It must get worse before it gets better. As promised, Milei cleans house.

It must get worse before it gets better. As promised, Milei cleans house. https://english.elpais.com/international/2024-04-02/president-javier-milei-fires-24000-government-workers-in-argentina-no-one-knows-who-will-be-next.html

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If you read carefully, it’s clear he’s done it in stages, spanning a whole quarter.

The numbers represent in total less than 10%, and most are in the areas which are not crucial to running the services (contractors and temp workers).

Don’t forget that bloated government leads to inefficiency, as proven by UK.

I believe that this cannot be done so aggressively, the population must have the minimum services while you make the cuts and in this case it is not like that.