Just when you thought you had heard everything, along comes Reuters with this little story!! :
Cash-strapped Cuba says toilet paper running short
Cubans receive a subsidized food ration from the government each month that they say meets their needs for about two weeks.
President Raul Castro told the National Assembly last week that the government had cut its spending budget for the second time this year and has been renegotiating its debt and payments with foreign providers.
Cuba has long blamed the 47-year-old U.S. trade embargo against the island for many of its economic problems. It also said that last year’s hurricanes did $10 billion worth of damage that forced the government to spend heavily on imports of food and reconstruction products.
Castro, who replaced his ailing older brother Fidel Castro as president last year, also has complained that Cuba’s productivity is too low.
He has taken various steps to boost output, including putting more state-owned land in private hands and pushing for salaries to be based on productivity.
That’s the story but hey, do you not return to a time where Dinasours roamed the landscape if you run out of one of life’s essentials, TOILET PAPER!!!
So I’m guessing that it’s not that bad and this is a bit of bad publicity that will in turn generate more sales of newspaper that will in turn provide more paper ( at least of some sort!!) to families, so that they may IN TURN have ..........., well you get the jist of it. Now that’s clever marketing….
Ahh, after all that I see where the problem lies….