Chainsaw-Style…Argentine President Javier Milei Announces His Plan To Fire 70,000 Government Workers

Argentina President Javier Milei has given people a lot of reasons to love him leading up to -- and in the months following -- his election last December. He flies commercial, he told the WEF in Davos to go stuff it, and for crying out loud, the guy campaigned with an actual chainsaw (we might like that one the best). They don't call him 'El Loco' for nothing. Yesterday, Bloomberg announced yet another reason for everyone to love Milei: he is following through on his campaign promise to take that chainsaw of his and apply it repeatedly to the corrupt federal government in Argentina. Argentine President Javier Milei plans to fire 70,000 government workers. Seventy thousand jobs. And we get the feeling that he is just getting started.

Argentine President Javier Milei plans to fire 70,000 government workers in the coming months in one of the clearest signs yet of how the libertarian’s chainsaw-style approach intends to slash the swollen state. Beyond the job cuts, Milei boasted Tuesday at an event that he’s frozen public works, cut off some funding to provincial governments and terminated more than 200,000 social welfare plans, which he labeled as corrupt. It’s all part of his strategy to reach a fiscal balance at any cost this year. “There’s a lot of blender,” Milei said in an hour long speech at the IEFA Latam Forum in Buenos Aires, referring to the erosion of wages and pensions by 276% annual inflation. “There’s a lot more chainsaw.” -- 'There's a lot more chainsaw.' We absolutely LOVE it.

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