Javier Milei
gave a speech of almost 70 minutes at the forum that takes place at Llao Llao, in Bariloche. There, the President
defined those who flee money as "heroes"
and
mocked Martín Lousteau
for the increase in allowances in the Senate.
Before 150 businessmen, Milei described the central deficit as "the central problem" of the Argentine economy.
"You have a fiscal deficit and you finance it with monetary issuance. In other words, you maintain the exchange rate. So what happens? You lose reserves. And then
the criminal exchange law appears,"
said the head of state, in the speech he gave this Friday at noon at the forum where he arrived in the middle of a major security operation.
"For what? So that you can't buy dollars," Milei continued.
Then he launched his first joke at the senators. "Politicians do not want to touch theirs,
yesterday it was very clear that theirs is not touched...
Macri would say 'mine is there'. It was a clear example. Mine is, eh," he shot at the members of the Upper House, who voted an increase in their allowances that made the President angry.
He returned to his argument about covering the fiscal deficit. "If they finance it with monetary emission, they generate inflation. What do they do? Price controls. For example, the Gondola Law," he said about the regulations that he repealed with the mega DNU.
"Now, what happens?" he drew attention to the possible consequences. "When you control prices, shortages appear. How does politics respond? With the Shortage Law," he pointed out another law that the decree left behind.
He transferred that reasoning to the exchange market.
"Their dollars are gone, so they put capital controls.
And then the one who escapes, let's say, is
a criminal
," he objected, dissatisfied, about the regulations.
"He is a hero! He who escapes is a hero!
I mean, he managed to escape from the clutches of the State," he appealed to his audience, who responded with murmurs and laughter. "No, you guys laugh, but that's how I see it."
Then the President put on "the economist's suit" and recommended purchasing dollars. "If it's in black, better," he added.
"I mean, I mean, what would you recommend to your client?
Now I put on my economist suit... Buy dollars!
Well, I say that later it appears as a leak," Milei insisted, before giving his final advice and mocking the boss. radical.
"The truth is that
if you buy it in black, it is better.
Because then you don't have to pay a lot of stupid taxes that there are. And for what?
To finance those who raise their hands and those who act as queruza... "To finance those useless people?"
, concluded that passage.
The allusion to the one who "raised his queruza hand" was by Lousteau, who at the time of the vote on the increase in allowances in the Senate raised his hand timidly, barely perceptible behind his podium. This was portrayed in a video that users and trolls who were fans of Milei posted on social networks, where the President himself took aim at the former Minister of Economy.
PERFECT DESCRIPTION pic.twitter.com/bhcdiLvza8
— Javier Milei (@JMilei) April 19, 2024
On his Twitter account, the head of state replied to jokes and mockery from users. "Monument to Lousteau" was the legend that accompanied a photo of La Mano de Punta del Este, the sculpture of fingers that peek out from the sand that is one of the favorite spots of tourists in the top Uruguayan resort.
Milei also spread an image generated by artificial intelligence with which he once again treated deputies and senators as rats, like when the first version of the Omnibus Law collapsed. She sees the
rodents sitting on their benches, surrounded by coins and dollars
. In the background you can see a mouse almost imperceptibly raising one hand.
"Perfect description,"
assessed the President.