cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/51070777
“Yet, they never have the funds for healthcare coverage for all,” said Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib.
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Double or nothing. Trump firmly believes in the Martingale strategy. It’s part of the art of the deal.
Argentina, Israel and Qatar first.
What a fucking dumb asshole
Argentina is kicking back to the Trumps.
I kinda missed part 1 of the story; what’s the deal for Trump here?
He wouldn’t be doing this if there wasn’t something in it for him.
Oh and just in case somebody isn’t 100% clear what Milei is about:
While Milei has drastically slashed inflation, the reduction has come via the devaluation of the peso and massive cuts in government spending, including the evisceration of social programs resulting in more expensive housing, healthcare, and education.
And Trump doing mafia style threats again:
“If he loses, we are not going to be generous with Argentina,” Trump told reporters. “I think he’s going to win, and if he wins, we’re staying with him, and if he doesn’t win, we’re gone.”
Lawmaker Margarita Stolbizer:
“Trump tells us Argentines that if we don’t vote for Milei, we’ll be punished,” she added. "The interference is absolute, the libertarian surrender is total.
Im all about Milei. Im all about reducing the size of bloated governments and frivolous spending. Governments love to pay useless people to do useless and many times redundant work. I understanding these are people with jobs and paychecks, and people should be able to have a good job and pay check, but not pointlessly and at the expense of the tax payers.
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Argentinian government debt is mostly owned by big American investment firms like Black Rock. If their economy crashes, American Oligarchs lose $$$$ so they convinced Trump this is in his best interests.
i think it was blackstone, and fidelity was one of the major investors.
Yep, that makes sense. It’s all about the whisperers behind the dick tater.
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the play would be increasing US authority in South America either preemptively or as a direct response to eastern influences like Russia and China.
Maybe, if there was a smart big thought in that brain. This will be simpler, as they will just build a building or two, a tower and hotel or something with his name on it. In exchange for $40 bil of other people’s money. He doesn’t care about strategy or geopolitics, this guy is 100% about the corruption and the personal benefit, the quid pro quo, he’s the mob president.
I think that article is not well researched. Devaluing the currency causes inflation (in Argentina’s case), not the opposite. In fact, Milei did not sufficiently devalue the peso, because devaluing further would have caused more inflation. It’s exactly because he did not sufficiently devalue that the peso is now in crisis.
I don’t know about the other ones, but under Milei housing listings have become cheaper, when adjusted for inflation.
And according to salaries?
They’re sticking to those honest libertarian principles, like $40B bailouts.
Kinda wish I had a trolling reddit account to post on the libertarian subs
It is crazy to think you would be permabanned nowadays just for stating the unpopular truth on Reddit. What a garbage platform.
Out of curiosity, what does this do to the USD? I know it is a “small” amount relative to our country, but if they are swapping $40b in U.S. Dollars for a currency of high volatility, isnt it a guaranteed loss of believed stability in those USD up to that amount?
Soft power I guess? Maybe strings to dump us agricultural produce that is losing their market due to taco shenanigans.
Lol soft power.
Oh you mean like all of the soft power that we built up over the past 80 years and has been completely wiped in the past 10 months?
Soft power like that?
What are you talking about the dems made sure we had absolutely no soft power and were Enslaved to the commie libs since Reagan!
I honestly cannot tell if this is a joke or not lol.
Actually thanks to US money, Argentina was able to support its farmers by lower export tariffs for soy beans. They then sold a hell of a lot of those to China. Soy beans used to be the biggest US export to China…
Maybe in turn us gets to sell it’s GMO seeds to Argentina exclusively, displacing local seeds/agricultural self sufficiency forever? Idk
Milei wants to dollarize Argentina. Ones you do that, it is very hard to move to your own currency again and it would give the US massive influence over Argentina. The good news is that Argentina has a much more functional democracy then the US and their parliament is stopping Milei from doing too much bs. So probably this is going to fail.
Yet, they never have the funds for healthcare coverage for all
But Agentina now has.
America is paying for Argentina’s Universal Healthcare, without having their own.
The art of the deal, or something.
I guess Argentina read his book
It’s not like he can
I bet he has a special edition with plenty of pictures.
Umm, those are pictures of women’s breasts.
“Women’s”
Something something best deal maker. Tremendous greatly.
Can I now get my healthcare from Argentina? Please?
Same for Israel
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Probably quite a few missles to murder people on boats from Venezuala
That’d pay for a lot of people’s dental care
So long dental plan
Millei is killing public healthcare, pushing to a US style system, with US medical corporations.
No wonder Trump likes him. He’s an asshole.
Like they said, MAGA.
Making Argentina Great Again
So that’s what the A stood for!
Condor screeching
The country is totally fucked up when he can just decide to spend 40 Billion on a whim.
Isn’t there a shutdown? Because they can’t agree on a budget? And now there’s no money even to pay government employees? So where is this money suddenly coming from?
The government can literally print money
Governments can literally just spend money into existence.
That doesn’t mean one man can.
The government was shut down because they couldn’t agree to raise the limit on money they could just spend into existence.
Then what is the issue with that shutdown? Use that money to pay government employees first.
Aren’t Argentinan soy farmers basically stealing American soy farmer’s sales? Its almost like American farmers voting for this City Slicker Real Estate loser hate themselves or something.
Well, they never thought he’d eat their faces
I misread your comment as ‘eat their feces’ on a first glance…
No, no, they do that all on their own
For 40B, I could probably build a big enough carbon sink to fix global warming.
I was more under the opinion that he was setting up an escape plan just like the Nazis.
Maybe Trump should buy Islas Malvinas from Argentina.
Maybe trump should lock himself in a shipping container and drop it into the Marianas Trench.
First of course, it’s disrespectful to make insinuations to a sovereign country about whom they may vote into office.
Secondly, Trump doesn’t have authority to give loans.
He’s probably trying to deceive Argentinian voters with false hope of generous loans (which have to be paid back, I should note).
However, in the US, financial decisions are made by Congress. Certainly on the scale of tens of billons. The president has discretion to move far smaller sums.
This is going to end up with the US defaulting, isn’t it?
You are correct AND congress won’t do anything about if he does it anyway.
This guy over here talking about what trump is allowed to do like he don’t do whatever the fuck he feels like already.
Someone has to pay for the upkeep of all those Nazi summer homes.
