Posted on 12/20/2023 8:15:52 AM PST by SeekAndFind
How's this for an idea?
Argentina's new president, Javier Milei, and his new justice minister, Patricia Bullrich, have advised Argentina's rioters they can kiss their welfare payments goodbye if they go out rioting -- starting fires, spraying graffiti, breaking windows, blocking roads, and looting.
Milei's government in Argentina 🇦🇷 announced that they will cut off welfare benefits for everyone who riots and cuts off traffic in protests.
The security minister said that police will take pictures and drones will, too.
The most based spending cut! pic.twitter.com/LB0j6n1iN9 — Daniel Di Martino 🇺🇸🇻🇪 (@DanielDiMartino) December 19, 2023
Bullrich, a former political rival of Milei's, and an establishment conservative, has advised rioters, known as piqueteros in that country, that they'll be sending drones in to take names for those in the act of rioting, and that will be that.
Piqueteros have been a plague for decades in that country -- when I visited Buenos Aires in 2002, they were a problem even then. I recall that one of my contacts there, either Diana Mondino (who is now Milei's foreign minister), or banker Jorge Bustamante, author of "La República Corporativa," a best-seller about how fascism evolved through Peronism to wreck Argentina, explained that the state actually paid for always-leftist piqueteros to do what they do, as if they were special interest group.
According to Wikipedia (and what I heard on the streets in Buenos Aires), they aren't a popular bunch:
Piquetero organizations have also been fiercely criticized at times by many in Argentina, accusing them of being associated with organized crime and alleging unconstitutionality, in accordance with Article 14 of the Argentine Constitution, which states that citizens must be guaranteed the right to;
- "... enter, remain in, travel in and out of Argentine territory."
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Oooo...Excellent!
You just got to love this guy!
This account, from the National Catholic Reporter, on how the poor of Argentina truly love and vote for Milei, prompting Pope Francis to throw out an olive branch to Milei, also describes well how the society works to pay its protestors as if they were a lifestyle choice.
It's long, but pretty good reading, given that it delves into much about how that society is organized and how 'social justice' groups have made life anything but just for the poor who love Milei.
Based on the Wikipedia account, it appears they have the legal wherewithal to yank the checks of professional rioters and looters, and with the government coffers bare, one hopes they carry through -- they will be popular if they do even if the piqueteros rage even more.
Imagine that -- pulling welfare benefits from illegal rioters and looters. It speaks well for Milei that he's tackling this problem in such a "based" way, as Di Martino puts it. He's cutting $20 billion in government spending from Argentina's budget.
The idea has been proposed in the United States, too, back in 2020, by Rep. Jim Banks of Indiana, when antifa and Black Lives Matter mobs were burning down America in the wake of the George Floyd protests. It went nowhere and the rioters got away with it.
This account, from the National Catholic Reporter, on how the poor of Argentina truly love and vote for Milei, prompting Pope Francis to throw out an olive branch to Milei, also describes well how the society works to pay its protestors as if they were a lifestyle choice. It’s long, but pretty good reading, given that it delves into much about how that society is organized and how ‘social justice’ groups have made life anything but just for the poor who love Milei.
2) Paid protestors again. It is an industry.
When Passionist Srs. Florencia Buruchaga and AngĂ©lica Agorta entered the voting booth for Argentina’s runoff election, they confronted a choice between casting a blank ballot or voting for Javier Milei — the firebrand libertarian who derided Pope Francis as a “filthy leftist.” Opting for the ruling Peronist coalition and its candidate, Sergio Massa, was never an option.
The right to protest is one thing, but it doesn’t entitle one to disrupt.
Priests and religious in poor barrios operate soup kitchens, drug rehabilitation programs and vocational training schools, among other projects. Some involve government cooperation — such as an agency for drug addictions providing funding for employee salaries.
“We work with the state. But we don’t let them domesticate us,” Buruchaga said, taking an independent stance from others in the church.
“We’re doing a job that the state should be doing. It should be supporting it,” she adds, though with Milei’s austerity, that support remains to be seen.
Agree?
“Paid protestors again. It is an industry.”
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I wonder if they’re included in the government’s employment numbers?
Goddamn Peronistas never, ever learn their lesson.
The great irony of libertarianism is that the only way to get the mass of people to accept it is by use of force. You have to violate the NAP in order to institute the NAP.
Milei is great. But let’s give welfare folks incentive not to riot and block traffic with the executive order mandating that welfare benefits from welfare deadbeats rioting or blocking traffic will be transferred to welfare deadbeats who don’t. In that case gubmint transfer payments will achieve the stated objective
THIS is why Milei wants to end the Argentine Central Bank.
When political forces can print money and create debt at will, they will spend their newly-created counterfeit money on social-engineering and their own political schemes
SAME thing happening in the USA.
“We’re doing a job that the state should be doing.”
Agree?”
No, charity is not the role of the state. Charity should be private.
When you delegate compassion to the state you end up with fraud, abuse, a sense of entitlement, destruction of personal responsibility, etc... it’s a cancer to civil society. And we’re living it... and dying from it.
Trump/Javier 2024
You don't need to give their welfare to another, at all.
In fact, find ways to get others off welfare, too.
Most of the “compassion” ends up as fat salaries to executives of “non profits”.
The big “non profits” can also hire high priced attorneys/lobbyists to keep the gravy train going...with bribes as well as propaganda of various kinds.
Meanwhile there is no “compassion” for the taxpayers who are getting scammed.
Antifa-ros.
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