[MtnClimber]

We need this in the USA so badly.

[normbal]

I had a roommate in college, a refugee from Argentina who married an American girl for a green card or something and he INSISTED Juan Peron was a RIGHT-WING fascist leader of a military JUNTA, yadda yadda.

Sounded like gobbledegook to me then as well as now, but I was premed, did all my poly-sci while earning an AA at Monterey Peninsula college a decade earlier while stationed at Ft. Ord in the 70’s, supported Prop 10, other reasonable government-restricting legislation, voted for Reagan, etc., but never considered myself a republican and absolutely despised Jimmy Carter..

So I’ve read about his takeover (Peron’s, not Carter’s), command/control economy, “the disappearing” of political enemies, social indoctrination/propaganda, etc., over the decades and if anything, Peron was a CLASSIC leftist/socialist.

Am I wrong?

[adorno]

According to Nancy Pelos and Hillary and the ‘ladies’ on The View and the left-wing media, Trump’s supporters (aka: republicans/conservative) comprise a cult.

But, the cult’s preferred economic system is capitalism/free-market. No other economic system works to lift everyone out of poverty and create wealth like capitalism. The Trump cult is what the world needs. The cult’s economic system is what the left has been trying to destroy with their progressive economic system of socialism/communism, though they pretend to be capitalists i their rhetoric. Democrats need to join ‘the cult’ and forget their idiotic politics.

[dfwgator]

Milei is providing the blueprint Trump needs to follow.

[ABStrauss]

Best thing that’s EVER happened to Argentina!

Keep it up!

[mjp]

Javier Milei, the current President of Argentina, is significantly influenced by Ayn Rand's ideas, although his adherence to her philosophy is not without contradictions.

Evidence of Influence

Public Statements and Actions:
Milei has publicly expressed admiration for Ayn Rand and her works. He has cited Rand's ideas in his speeches, particularly her views on individualism and the role of entrepreneurs versus state actors.

At the World Economic Forum, Milei's rhetoric echoed Rand's disdain for collectivism and government intervention, aligning with her philosophy of free markets and individualism.

Participation in Ayn Rand Events:
Milei participated in AynRandCon in Buenos Aires, where he discussed his views and their alignment with Rand's philosophy. This event highlighted both agreements and disagreements between Milei's positions and Rand's ideas

Public Perception and Media:
Media outlets and analysts have noted the influence of Rand on Milei. For instance, the Ayn Rand Institute and other commentators have discussed how Rand's ideas have shaped Milei's political and economic views.

[Sequoyah101]

Basically, a system, any system be it government or a business, can't afford such masses of non-productive overhead as the US and Argentina have now. Neither can business or even the government afford needless regulation standing in the way of necessary projects. Non-productive overhead needs to be kept to single digits, like 5% of all revenue. In 2022 our GDP was 22.5 trillon. In the same year local, state and federal spending were 9.9 trillion, 44% of our gdp. Argue all you want about how this money is repurposed in the economy but it all comes from people who earned it by exchange of labor and is taken from them and filtered for uses other than what they would normally do. Much of it is non-productive overhead.

I am reading an interesting book written by General George Kenny, "General Kenny Reports". It is amazingly fast paced and written in first person for the most part. Something like 800 pages and I managed only 129 yesterday evening. It has been used as a text for War College. The fineness of detail is astounding but engaging. Kenny was commander of allied air forces and Fifth Air Force in the SW Pacific in WWII of course. He worked for MacArthur but had an impressive freedom and span of control for being under the hand of such a martinet.

What Kenny found when he took command of a failed outfit was what I have said about organizations with too many people, too much non-productive overhead. He even found the mess of a version of DEI. Provide someone a position and he will make a job out of it. Without direction, boundaries and need he will build an empire of trouble. That is what Kenny found when he arrived in Brisbane, Australia in September 1942. That is what we have now. He also found a morass of regulation, paper work and pencil pushers. He dismantled it all. Quickly! He also dismantled the ridiculous version of DEI he found. Command and control are a wonderful thing! Too bad only a few are able to use it effectively when necessary and then go away.

