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[Laurent @scion_x_]

Ça fait un moment que je me pose des questions sur le bilan (provisoire) de Milei en Argentine. On lit tout et son contraire. Alors j'ai arrêté de lire les commentaires et j'ai regardé les chiffres bruts.

L'Argentine, c'est l'expérience grandeur nature que les économistes attendaient depuis 50 ans. Même pays. Même peuple. Même culture. On change UNE variable : la méthode économique.

Avant : des décennies de gestion étatiste et péroniste, "redistributive". Le résultat concret ? 211% d'inflation, 42% de pauvreté, un État en déficit permanent qui finance son train de vie en faisant tourner la planche à billets.

Puis arrive Milei. Méthode inverse, brutale, assumée : on coupe, on déréglemente, on arrête d'imprimer.

Deux ans plus tard (photo à son arrivée (fin 2023) vs aujourd'hui) :

Inflation annuelle : 211% → 31%
Inflation mensuelle : 25% → ~2%
Déficit public : −5% du PIB → +1,8% (excédent)
Croissance : −1,6% → +4,4%
Pauvreté : 42% → 28%

Sans débat. Jugez par vous-mêmes.

Et le point essentiel : ces gains ne vont pas "aux riches" ou "aux marchés". Ils vont d'abord aux plus pauvres.

L'inflation est l'impôt le plus injuste qui existe — elle frappe ceux qui n'ont aucun actif pour se protéger. La diviser par 7, c'est rendre du pouvoir d'achat à ceux d'en bas. Et 14 points de pauvreté en moins, ce sont des millions de gens, pas une ligne Excel.

Pendant un siècle, on a expliqué aux Argentins que l'État les protégerait en dépensant toujours plus. Résultat : un des pays les plus riches du monde en 1910, ruiné. On vient d'inverser la méthode. Regardez le résultat.

À un moment, il faut accepter ce que les faits racontent : sur le terrain économique, la méthode libérale a livré en deux ans ce que des décennies de socialisme avaient promis sans jamais tenir. Et ça profite d'abord aux plus modestes.

On peut détester le style de Milei — la tronçonneuse, l'outrance, les sorties improbables, il n'a rien d'un homme d'État classique. Mais on ne juge pas une politique économique au style de celui qui la mène. On la juge à ce qu'elle fait à la vie des gens.

Et les chiffres ont parlé.

[Ani O'Brien @aniobrien]

Will the real Oriini Kaipara please stand up? Oriini vs Oriini 🥊

[Swan @AndySwan]

You're much more of a slave to the 1% that commit 50% of crimes than you are to the 1% that create 40% of the wealth.

[Suit and tie @Suitandtie9999]

Chris Hipkins appeared on HDPA to defend his comments that Aucklanders have moved on from the long lockdowns and don’t hold a grudge against Labour — and it went exactly as expected.

[Simeon Brown @SimeonBrownMP]

Chris Hipkins flew into Auckland today claiming he wants to “unlock Auckland”. The irony is breathtaking. This is the very man who locked Auckland down in the first place, and the Royal Commission found he did so against public health advice.

Aucklanders haven’t forgotten what that meant.

They remember being locked out of saying goodbye to dying family members. They remember their kids shut out of classrooms.

They remember the small businesses that closed their doors for good, the elective surgeries pushed back for months, and the spike in ram raids that happened because of a soft on crime approach.

Our city is still bearing those scars.

Yet Hipkins had the audacity to suggest today that it’s only Newstalk ZB who ever raise the lockdowns with him.

That tells Aucklanders everything they need to know. He isn’t listening, he hasn’t learned, and he seems to think a huge chunk of this city simply doesn’t count.

Newstalk ZB happens to be listened to by a great many Aucklanders, and those Aucklanders are the ones he is dismissing.

Hipkins owes this city an explanation, not another flying visit and another spin line.

[Joe M @JoeM_NZ]

Considering videos like this and the media’s current behaviour, one of the best things David Seymour did was record all media interactions.

[Joe M @JoeM_NZ]

What role would the Treaty play for an NZ immigrant who descended from neither signatories: Māori or the Crown?

What constitutional representation would migrants therefore have?

Maybe ACTS Treaty Principles Bill wasn’t so racist after all….

@actparty @dbseymour #nzpol

[The Redbaiter @TheRedbaiter]

David Seymour slices Tova O'Brien into fine mince in this clip from 2019.

Showing that its actually quite easy to rebut her constant refrain of sad out-date "progressive" and separatist narratives.

No MP should be frightened off a public TV appearance by such a pitiful left wing hack.

Least of all the Prime Minister.

[Traductor 🥹💕💐 @TraductorTeAma]

🇦🇷✅️AHORA| El Diputado @Tronco, que estudió el reglamento de la Cámara; presentó un Proyecto para modificarlo y limitar la cantidad de pelotudeces que pueden decir los diputados.

Fundamentó diciendo que los políticos son unos enfermos narcisistas patológicos, que viven para los clics en redes sociales; y por eso dicen cada vez más pelotudeces.

