The Spectator- ‘The public sector is the illness’: Javier Milei on his first year in office
‘I work all day, practically… I get up at 6 a.m., I take a shower and at 7 a.m. I am already at my desk working. And I work all the way until 11 p.m. I enjoy my job. I enjoy cutting public spending. I love the chainsaw.’
Reporter: “Why do you call leftists ‘shit’?”
Milei: “Because they are shit! If you give them an inch, they will destroy you!”
holy friggin hannah l have NEVER seen it so clearly articulated by a national leader what the stakes are, the strategies, the motives, the evil nature of leftism.
oh gawd tq tq tq for the link tq tq tq Kate for having long provided the means to spread the message.
its all true, every godam leftist policy, measure, edict, my grade 10 history teacher describing how hitler did it, ‘slices of baloney’, incrementally, one slice at a time, more and more intrusions and irreversible policies and laws etc. the metaphor was ironically true because ‘baloney’ is slang for bullshit.
who is the infamous leftist spelled it out? the proven successful strategies including this incrementalism and all the lies? ah, tq google: Chomsky.
damn them.
well, the good news is lm retired AND have extensive knowledge of 60 years of leftism rot in Canaduh, they cant get me fired or ostracized or silenced THEY GOT NOTHING ON ME. and by gawd when l let go of this place and that puts 1/4 million in my wallet and LOTS of time on my hands l just might turn into a micro Elon.
whew. NEVER GIVE AN INCH NEVER YIELD ANY OF THAT HARD FOUGHT GROUND
“The state is a criminal organization that lives off a coercive source of income called taxes. In reality, it is a large scale criminal organization, worse than the common thief. Do the math: How many times does a common thief rob you in one year? The state steals from you every day, it steals from you all the time. Every time you spend something, the state is taking a part of that from you…”
-Javier Milei
God love and bless Milei, the DJT of South America.
Respectfully fc, you do a diservice to Milei. DJT’s balls are big, but Milei’s are even bigger. Assassinations and coups are national pastimes in Latin America. It is amazing that Milei hasn’t been bumped off yet.
If you’re saying that we need more leaders like Milei, I whole-heartedly agree with you.
What we really need is a critical mass of population that doesn’t need someone like Milei to remind them how things don’t work.
I wouldn’t expect to repair the damages of 100 years of socialism in 1 year. Milei has time still to make the changes in the next few years to bring Argentina up. If he uncouples the AR Peso next summer and there’s an expectation that the liberation of the country will continue then all will be well.
Canada, won’t be bringing sense to Canadians in the first year after the #Libranos are defeated. The rot here is as deep as it’s ever been in Argentina and I’d expect the Senate and SCOC to side with the #Libranos every step of the way.
https://www.samizdata.net/2024/12/has-javier-milei-really-made-a-horrible-mistake/#comments
The Peso was pegged to the U.S. dollar from 1991 to 2002. I worked in Argentina in 1995 and 1996. In Buenos Aires, people could buy a tie on monthly payments and pay for it over a year. A tie! The Peso was pegged to the U.S. dollar from 1991 to 2002.
This is interesting, but a little remote from us.
If Trump manages to successfully make similar moves quickly, Canadians will take notice!
Remote maybe, but relevant. As Conrad Black suggested a few weeks back, first Meloni in Italy, then Argentina, El Salvador, the US, soon to be Canada and in three years, the UK will have its best Conservative leader/government this side of the Iron Lady herself.
Conservative governments can build an economy over a period of years with sound policy.
“Lefttards” can destroy it all at 5 times the speed.
But both say “yes sir” to somebody.
Well said! Unfortunately without an upvote feature you’ll never know I said that.
We need alla unDORK to come in here and tell us how Milie is destroying Argentine with his policies.
No, We don’t! UnReal can trigger himself by himself, and leave the sane alone.
He has hair like me* … cause the ’70’s may be gone … but I never left them. And he doesn’t stutter … like I don’t. I tell it to you straight up! And if you don’t like it? That’s your prerogative … as mine is to ignore you from then forward.
