What point are you trying to make? This person was literally telling the journalist how she NEEDS this subsidies to be able to live; what's she going to do when it goes away? Do you think she will magically become able to pay for the commute?
Argentina has a lot of problems, of course it does, but if people need help it's not because they're "living off the state" it's because even with the jobs they have they don't have enough to live. This is very much a different set of problems that's unrelated to subsidies to healthcare, education and public transportation. Of course there's a lot of unnecessary handouts in Argentina, for one, gasoline is way too cheap (for example). This money is effectively helping out the people that have the most money in the country (because the poor use the public transportation, they don't drive their own cars) and would be a good angle to start tackling the financial irresponsibility problem.
Do you think Milei will get rid of the subsidies to gas? Well, he's not mentioned it.
I'm not making an assumption here on what she might be thinking, I'm saying she is effectively voting against her own interests by her own words. If you look at reasons why people are voting for Milei it's not because "Argentina needs to stop having a strong-state", it's because people are sick of the politicians that are offered by "the other side". They don't want traditional politicians from any side, and at this point, Milei is the one that presented himself as an alternative. It might very well be an extreme-leftist that rises to power; it just so happens that right now it's the right wing and the libertarians that have a much better understanding of these "outsider" dynamics; a lot of it spear-headed by Trump in 2016 and then Bolsonaro in 2019.
But I'm not going to be surprised when we start the actual extreme left raising up in a few years because it'll be the exact same phenomenon just with another sign.
Argentina has a lot of problems, of course it does, but if people need help it's not because they're "living off the state" it's because even with the jobs they have they don't have enough to live. This is very much a different set of problems that's unrelated to subsidies to healthcare, education and public transportation. Of course there's a lot of unnecessary handouts in Argentina, for one, gasoline is way too cheap (for example). This money is effectively helping out the people that have the most money in the country (because the poor use the public transportation, they don't drive their own cars) and would be a good angle to start tackling the financial irresponsibility problem.
Do you think Milei will get rid of the subsidies to gas? Well, he's not mentioned it.
I'm not making an assumption here on what she might be thinking, I'm saying she is effectively voting against her own interests by her own words. If you look at reasons why people are voting for Milei it's not because "Argentina needs to stop having a strong-state", it's because people are sick of the politicians that are offered by "the other side". They don't want traditional politicians from any side, and at this point, Milei is the one that presented himself as an alternative. It might very well be an extreme-leftist that rises to power; it just so happens that right now it's the right wing and the libertarians that have a much better understanding of these "outsider" dynamics; a lot of it spear-headed by Trump in 2016 and then Bolsonaro in 2019.
But I'm not going to be surprised when we start the actual extreme left raising up in a few years because it'll be the exact same phenomenon just with another sign.