In his first act, newly sworn President of Argentina, Javier Milei, signs an executive order reducing the Argentine government from 21 Departments to 9. A major reduction of bureaucracy and overhead. Impressive.
Milei’s inauguration speech.
In his first act, newly sworn President of Argentina, Javier Milei, signs an executive order reducing the Argentine government from 21 Departments to 9. A major reduction of bureaucracy and overhead. Impressive.
Milei’s inauguration speech.
Geez. Imagine the fun he’d have with this!
https://www.canada.ca/en/government/dept.html
My fingers were sore from scrolling and scrolling down the page.
PP will have his work cut out for him. I’m just imagining a cabinet of 9 in Canada.
Somebody will have to do it here. Hopefully all it will take will be an election.
Bernier can do it here.
Otherwise it’s gonna be LibCons for ever serving the Elites.
Can he do that? Where would we be without the Department of Departmental Affairs or the Department of Redundancy Department? LOL
Sworn in without media, then a few official photos, and then the speech…
The front page here seems largely supportive,
“Today we end a long and sad era of decline and begin the long path of rebuilding our country,” he said in opening remarks, later saying his election marked a breaking point in Argentine history that was comparable to the fall of the Berlin Wall.
He went on to tell Argentines to brace for the impact of his economic shock policies. “The outgoing government has left us with hyperinflation and it’s our maximum priority to do everything possible to avoid such a catastrophe, which would leave poverty above 90% and destitution above 50%,” he said. “For that reason, there’s no alternative to austerity.”
“We’ve been living in stagflation for 15 years. This is the last bitter pill to swallow before we start with the reconstruction of Argentina.” Continuing to print money, he said, would put Argentina on a footing “with the darkness of the Venezuela of Chávez and Maduro.”
“God bless Argentines, and may the forces of heaven accompany us in this challenge,” he concluded. “It will be difficult, but we can do it. Long live freedom, dammit!” he shouted, punching the air.”
https://buenosairesherald.com/politics/javier-milei-is-now-president-of-argentina
I’m mildly surprised the globo/pedo elite allowed him to win. What, no voting machine contracts there? Chinese infiltration? A glitch in the matrix? Or is Argentina a bit player in their overall schemes? So many questions… I can only wish we had such a guy to fearlessly, aggressively, take on the woke bureaucratic monolith. Good luck to him and his country.
When I visited my daughter in December 2018 in Chile, I saw that there were very few black or Muslim people on the streets. When we stopped in Lima, Peru enroute, there were many Chinese restaurants and apparently there ware many Chinese and Japanese immigrants to Peru (came over in the 1980’s and 1990’s).
My impressions are that Chile (and by extension, most South American countries) are very “picky” about who they let into their countries. I could be wrong, as these are just “my impressions”.
Let us sees what happens in 24 hours.
While the cut of bureaucracy is an excellent start, it will take a monumental power to get rid of it.
Not to be a downer on the love for Milei but he promised to leave the Paris Climate Agreement calling it a hoax and a socialist plot and already he’s broken that promise. Hope that’s a one off.
The funniest part of the whole business was Zelensky’s showing up to the inauguration and making a big show of hugging Milei.
There to beg the new president of Argentina for asylum, I shouldn’t wonder.
Zelensky was there? Huh. How about that, eh?
Nothing is ever as it seems.
Seems Zelenski is going to visit the White House tomorrow if I’m not mistaken.
Jeez, running out of money again. $120 billion only goes so far, I guess.
I wonder how much of that $120 billion is in various hands that should not be?
Turd is likely in on it.
Game ON, Jamie MacMaster
Where to cut and why? All votes welcome!
1. I would start by amending the TRUDEAU 1 constitution, as Quebec never signed it, and everyone ignores this. As well, there are no “Dief the Chief” property rights. Also provisions allow for Trudeau 2 to add new rights, obviously, for newly-offended folks. The Charter of Rights and Freedoms needs a complete overhaul or even deletion.
After listening to the Charles III at COP28, plus watching the very bad behaviour of all of our recent female Gov Gen appointees, I have lost my taste for a constitutional monarchy, even though it had served us well before we grew up.
2. A next step would be downsizing any department veering into provincial responsibilities. Quebec has been a bit smarter on this file, grabbing back responsibilities that should never have been been managed from Ottawa. Does anyone believe that the gov’t in Ottawa can reduce local home costs, improve local health care, ship refugees from wherever to paid local hotels or create economic opportunities in distant provinces?
3. There should be a budget attached to the list, with all the consultant pay-outs. This indicates that fed employees are either bogged in paper or incompetent. Public-private stuff has to go too (trendy in the 1990’s). If the private sector does not want to do it alone, is the plan even viable or affordable? Also weigh the regulations on a scale – the more they have, the more need to be tossed.
4. If there has to be an ombudsman, I think this could be code for “the dep’t in question can not review conflict well” with its subjects (us).
5. Easy cuts: most social and economic development programs. Dept. of Youth? A whole dept for very well-educated women? Most can compete just fine, if they have the will (many do not) and mettle.
Opportunity agencies? (gov’t never created any real jobs except for more bureaucrats to go to meetings).
Argentina should be one of the richest countries in the world – but then, so should Canada.