by Patricia Harrity, Expose News:
“Today I am here to tell you that the Western world is in danger, and it’s in danger because those who are supposed to defend the values of the West are co-opted by a vision of the world that inexorably leads to socialism, and thereby to poverty.” said the Argentinian President, Javier Milei, at Davos on the 17th January 2024, but is Javier Milei just another puppet working to rebuild trust in the World Economic Forum (WEF)?
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Economist Milei was introduced by the WEF founder, Klaus Schwab, as the “freely elected” president of Argentina, which these days is unusual, the Argentinian president went on to delineate the differences between Capitalism and Socialism and said he wanted “to plant the ideas of freedom in a forum that is contaminated by the 2030 socialist agenda.” and warned about collectivism to a room full of collectivists:
The Milei speech showed his ideology as being as anti-WEF, anti-socialism, and anti-authoritarian as it would be possible to be, therefore his philosophy has excited a lot of people who are possibly hoping that we, at last, have someone who is rubbing shoulders with the WEF “elite” but acting as a voice for the people.
Without being guilty of collectivism ourselves, or paranoid for that matter, we must not forget that Milei is a WEF graduate and is on the list of Schwabs Global Young Leaders, therefore we cannot help but have our suspicions about the man who, after all, has been welcomed at Davos.
“Better a Madman than a Theif”
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He is also a performer, much like Zelensky and although we are led to believe that Milei is mr Popular in Argentina, that is not strictly true.
The World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) called him a “Fascistic candidate” and said Milei is “a TV personality promoted by the corporate media whose choleric outbursts against the “left” and the working class have been directed for years at cultivating a social base for massive austerity and fascist reaction.”
Milei won the presidential election in Argenta with a margin of 55.69% defeating Peronist Sergio Massa, and according to the WSWS, Milei was able to exploit the hatred for the Peronists, who have ruled Argentina for most of the 40 years since the fall of the dictatorship and are falsely presented as the “left” by the media.
Milei presented himself as the only authentic opposition, and that his rhetoric fraudulently amalgamated as “parasites” and thieves the government and union bureaucracies, together with the working class and the 40 percent of Argentines who rely on social assistance” the WSWS argue, and say that “The pessimistic mood of many of those going to the polls was summed up by one Milei voter who told the media: “Mejor un loco que un ladrón,” better a madman than a thief.
Milei won because 6.5 million more voters, particularly from working-class areas in the largest cities, added their votes to Milei in the second round, while 8.3 million voters—many of whom traditionally would have backed Peronism—preferred to abstain and pay a fine in a country where voting is mandatory.
Javier Milei: New president tells Argentina ‘shock treatment’ looms
Following his election victory in November, the good old BBC called Milei “the far-right president and said “In a day of pomp and ceremony, the 53-year-old capped his extraordinary rise to power with a speech which left Argentines in no doubt he intends to embark on an economic path unlike any previous president.”
He said he would undo “decades of decadence” with deep spending cuts, designed to slash huge public debts and drive down inflation, which is now higher than 140%.
“The bottom line is that there is no alternative to austerity and there is no alternative to shock treatment,” Mr Milei said. “We know that in the short term the situation will worsen. But then we will see the fruits of our efforts.”
Milton Friedman – Shock Treatment
However, will the “shock treatment” result in a dire situation for the Argentinian people? In March 1975 Milton Friedman American economist and statistician (1912-2006) suggested “Shock Therapy” to Pinochet to help the Chilean economy which in 1974 was at 369%. Friedman’s free market fundamentalist measures included a sharp reduction in the rate of growth of the money supply and a drastic cut in government expenditure, among others.
