As some of you are aware Argentina has a new president, Javier Milei, who was overwhelmingly elected last month and who was sworn in on 12/10/23. MSM has described Milei as “far right,” as well as a libertarian economist. However, he was elected with a promise to do something to stop Argentina’s drastic inflation.
Not mentioned at all in my local “newspaper,” and only alluded to in the Washington Post is what Javier Milei did almost immediately after being sworn in.
However, the People’s Gazette ran a story headlined, “Argentina’s President Javier Milei reduces ministries from 18 to nine on first day in office. The sub-headline added, “President Milei immediately streamlined his government, consolidating federal ministries from 18 to nine on his first day in office.”
From BlazeMedia:
“Ministry of Tourism and Sports — out!” he said, tearing a ministry name tag off a whiteboard. “Ministry of Culture — out! Ministry of the Environment and Sustainable Development — out! Ministry of Women, Genders and Diversity — out! Ministry of Public Works — out, even if you resist!”
Milei also tore off the tags denoting the Ministries of Science, Technology, and Innovation; Labor, Employment, and Social Security; Education; Transportation; Health; and Social Development.
As elucidated in Jeff Childers’ C&C:
“So yesterday, as his first official act after being sworn in, Milei fulfilled one of his grandest campaign promises and chainsawed the size and expense of his country’s federal government. He told Argentinians that righting the economic ship would be painful for a while, but the government would share their pain.
In other words, Milei is pursuing a radical conservative scheme of deregulation and privatization. He will be opposed by every leftwing group in the world seeking to ensure it fails, so that Argentina won’t become some kind of example to the rest of the world.”
Hopefully after Trump gets sworn in in January, 2025, he will do something similar in terms of our bloated federal government.
12/13/23