Los que se opongan van a tener que explicarle a los argentinos por qué prefieren el caos y el show antes que el orden.
También en los fundamentos dice que en Diputados se tratan temas importantes; y que el tiempo perdido en boludeces es un robo a los argentinos que pagamos impuestos. Y que el tiempo legislativo es de los contribuyentes; no de la infinita vanidad de los políticos.

O sea, el diputado Sergio Tronco Figliuolo plantea que el tiempo del Congreso es de los representados (pueblo votante) y no de los representantes (legisladores).

Cuestiones de privilegio: máximo 5 minutos y relacionadas con el debate; nada de niños palestinos.

Tronco me representa.

[Hobson's Pledge @HobsonsPledgeNZ]

2000 years here?
Everyone else just guests?

That's bad maths and bad democracy.

[INDIGNADO @indignadoxd]

Ustedes eran muy chicos, pero esto era Argentina en el 2022 con los kukas. Nunca, pero nunca más volvamos a este modelo de país. 🙏🙏

[Winston Peters @winstonpeters]

New Zealand First to Campaign for Referendum on Māori Seats

The time has come for a decision on the future of the Māori seats.

It has been said many times but is a vitally undeniable fact – the Royal Commission into the electoral system in 1986 stated that with the implementation of MMP it would create a more representative Parliament and the original justification for separate Māori seats would no longer exist. This point cannot be ignored.

The Māori Party’s behaviour over the past two years has been the last straw. They hold the majority of the Māori seats and do not turn up to parliament, disregard the rules and processes, and show utter distain for the system that gives them the very seats they hold – they represent no one. They have proven the seats they hold are no longer relevant nor serve their original purpose.

We have just had a referendum on Local Māori Wards, and with the current Māori seat-holders showing how much of a mess they are in, it has proven that the time has come for the public to decide if they are effective, relevant, and if they are still needed.

If the Māori seats have enough people who support them then they could be retained.

But the fact is, we currently have a record number of Māori in parliament and in Cabinet, with twenty-seven percent of the House having a Māori background – far higher than the often claimed seventeen percent of the country’s Māori population.

Additionally, the number of Māori enrolled on the Māori roll has itself steadily decreased in recent years. It currently sits at only half of all Māori who are enrolled on the separate roll.

Between 1854 and 1978 there were only four Māori who held a general seat. But since the introduction of MMP that number has massively increased to now be an over-representation.

The arguments for a separate franchise based on race have become irrelevant.

New Zealand First has previously campaigned on this issue, and we believe we have an opportunity now to ensure this policy is implemented after the next election.

[𝙏𝙧𝙤𝙣𝙘𝙤 @tronco]

Los que marchan para “defender al laburante”, le afanan el local al laburante.

[Manuel Adorni @madorni]

Señor: en su caso, utilizar el verbo “pegar” tal vez no haya sido la mejor elección. De igual forma aprovecho para contarle que el pelo no se “pega”, sino que se implanta. También le comento que mi primera intervención capilar la tuve que posponer porque usted decidió encerrar a los argentinos de forma indefinida allá por el año 2020.

Su gobierno será recordado como el peor de la historia, por lo que tal vez no sea muy atinado seguir acotando bobadas en X.

Que Dios se apiade de su alma.

Saludos.

Fin.

[Ani O'Brien @aniobrien]

I’m so glad the NZ Herlad is keeping us informed with article after article about a woman being shot by law enforcement in Minneapolis. Would hate for them to waste time reporting more thoroughly on something inconsequential like revolution in Iran.

[Stanley del 56% @stanleybostero]

"La gente no ve seguro viajar a un país autoritario"

Las últimas dos sedes del mundial:

[Dr. Eli David @DrEliDavid]

Hi @Google, @Apple, @Meta,
Now it's your turn.

[Pablo Quirno @pabloquirno]

MÁS COMERCIO, MÁS INVERSIÓN y MÁS EMPLEO:

✅ EL CONSEJO EUROPEO AUTORIZA LA FIRMA DEL ACUERDO MERCOSUR-UE

Luego de más de 30 años de negociaciones, firmaremos el 17 de enero en Paraguay un acuerdo histórico y el más ambicioso entre ambos bloques.

✅ Todos ganamos:

➡️ La Argentina y los países del MERCOSUR accederán de manera preferencial a la UE, la tercera economía global, un mercado de 450 millones de personas, que representa cerca del 15% del PBI mundial.

➡️ La UE eliminará aranceles para el 92% de nuestras exportaciones y otorgará acceso preferencial para otro 7.5%. De esta forma, el 99% de las exportaciones agrícolas del MERCOSUR se verán beneficiadas.

La Argentina liderada por el Presidente @jmilei decide competir, producir y crecer con reglas claras y en libertad.

TMAP 🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷

La Argentina será próspera.

[Patricia Bullrich @PatoBullrich]

Argentina no para de lograr éxitos concretos para su gente.

Después de 25 años, se aprobó el acuerdo Mercosur-Unión Europea.

Más trabajo, más producción y más oportunidades de desarrollo e inversión.

[𝙏𝙧𝙤𝙣𝙘𝙤 @tronco]

@sanchezcastejon RETENIDOS, RETENIDOS PONES?….. Usar eufemismos para no incomodar a una dictadura no es diplomacia es no tener huevos.