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Mr Milei came to office in 2023 after vowing to take a chainsaw to public spending. While on the campaign trail, he even brandished a chainsaw while making a speech to symbolise his determination to do so. He has since cut the cabinet in half, slashed 50,000 public jobs, suspended new public works contracts and ripped away fuel and transport subsidies .
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Buenos Aires rocked by clashes over President Milei reforms Lawmakers give initial approval to controversial reforms as protesters and police clash in the Argentine capital. www.bbc.
com Far from promising a raft of new laws as our Uniparty politicians tend to do, his belief is that most countries have too many laws, and that laws and regulations should be pruned away in a decluttering exercise every once in a while The far-right president scored his first political victory after six months in office, in a tense climate and against a backdrop of recession. The more than 200 articles approved on Thursday reform the State, deregulate the economy and the labor market, guarantee a highly advantageous regime for major investments, pave the way for the total or partial privatization of public companies Click to expand..
. Argentina's Milei wins Senate approval to deregulate the economy The far-right president scored his first political victory after six months in office, in a tense climate and against the backdrop of a recession. www.
lemonde.fr Not everybody is happy with the progress though. Soon protesters were hurling Molotov cocktails.
A journalist’s car was set alight. The government, prone to hyperbole, called the protests an attempted “coup”. Inside the Senate things were nearly as tense.
Some senators demanded the session stop due to the violence outside but were slapped down. Insults flew. “ Mentally ill” was the term Cristina López, an opposition senator, used to describe President Javier Milei; the combative libertarian economist, who recently shrieked out a set of rock songs to a packed stadium, calls himself “one of the two most important leaders in the world.
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. Javier Milei finally lugs key reforms through Argentina’s Senate Markets celebrated the two bills’ passing, after protesters took to the streets of Buenos Aires www.economist.
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Compared to What else in South America ? The Economist Magazine is a woke joke these days, 7 months in and has turned it around but clowns like Meehole saying he will milk every cent out of workers and go full term when 100% of people know he won't and nobody will call him a bare faced LIAR in 5 months, ? between the bridges said: The two things are not necessarily mutually exclusive...
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Particularly in this case. Privatising public companies..
.? That's nearly always a grift/theft, or a farce. Nearly everyone who objects to excessive legislation is a narcissist/sociopath.
Meanwhile Varadkar and the Greens have stated their objective is to grow bigger and bigger government. It's already much too big, far too pervasive, far too amplified through databases and many other types of technological and organisational machinery. The likes of Javier are the necessary reaction to that.
It's unlikely the government and its various organs will temper themselves alone. Governments are becoming like monsters, their growth and pervasiveness and intervention in social life everywhere you turn. between the bridges said: The two things are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
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.. Great Minds are sure to Madness near Allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide.
- Alexander Pope roc_ said: Meanwhile Varadkar and the Greens have stated their objective is to grow bigger and bigger government. It's already much too big, far too pervasive, far too amplified through databases and many other types of technological and organisational machinery. The likes of Javier are the necessary reaction to that.
It's unlikely the government and its various organs will temper themselves alone. Governments are becoming like monsters, their growth and pervasiveness and intervention in social life everywhere you turn. Click to expand.
.. It's a unique situation, Arg has borrowed up to the hilt and gone bankrupt several times, and then you have speculators buying the debt at a discount for profit (an option never allowed to the locals), then it starts all over.
Rinse and repeat. We should be grateful to have Milei doing now what we may have to do in 10 or 20 years. The basic reality is, if possible, don't depend on the state / taxpayer for the food on your table.
Gin Soaked said: Privatising public companies...
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. Not if the proceeds are put towards paying off national debt. The belief of many entrepreneurs is that govt.
should provide an environment for businesses to compete and thrive. But govt. should not be in the marketplace, competing or getting in the way.
A football match works best if there is only one referee, and he stays out of the players way. A game with 10 referees running around would be a bit rubbish. Gin Soaked said: Nearly everyone who objects to excessive legislation is a narcissist/sociopath.
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Nearly everyone who objects to excessive legislation is a businessman. The country doesn't seem to have been well run in generations. It's a cautionary tale of a country going from top of the table to very mid table economic performance.
I cannot see him succeeding, but from what I can see public spending needs to be brought under control, and he is determined to try. roc_ said: Meanwhile Varadkar and the Greens have stated their objective is to grow bigger and bigger government. It's already much too big, far too pervasive, far too amplified through databases and many other types of technological and organisational machinery.
The likes of Javier are the necessary reaction to that. It's unlikely the government and its various organs will temper themselves alone. Governments are becoming like monsters, their growth and pervasiveness and intervention in social life everywhere you turn.
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His hairstyle should be examined. It's bizarre and Trumpesque in my view. We’ll just have to see whether he has the stamina and fortitude to do the dull, difficult things every day to reform a seriously troubled economy.
between the bridges said: The two things are not necessarily mutually exclusive...
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The voice of experience. redneck said: His hairstyle should be examined. It's bizarre and Trumpesque in my view.
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A bit like Einstein's hairstyle? recedite said: A bit like Einstein's hairstyle? Click to expand...
People might say my hairstyle is bizarre too. Doing a good job by all accounts..
