65 Replies to “Milei: Chainsaw 2.0”

  1. So far, so good. The grand experiment in Argentina is bearing fruit and despiter the pain, Milei’s government’s popularity ratings are hanging in there.

    Could become a template for others to follow. Tinkering around the edges doesn’t get the job done. The cancer has to be cut out by radical surgery.

  2. He’s nailing it. If it can be done in the private sector, then the government should not be involved in it – which is arguably everything, so it’s a good start.

    1. He’ll be nailing it when the capital controls are abolished and dollarization proceeds apace. Until then it’s precarious.

      1. I suspect he sees dollarization as an expedient measure to transition to PMs, Cryptos, or whatever evolves.

        1. Oh I should hope so. Go long on the USD at your peril, it’s a doomed currency. ‘Dollarization’ is kind of a misnomer at this point.

          2. The USG eventually. If someone comes up with a better currency ie China ends CC and implements monetarism (again!) then much sooner than ‘eventually’. Tallest Dwarf Syndrome is a precarious substitute for real strength.

    2. Canadians need to be de-programmed, as they want Big Brother to protect them from such things as drugs, guns, unlicensed boaters, and worst of all, themselves, with things like seat-belt and helmet laws.

      2. Would it be accurate to say that many Canadians want theit Governments to save them from the capitalist Americans? Swapping freedom for security is not a good stategy.

      3. As a teenager, during the summer months, I was a relief housekeeper at the University of Alberta in 1968 and 1969. This was before the wide spread use of seat belts, usually they were just the lap belts and there was no requirement to actually use them. I always hated working on Friday nights and any time on Saturday. The number of young men (remember I was 16 then 17 and the hormones were starting to “jump”) who were brought in either paralyzed or as quadrapelics (sp?) were numerous. All because they were drunk the night before, not wearing seat belts and were in a car accident. Some even died after going through the windshields head first. I am all for seat belt laws and for helmets for motorcycle riders.
        I do agree with the rest of the post. If it something which the private sector is capable of, then government should “get the hell out!”

        1. In 1939 car fatalities peaked at just under 30 per 100,000 population. It dropped to just over 10 in 2014 and up to just over 12 in 2023. In 1972 about 55,000 died in the US. In 2014 it got as low as 33,000 with a much higher population. I talked to a fireman not long ago and he said a lot of the current fatalities he squeegeed off the highway weren’t wearing seatbelts. The closest friend we knew who recently died in a car accident took her seatbelt off to sleep. Keep seatbelt laws. You are free to kill yourself but should not be free to sue others and frig up insurance rates when you don’t look after yourself.

        2. I am all for seat belt laws and for helmets for motorcycle riders.

          Keep seatbelt laws.

          No and no.

          1. “all for seat belt laws and helmets for motorcycle riders.” I’ll oppose seatbelt laws for motorcyclists, but I’ll keep using a helmet when I ride even if it’s not mandated by regulation. (Of course, insurers should be able to charge more for covering injury risks when customers put themselves at higher risk.)

    3. And to blend two stories here on SDA … the State of CA … which has unwittingly engineered a massive housing shortage by flooding the State with illegals and making housing unaffordable through crippling regulations, mandatory features, and shocking increases in Utility hookup fees … is now attempting to “fix” their mistakes by socially re-engineering single family neighborhood zoning.

      Do you want to REALLY fix the housing affordability problem in CA? Get the government the HELL OUT of housing. No, you don’t need to eliminate building codes. Basic Health, Life, and Safety of buildings should be looked after … but the rest of the global warming inspired regulations need to be stripped-away. Get government OUT of meddling with housing … and the Free Market will handle the problem … as Trump would say … Quickly.

      1. ” Get the government the HELL OUT of housing.”

        That means ending single family neighborhood zoning with upzoning, for a start.

        1. Yeah … take away everyone’s CHOICE as to what kind of neighborhood they want to live in. No one ever said a Free Market is devoid of rules. Everything in (civilized) life requires rules. Reasonable, minimum rules.

          1. “No one ever said a Free Market is devoid of rules.”

            It is certainly devoid of zoning. You want a SFH neighborhood? Go make a covenant.

            Re Canada: we are making some serious headway at least in BC and Alberta. The BC NDP under Eby has actually been shockingly good on this file.

