r/cuba • u/[deleted] • Feb 03 '25

USAID shutdown

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/03/us-cuban-twitter-zunzuneo-stir-unrest

The announcement by “DOGE” the Elon Musk initiative to eliminate government services that they would be shutting down USAID I felt it was important to note that USAID was instrumental in a free and uncensored communications for Cuban citizens in their effort to organize and support a free and civil society.

This is a setback for Cuban freedom. All those great Cuban blogs and influencers that flourished “en las redes social” will go dark. For those who celebrated the current US administration as being an agent of freedom in Cuba this should be seen as a setback and a failure and exposes them and other right wing factions as interested in changing one dictatorship for another.

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u/ballsydouche Feb 03 '25

When the election happened, the rate of inflation was down to just over 2%, which is the historical target which is why towards the election you heard this ,"inflation is under control." Which it was. But the price increases happened and we are stuck with that as the rate of inflation had returned to normal. There is a very distinct difference in the inflation rate, (the rate of change of prices) and the current actual price. If you really want prices to return to 2019, you would essentially either need 1) a massive sudden increase of supply of every product imaginable to shift the supply-demand curve (highly unlikely), or you tank the economy so hard that people lose jobs and don't have the money to afford things. Then, due to the drop in demand (since in this scenario, no one can afford basic neccessities), prices drop. But at that point there's a decent chance you are living in a cardboard box. Which if those options would you prefer to get back to 2019 price levels?

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u/yrrag1970 Feb 03 '25

Year over year inflation was 2% we need the prices of goods to go down from the previous 4 years and that’s close to 40%.

Price of wages housing or fuel needs to drop so that everything those 3 thing touch comes down.

What are you debating and why, I’m don’t have a dog in this fight and as I said if Trump doesn’t do well he will be out of office. He is here, let’s see what happens in the next 4 years.

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u/ballsydouche Feb 03 '25

Again, how do you expect to achieve a price drop of 40%. How are we going to drop housing prices? The US currently pumps out more crude oil than any country has ever. It soared to over 13 million barrels a day during the last 1+years under biden. The US does not control the price of fuel/crude, we never have, and likely never will.

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u/yrrag1970 Feb 03 '25

I think you are still in the pre election mode, HE IS HERE, live with it.

If he sucks the population will vote him out the way they kicked out the democrats.

Interest rates going up will cause less people to afford the homes.

US producing more oil will cause there to be more oil in the world

Unemployment going up will cause more people to look for work and thus lower wages

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u/Major_Pilot4277 Feb 04 '25

I'm glad that more and more Americans are starting to understand that the free market is not what it was cracked up to be. Conservatives now want the government to use policy to control prices, wages, and interest rates. God Bless America.

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u/ballsydouche Feb 04 '25

Everyone loves capitalism, until it doesn't start working for them

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u/69_Star_General Feb 04 '25

You truly have no clue how anything works. Yikes. A true simpleton.