[conanbatt]

Granted, the phrase has some comedic exaggeration, but in our worldly experience, communism may have reduced some extreme inequality(emphasis on may, since the ruling class in communism is always pretty rich), but it did so by decimating the middle class.

For all the comparisons of Cuba and other capitalist countries i will make one argument that encompasses all the other: "See how people vote with their feet". How many people move TO cuba and how many people move out OF cuba.

That should be enough to measure the relative expectation and standard of living of Cuba and the US.