          2. State Law overrides any and all CCNR’s of a new subdivision. And BTW … the State has changed those defacto CCNR’s called ZONING regulations AFTER the fact of those “covenants” that have been in place for 100 years. Gawd you’re not very bright, are you? And you call yourself a “scientist” … Puhleeze …

        2. NIMBYism really is the root of many problems, esp with housing. Mix it with radical environmentalism and what do you have? Canada! A country with abundant land, and paradoxically the highest housing prices.

      1. You’re welcome.
        IMHO, this should be required reading in schools, but of course, that’ll never happen with state-run schools.
        Letting the state educate the next generation is the ultimate conflict of interest, and is thoroughly exploited by the gov’t.
        Putting the elitist oligarchs in charge of education is one of the stupidest things we’ve ever done.

  4. That is exactly it, if this were done in Canada, 60% of the Federal government would vanish. At a minimum. At least 50% of Provincial governments would follow, and the private economy would quickly grow without the drag of regulation and bureaucracy.

    Then the records, information and physical infrastructure must be destroyed, and the earth salted so it can’t be replaced or grow back.

    1. I don’t know about salting the earth but selling off most of the productive crown land could reduce or eliminate public debt and be a major boost to the viability of the resource sector. A proportion could be used to buy-off every individual in fee simple ownership with indigenous DNA (proportionately) and eliminate apartheid, the Indian Act, the grift, and resource industry shakedown continuum of the grievance industry.

      1. There are companies that specialize in building private cities ex Rendeavor. Sell them crown land, let them build (without tariffs), and let immigration rip.

          1. Nice try at gaslighting everybody.
            Tell us all, which private sector companies are currently shooting down planes and sinking ship?
            IBM? Huawei? Gazprom? SNC Lavalin? Johnson&Johnson? Dow Corning? GE?
            Seems to me that the vast majority of planes shot down and ships sunk are done by governments, not the private sector.

        2. Unme,

          What a steaming pile.

          Immigration has been ripping right in front of us.

          What do those that did not immigrate or that pay for this rip(ping) get for this? (How about something concrete, not the nebulous crap you’re always pushing. Something real, tangible, moral and useful/usable.

          1. BillyMike,

            It’s unrestricted and unplanned immigration that’s the problem. If we had planned for a 1,000,000 immigrants, (i.e. scaled up the medical schools, zoning, etc.), and the immigrants were qualified (i.e. had the skills to transfer into a local trade or profession, plus the desire to become Canadian,) nobody would be talking about it much. The problem is that we have the narcissistic, virtue signalling, JV team at the helm, and they can’t believe actions have consequences since they were never held to account for their actions.

            A lot of the internal and external problems we are having right now are do to “the boys in short pants” running the show. Until that changes, things will only get worse.

          2. “Immigration has been ripping right in front of us.”

            It’s not even matching the 5% of population that we set about 100 years ago.

            “It’s unrestricted and unplanned immigration that’s the problem. ”

            No it isn’t. No planning needed, the only qualification is that you come here to live in peace and not on pogey. Low skill labor needs to be abundant and cheap. Movers cost too much!

      2. You should think about salting, if not low level radioactive waste. Government is both parasitic and metastic, it grows into otherwise healthy parts of the public and infects it, then feeds. If not constantly on guard, it will begin it’s advance all over, especially with the new funds available from a thriving private economy.
        Caning would be useful. The first person in any government room who utters the word committee should be caned. Publicly.

        “Ministry for the caning of bureaucrats.” Thats a department I would even work for.

    2. If a libertarian style Canadian government simply made a list of areas they should be in and got rid of everything else then the government could probably reduce costs by 50-75%. Right now there seems to be no aspect of daily life that the federal government isn’t interfering in.

      Meanwhile, the government’s core responsibilities are deteriorating past the point of no return – military, borders and immigration, processing basic documents, the justice system, banking integrity, budget control/sound money management, getting rid of interprovicial trade barriers, international diplomacy, faithfully upholding the constitution and charter of rights and freedoms.

      Ottawa has its claws dug into areas clearly in provincial jurisdiction, those departments can all go. Plus CRTC, regional development agencies, most contractors and consultants, academic grants, corporate welfare, grants to charities and social activists, all non emergency foreign aid (exceptions for temporary help to a disaster zone). Get rid of funding to all international agencies like the UN, WHO, IPCC, etc. The list of non-essential spending to cut would be massive.

