us, we will lock you up and throw away the key. The select few that help us run the country are free to thrive on corruption and pad their pockets, We will ensure that the bureaucratic jungle is a quagmire.
We really do love you. Isn’t socialism a beautiful thing?
About Hemant Rustogi
If people would only recognize that nothing is free. There is a price for that “free” thing. To give one, the ability, the desire and the opportunity to be the best he/she can, is the best thing so very powerful and life changing. People thrive when they do the work, and make the progress! They decay when it is done for them.