He President of Argentina, Javier Milei, assured that the State “is a violent criminal association that lives off taxes”, in a particular speech in his debut before businessmen in Uruguay,during the traditional lunch Association of Marketing Leaders (ADM), where he provided some economic concepts, but also biblical references and passages through opera.
After closing his participation in the summit of the Mercosurand receiving the pro tempore presidency of the bloc, Milei was honored and named as an honorary member of ADM. In fact, in his welcome speech, the president of the association, Jorge Abuchalja, He stated that ADM “shares the economic outlook” of the current Argentine president.
The event took place, as usual, in the Radisson Hotel, where the Argentine delegation also stayed for a few hours. He also called for two demonstrations at the door, with few attendance but noisy: one against, led by the union of civil servants of the University of the Republic, who carried, among others, a banner with the inscription “genocidal of retirees”, and another in favor, with young people identified with the ideas of the libertarian, who cheered him and chanted one of the leader’s iconic phrases: “Long live freedom, damn it! ”.
Milei’s message surprised many of those present, some guests and other local businessmen who paid several hundred dollars for a privileged place to see and listen to the president up close. The menu included salmon rolls with salad, baked chicken with creamed potatoes and chocolate tartlet.
Although the almost 30-minute speech was not focused on the economy, it had constant references to the subject, with passages from opera and biblical references, specifically to the figure of Moses.
“Economic growth depends on institutions”
When referring to economic issues, Milei said: “The growth economic depends on the institutions. The central axis is the institutions, which shape the framework and moral bases of a society.”
“When a society embraces values such as envy, hatred, resentment, unequal treatment before the law or even murder, which is what the socialism, ends in a catastrophe. Always. Inexorably, because it goes against human nature, and against the best of human nature,” Milei reflected with his classic vehemence.
In contrast, he stated that “when he embraces the ideas of freedom, he prospers, because the liberalism It is the unrestricted respect for the life project of others, based on the principle of non-aggression and in defense of the right to life, liberty and property.”
“When you embrace these values, you can only be successful by serving others with goods of better quality and better price. “Those who are successful are actually social benefactors,” he indicated, while raising some timid applause from an audience that tried to follow with the maximum possible attention a speech that had several changes in theme and tone, always full of powerful images.
Israel, the Middle East and the comparison with Moses
Milei placed himself in another deeply reflective moment and stated: “The set of values that a society embraces is fundamental. I always reflect on embracing the values of the West, which achieved the greatest feat of civilization.” “The basis of these values is Israel”, stated the Argentine president, who justified in this way what he defined as the central bases of his foreign policy.
And he stated: “If we do not understand the civilizational struggle that is taking place, we do not know what is happening in the rest of the world. For some reason, cultural Marxism and the left are associated with terrorism and attack our civilizational basis, because it is the way to destroy the values of West”.
State and slavery
Visibly motivated to raise the tone of his confrontational speech in an audience that could have been “friendly,” Milei raised the stakes and declared: “There is nothing that is free, and every time the State He says he is going to give them something, he is taking away their freedom.”
“What is the slavery? A 100% tax,” the Argentine president asked and responded, later defining himself as “anarcho-capitalist, because I hate the State.”
“The State is a violent criminal association that lives off a coercive source of income, which is the taxes. In fact, what is slavery? A 100% tax, which is not very different from what communism is,” he concluded.
Along these lines, Milei placed the figure of Moses in the center as someone who was very harshly criticized throughout history, making a comparison: “How can I not accept criticism, if they criticized Moses? How can they not criticize me?”
Verdi’s opera and the role of González Oro
For the only time, there were no moderators or local journalists, nor questions. At the request of Milei himself, he was the communicator Oscar González Oro who presented the president with the opera Nabucco background.
Milei then made reference to the opera in his speech, while González Oro described the president with a series of praises and asked the audience to applaud him by rising from their chairs several times.
Source: Ambito
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