        1. Many years ago I saw a list on a blog that had all of the federal crown corporations and government departments. It’s crazy how Canadians are over-regulated and overtaxed by our big national government. The government in Ottawa is basically a massive employment agency that doles out our tax money to their friends, family, political insiders, foreign governments and shady corporations.

      2. I can see a need for a much diminished CRTC, for frequency spectrum allocation and enforcement. But that’s it.

        1. You don’t think a consortium of telecom companies could allocate the spectrum themselves?

          1. No. It’s crucial that the military frequency bands remain isolated (and encrypted). It’s actually part of a broadly-accepted international treaty. But that’s the only function the CRTC should have.

  5. Who would ask for anything more?

    Bottom line is clearly defined by Milei government – is this government agency performing a function that can not be done by the private sector? If agency is performing a vital function only government can do it stays but If not then government agency is eliminated. Hopefully, Milei’s influence spreads far and wide.

    1. Auto licensing and the keeping of the peace (aka law enforcement and the courts) could be done in the private sector.

      1. I’d start my own army, kill all the private security, burn down their courts then set up my own. I’d then charge everyone protection money and kill anyone who refused to pay. It would be so easy to do with no one to stop me.

        1. Fortunately, the security and arbitration companies that the people hire would have some troops to blow your head off.
          Of course, you, being a statist stooge, would call them protection racketeers, basically because people would have a choice instead of people not having a choice with the one-size fits all setup we are currently suffering under.

          Read this:
          http://www.daviddfriedman.com/The_Machinery_of_Freedom_.pdf

          1. Indeed. What does he do when he comes up against the unexpected private army of Shackles Rustyford?

      2. “Auto licensing and the keeping of the peace (aka law enforcement and the courts) could be done in the private sector.”
        .

        .
        Are you crazy???
        There are more than a million stories out there about police in small jurisdictions in the United States seizing peoples property, whether it’s cars or homes or other things, under the cover of law.

        Can you imagine what a for-profit policing Enterprise would do to earn money?

        1. More gaslighting,
          … because private security companies are well known for seizing assets, right?
          Good for business, brings more customers, etc.
          “I like to hire security and arbitration outfits that take my stuff!” LMFAO!!!
          Again, its only public sector forces doing this, not private sector.

          I’m shocked but not surprised to see socialist/anti-capitalists gaslighting folk here.

        2. A real substantive change will require some seemingly drastic measures.

          CAF (Civil asset forfeiture) must be extremely limited and difficult. Make stealing illegal, make defending your property, family and self legal, simply for starters.

          Don’t bother telling me the Canadian public won’t go for it. They have allowed the most ruinous crap for 9 years and more.

  6. Children of government in canada would lose their minds if anyone tried to save the country in this way, bankruptcy, hunger, poverty, and blatant human dignity abuses are needed on a scale that even the CBC won’t be able to ignore before little canadians would allow sacred cows to be gored.

  7. How’s that old saying go?

    “Sacred cows make the best hamburger, but the meat can be a little hard to swallow.”

  9. Every once in a while, a snowstorm blasts through D.C. and the order goes out for all “non-essential employees” to stay home. In years past, as I recall it, about 90% of government employees stay home.

    All Elon needs to do is gin up some cockamamie emergency and declare that all non-essential employees should stay home. Leave it up to the employees to decide whether or not to come to work. Self-selection will do the job; anyone who stays home automatically gets fired.

    I’d be willing to bet whole departments would stay home and Elon’s job would be easier yet.

  10. Thanks jgriffthirteen.

    There are many great observations here
    It is not as difficult to imagine a life with far less control.

    But difficult to get there

  12. Milei’s address to the GLOZIS of the WEF.
    He really let them have it.

    Argentina President Javier Milei gives special address at 2025 World Economic Forum FULL SPEECH
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATNbGD37Dz0

    Surprisingly, they let him finish.
    Many of them probably agree with him, they just don’t wanna rock the boat.

  13. This is exactly what the average Canadian will have trouble conceiving. When you talk to a Canadian about legalizing prostitution, they go into a checklist of how the government would tax, regulate and run a prostitution system. They can’t get imagine anything is not the governments business.

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