[Spok]

It will be significant if Milei succeeds in undoing the damage caused by leftists if he can do it nonviolently. Many, some here on the FR, think it can only be accomplished by force. I sincerely hope he succeeds.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I didn't know he stopped here in Silicon Valley and gave a talk at Stanford University. He was in my backyard.

He spoke at the Hoover Institution at Stanford: “The Market Is Ourselves”.
Argentine President Milei Explains His Approach to Freedom at Hoover

Stop viewing every inconvenience discovered in the economy as a market failure needing government intervention, Argentine president Javier Milei told a crowd at the Hoover Institution on Wednesday, May 29, 2024.

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His appearance was organized by Hoover in conjunction with the Stanford Graduate School of Business through its Classical Liberalism Initiative.

[SauronOfMordor]

The socialist programs stayed in place because SOME people were benefiting, and they supported the old regime, and are now enemies of Milei.

He needs to watch his personal security.

[EBH]

Chaos outside Congress as anti-omnibus protest turns violent (watching Argentina)
Argentina Times ^ | 6/14/24
Posted on 6/14/2024, 5:50:08 AM by EBH

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4244238/posts

Hundreds of security forces fired tear gas and water cannons at rioting demonstrators outside the National Congress building in Buenos Aires on Wednesday as protesters called on senators to reject President Javier Milei’s sweeping reform plan.

Demonstrators who were protesting against the proposed reforms, which are being debated by lawmakers in the lower house, were dealt with aggressively by riot police and Border Guard officers.

As the protest turned ugly, two cars were set alight by what appeared to be protesters.

Police later said that at least 18 people, 16 men and two women, had been arrested amid the disturbances. At least three police officers were injured.

“Among those arrested is a 41-year-old man who was in possession of a grenade which is being analysed by specialised personnel. A woman was also arrested for being responsible for setting fire to government bicycles,” said the City Police.

Scuffles first broke out when those rallying tried to bypass a system of fences set up between them and Congress. Demonstrators lobbed stones at officers who pepper-sprayed them in response.

Observers and opposition MPs said dozens of demonstrators and a small group of lawmakers received medical attention. Journalists were also reported to have been injured.

In a fiercely worded statement, Milei’s Office slammed the “terrorist groups” behind the violence and accused protesters of seeking to carry out a “coup d’état.”

“The Office of the President congratulates the Security Forces for their excellent actions in repressing the terrorist groups that with sticks, stones and even grenades, attempted to perpetrate a coup d’état, attacking the normal functioning of the Congress,” read a brief statement released on social media.

[griffin]

Hmmm...will need to buy his book.

[griffin]

Thanks for the great post!

[griffin]

I’m liking this guy. Been too busy lately to take much notice of him. But he seems he might be just what the doctor ordered to counter Saul Alinsky garbage.

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From “https://mises.org/power-market/economics-javier-milei“

“If anyone doubts Milei´s credentials, the chapter is a scathing critique of neoclassical growth theory. It also offers a full-blown Rothbardian alternative. Mises´s work on interventionism and Hayek´s knowledge problem form the basis of his analysis.

Speaking of neoclassical economic analysis, Milei writes:

Note that whenever situations that do not match the mathematical structure arise, they are considered “market failures”, and that is where the government appears to correct those failures. However, to successfully solve this problem, it is assumed that the government knows the utility function of all individuals (preferences) for the past, the present, the future, the time preference rate and knows the state of the current technology and all future enhancements, along with their respective amortization rates. In short, to solve the problem in question, the government should be able to master a significant amount of information that, by definition, individuals themselves ignore or are not able to handle, which exposes that the idea of the welfare state acting on the market to correct failures is a contradiction.

Furthermore, Milei concludes that:

when it is made clear that the correction of market failures by the government as proposed in the neoclassical paradigm is conceptually invalid, taking into consideration that the only ones who can internalize those effects are individuals, once the artificial separation of decision-making processes is eliminated, there will no longer be any reason for government intervention, which will not only stop the socialist advance but will also allow us to counterattack.