* well … except my top is jussssst a bit thinner than his
A bit of free light cuts through the darkness of repressive socialism.
A man after my heart.
Canadians enjoy it when the government steals from them.
They’re always asking the government to Do Something.
And next year the government takes even more.
It’s worse that that, they borrow even more!!
Canadians love to be coddled by mommy and daddy government (sorry, was that too sexist? …too cis-normative? Tough!).
Canadians can’t stand being independent. It triggers and frightens them, because they don’t know how to stand on their own, and prefer everything handed to them without an ounce of effort or responsibility on their part… Like the immature children that they are… “I want… I want… I want… Whatdayamean I have to pay for it?”
They have yet to have woken up to realize that the world doesn’t function that way… at least not in the long term, but eventually, the chickens do come home to roost, and they will soon realize the heave price they will have to pay for their freebees.
4.4 million Canadians are employed by governments at various levels, then there’s crown corporations.
That’s a hell of a big voting block.
Don’t forget pretty much everyone who works in health care, and of course the “not-for-profit” sector which supposedly makes up 1/3 of the economy.
Biden commuted the sentences of over 1500 criminals, including Chinese spies.
In the USA (and Canada), its no longer just a matter of policies. The entire apparatus of state is riddled with subversives, from the political class to the judiciary to law enforcement, and much of the private sector.
What we need is a night of the long knives. We should do it before the left does, as it seems pretty obvious to me that they’re gonna do it.
1500 people who were charged with violating the covid rules, and 39 criminals.
“President Joe Biden is commuting the sentences of roughly 1,500 people who were released from prison and placed on home confinement during the coronavirus pandemic and is pardoning 39 Americans convicted of nonviolent crimes. It’s the largest single-day act of clemency in modern history.”
That’s from AP, but don’t worry, the right wing sites such as PJ Media say the same.
The only important one is his Son. I guess that makes it 40.
Spying is non-violent.
You seem to be an AllahS/UnMe/Jessica sock puppet.
https://nypost.com/2024/12/13/world-news/biden-pardons-high-ranking-chinese-spies/
the way it work ya w the violence is shifted to 2 or 3 or 4 individuals in the daisy chain. a mole rats out an undercover agent who is shot in their sleep.
biden commuted sentences of some very violence *causing* people.
Donny
PJM is about as rite wing as my LEFT testical.
Are you wilfully dense? Those that were released weren’t convicted of “violating the covid rules”, they were released from prison because they claimed they were at risk of catching covid in prison.
They include a woman who embezzled $60 million from a town government, a drug dealer who plead out on drug and firearms charges, Malcolm Hartzog who was sentenced to life imprisonment for drug charges, several scammers who engaged in tax fraud, Medicare fraud, and various other drug dealers.
And when they say “non-violent”, Al Capone would be covered by that as well, because his conviction was for a “non-violent offence”
Yiu know what I like? I like seeing the same folk who applaud Milei’s blunt practicality make excuses for Pee-Pee’s timidity and Blubber Douggie’s Liberal cowardice and waste.
Milei’s style wouldn’t work in nervous Little Canader, this nation has never gotten over being a supplier of warm bodies and furs to Britain.
Canadians are SO delicate some are comparing Polievre to Hitler,and worse, Trump!
Check out The Tyee for a look at real left-wing lunacy in this country.
Not too bright, are ya?
The fact that Canadians are timid means that the ruling elite can do what it likes, whether its like Trudeau or Milei.
You’re a bot.
It wouldn’t have worked in Argentina either before things there got much worse than they are in Canada. If we wait ’til it gets that bad we’ll get change that drastic.
You’re pretty well backing up my point about Canadian Conservatives, DM.
RE: < said Bowman, who has spoken out about how the unvaccinated were demonized as right-wing radicals. >
Regardless of the point the author was trying to make, I stopped reading when I got to this little gem:
“We do know that vaccinated people are far less likely to become critically ill, and there’s some growing indication they have less chance for transmission.”
Credibility gone < poof > in that one brief sentence, so it would have been a waste of time to continue reading.