From MSNBC:

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More than 85 percent of the Cuban labor force, or over 5 million people, worked for the state at the close of 2009, according to the government.

"Our state cannot and should not continue maintaining companies, productive entities, services and budgeted sectors with bloated payrolls (and) losses that hurt the economy," the statement said.

"Job options will be increased and broadened with new forms of non-state employment, among them leasing land, cooperatives and self-employment, absorbing hundreds of thousands of workers in the coming years," it said.
And this, from Raul Castro:

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We have to erase forever the notion that Cuba is the only country in the world in which people can live without working.
Meanwhile, here in the good old U.S. of A., government employment is growing at the federal state, and local levels, while the private sector continues to shrink. Pretty soon, we'll be another "worker's paradise." And those bourgeois Cubans will be thriving.

Onward and upward,
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