Posted on 06/14/2024 1:45:57 PM PDT by Twotone
Argentina’s Senate narrowly passed President Javier Milei’s sweeping economic reform bill, delivering a tentative legislative victory to the right-wing leader even as protesters clashed with riot police.
Lawmakers in Argentina’s upper house on Wednesday voted 37 to 36 to approve the bill after a marathon debate, with Vice President and head of the Senate Victoria Villarruel casting the deciding vote in favor of Milei’s economic measures.
The bill, which was initially backed by the lower house in April, will now be studied point by point before it is expected to be fully approved on Thursday.
The reform bill is a core tenet of Milei’s push to revive the country’s crisis-stricken economy. Among other issues, the bill seeks to privatize some of the country’s state entities, provide a generous incentive scheme for foreign investors and water down labor rights.
Photos published on Getty images showed anti-riot police officers deployed water cannons to disperse protesters and a car had been set ablaze during the demonstrations.
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I imagine the “protesters” fall into two camps:
(1) Those fat from the government dole and their dependents, and
(2) those paid by US funded NGO’s to protest.
“Leftist political parties and labor unions are bitterly opposed to Milei’s economic agenda.” so says the article.
Go Milei!
Collage students have been rioting since collages first were invented. You take a bunch of wealthy horny teens, group them together, make sure all their basic needs are met, give them little to no supervision and protect them from feeling the full consequences of their actions. What could possibly go wrong?
Maybe, after almost thousand years, we could possibly come up with something a bit better?
Did these collage students go to college, to hone their artistic collage skills?
(Ducking, running :-)
Our defense department is in Ukraine monitoring the tactics and effectiveness of Russian weapons systems as well as ours. Hopefully the GOP higher-ups are doing the same politically in Argentina.
*You take a bunch of wealthy horny teens,*
I was a leftist back then. It was a lot easier that way to get laid. Unshaved underarms were todays tattoos.
Which is totally irrelevant. The media decries mob rule...unless the mob is left-wing.
😂 👍🏼
Well said.
The Left hates tax cuts.
Collage students have been rioting since collages first were invented. You take a bunch of wealthy horny teens, group them together, make sure all their basic needs are met, give them little to no supervision and protect them from feeling the full consequences of their actions.
I don't know about private universities, but public universities in Argentina are different from our public universities. They have no dorms, no sports teams, no dining halls; they are literally just a few classrooms scattered here and there throughout Buenos Aires. More like our community colleges than our public universities. Many students live with their parents and work an outside job. Not really sure it's an apples-to-apples comparison.
They do not have dorms but they do have student housing. In fact all university students are pretty much housed in a very few sections of the city.
And they are a BIT more then a "few class rooms".
Federic Bastiat would be proud of Milei and probably would have let him write the introduction to “The Law” had he been around then.
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