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Juan Grabois also criticized the Alimentar Card: 'It's a stupid policy'

2021-05-12T05:08:08.371Z


Like Emilio Persico, the social leader questioned the government's economic aid for the most vulnerable sectors.


05/09/2021 2:48 PM

  • Clarín.com

  • Politics

Updated 05/09/2021 2:48 PM

The social leader Juan Grabois fired criticism against the Alimentar Card announced by Alberto Fernández and described it as "a stupid policy", while he did not hesitate to point out that the Government makes "permanent mistakes".

His questions are added to those made hours before by the leader of the Evita Movement, Emilio Persico, who is also an official of the Ministry of Development.

Grabois expressed himself this way in a column published by the

elDiarioAr.com

website

, under the title

"The Alimentar Card is not social justice"

, in which

he expresses

in harsh terms his disagreement with the plan announced by the National Executive to help the most vulnerable sectors during the second wave of coronavirus.

"It was decided to apply the resources to a policy that I can only describe with a word.

It is a stupid policy

," began the Kirchner leader.

In this sense, he added:

"We see with sadness how our government makes permanent mistakes

due to incomprehensible blindness. We feel the obligation to debate the decision to deepen the path started with the Alimentar Card."

Although he celebrated that "the economic cabinet decided to break the pig that seemed reserved exclusively for Kristalina Georgieva (head of the IMF), Grabois stressed that" mass welfare is not the way.

With a mention of Menemism, Grabois deepened his criticism of the Alimentar Card: "It is also the aggiornated reproduction of the Menemism's conditional transfer of income programs.

It is a 'focused' neoliberal policy

because it does not establish permanent rights, it does not create job, does not generate durable social goods, does not promote integral human development ". And he continued:

"It is an insufficient and inconsistent policy."

With the same tone, the leader explained that the aforementioned Card

does not combat child malnutrition nor does it reach indigenous peoples

: "In the Chaco region of Salta, where we children literally die from diseases associated with malnutrition, there is no PosNET, just clear and contamination. "

The referent of the Union of Workers of the Popular Economy (UTEP) requested, instead,

"paid work" and "labor rights

.

"

"From the popular movements, we believe that against hunger, poverty and indigence there is only one way out. That way out is work, paid and with labor rights. Precisely because we fight for work is that opinion makers, certain business sectors and Much of politics constantly seek to install the opposite: that we are the lazy, the choriplaneros, the poor people. There they are, "he insisted.

A day before, Pérsico had recorded a video to analyze the scope of the new measures that Fernández communicated at the Bicentennial Museum and said that the card is "bread for today and hunger for tomorrow."

"Spending on direct aid, the Alimentar card, includes us as consumers, but

that is not social inclusion

, the only inclusion is work. It does not solve the problem of inflation, because inflation eats it up. The card is bread for today and hunger for tomorrow, "Persico said in a recording of just 10 minutes.

After the President's announcements, the Alimentar Card will reach a universe of 2 million people and will extend its reach to children up to 14 years of age, while the amount will be $ 6,000 for mothers with one child, and $ 9,000 for mothers with two children and $ 12,000 for three children or more.

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Emilio Pérsico criticized Alberto Fernández's announcement: "The Alimentar card is bread for today and hunger for tomorrow"

Source: clarin

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