Unproductiveness is decades-old problem, judging from Castro’s recycled speeches
November 11th, 2009 by Renato Perez - filed under Cuban Colada, Feeds, Miami Herald.
Excerpt from a speech by Fidel Castro, Dec. 7, 1970, published Wednesday atop Page One of the daily Granma. For context, read our Nov. 10 blog item, "Too many brains…" "Productivity has practically been forgotten, and unproductiveness is the abyss that threatens to swallow the nation's human resources and riches. [...] …the workers must become aware of this problem. These are obligations that cannot be sidestepped, they are realities that cannot be ignored.
"We still have enormous resources with the productivity that can be achieved [...] with very little or no additional effort, by clearing some bottlenecks, with better organization, with better use of the workday, with more discipline, with some rationality, with some common sense…"
(ABOVE: Castro in a 1970 photo.)
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