CFK called on all Argentines to unite in defending the model started in 2003
Argentine president Cristina Fernandez said on Wednesday that in an uncertain global scenario the priority of her administration was to ensure jobs and called on all sectors to unite in the defence of the political and economic model implemented since 2003.
“We need all Argentines to be united, organized, and with solidarity to defend this model which does not belong to one sector or a party, but to all of us”, said the Argentine leader on Wednesday during an official ceremony in the province of San Luis.
“All is so interconnected in the modern world that we can’t separate the route of Argentina from the rest of the countries”, she added. “You don’t have to be very intelligent to realize that if the main trade partners of the world are having trouble, we have to ensure jobs by implementing counter cyclical policies, those which have been the great merit of this model and are now copied world wide”.
“Money must circulate moving goods and services’ circuits to generate value and wealth”, said Cristina Fernandez underlining that “having jobs is the great social and family organizer, furthermore without jobs there are no social organizers, and that is what we want to defend most to keep growing and we are going to defend this policy with all weapons available”.
The president went on to argue that “we have always worked for equality and building and I believe we have been able to bring together two great values for any society: freedom and equality. The two are necessary, you can’t think about equality without freedom”.
The goal of this administration is for each Argentine “to choose the life he wants to have and not be condemned because he was born in a humble home or had no possibilities”.
On arriving at the province of San Luis, which she hadn’t visited since 2007 (it is under control of a dissident family from the ruling coalition), the President said that “we need to be united and working because there are many things to achieve still” and insisted the country must continue to grow in harmony and in peace.
“To all the men and women of San Luis and the country, we need you united and working, much is still needed to be done, and this we must achieve united and with solidarity”.
“Much has been achieved in these nine years and we will continue to work with the same strength and conviction we did when we started this process on 25 May 2003”, said Cristina Fernandez.
“We have come to open a pork processing plant, a model plant financed by the federal Ministry of Agriculture because when investing, for the federal government all provinces are equal and are part of the same country, a country which belongs to 40 million Argentines”.
The speech and the opening of the plant was followed on national television and most private channels and once finished, the political rally in Buenos Aires took off.
The chief of organized labour Hugo Moyano actually waited for Cristina Fernandez to finish the ceremony before starting his speech which in spite of the politeness, further distancing the unionized workers movement from the current administration.
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Is it written as an economic thesis or is it just a name she has given to her governments strategy of bouncing around from one crisis to the next making up policy on the hoof?
I choose option 2 for $10. ;0)
What the dear leader doesn't understand, is that the people can see through her lies, and see just how bad the economy is, so why should they support a failed economic model (?!?) and a rapidly failing government.
If everything was hunky-dory she wouldn't have to try a rally support like this.
Living in her ivory tower, surrounded by sicophants, she truly has no idea just how desperate the people of Argentina are getting.
The rich can always 'get out of dodge' until the crises has passed, but the middle and working classes are stuck in a cycle of poverty, perpetuated by the government.
Viva la Revolución! Workers and People unite and overthrow this evil, thieving regime.
The conditions that made it possible for Argentina to expand its economy in previous years may not be there any more, the country cannot lock itself to a rigid economic model, it has to make changes to continue growing.
the longer she stays on the throne the more damage to Argenweeeeener.
ITS ALL GOOD!!!
The problem seems to be that Argentines are used to chaotic government so seem to tolerate it to a greater degree too.
Are we reading from the same hymn sheet ?
I think your obsession with her looks is blinding your judgement.
BK you are an Anglo Troll!!!
You must be totally dislectic if you think that Kretina represents the left. She is the epitomy of the peronist RIGHT, stealing from the poor to feed herself.
I guess we are seeing what happens when a new economic model is “created”
If that is brillant, the rest of the world leaders must be sheara geniuses. BK just how low are your standards to be a genius? She is not a leftist....she is a theive who deprives her people of opportunity be trying to make them all dependant on government handouts, aka.....buying votes.
Bullshit. Peru has been the fastest growing economy in the Americas for the better part of the latest decade, and the same applies for Turkey in the Mediterranean.
“but those countries had to undergo changes in order to achieve that.”
What changes has Mexico undergone? Mexico took a beating in the 2008 and it is slowly recovering ground, that's all. Peru is doing what it has always done, extracting metals and developing infrastructure for this purpose. As for Turkey, all it seems to be doing is blowing financial bubbles. It has a huge trade deficit and that puts into doubt any notion that it is benefiting from alleged loss of East Asia's manufacturing capacity. Its wage levels are probably too high for that, and I'm not even going to talk about the US, whose export capacity seems to derive entirely on how low the dollar will go.
Mexico signed more trade agreements in order to diversify its international trade, there were regulatory reforms to allow businesses to set up in a few days, as opposed to what it was before, there was a program of incentive and infrastructure to attract automotor and aerospace industry investors, many aerospace and automotor companies set up shop during these years thanks to these and many other changes.
Lets see... no gasoline, no nat gas, no electric, no medicine, no syringes....do you think RGs are happy going living like it was 100 yrs ago? Maybe they want to relive teh days when they were considered rich?
What a glorious new economic model!!
Tick Tock Tick Tock
This is who she will blame (though not necessarily in this order):
1. The Evil British and Falkland Islanders (pirates -arrgggg!)
2. The Unions
3. The Evil British and Falkland Islanders (pirates -arrgggg!)
4. The USA
5. The Evil British and Falkland Islanders (pirates -arrgggg!)
6. The Military Junta from 1982
7. The Evil British and Falkland Islanders (pirates -arrgggg!)
8. The WTO
9. The Evil British and Falkland Islanders (pirates -arrgggg!)
10. The IMF
11. The Evil British and Falkland Islanders (pirates -arrgggg!)
12. The World Bank
13. The Evil British and Falkland Islanders (pirates -arrgggg!)
14. Native Amerindians
15. The Evil British and Falkland Islanders (pirates -arrgggg!)
16. Her Vice President
17. The Evil British and Falkland Islanders (pirates -arrgggg!)
18. Aliens from planet X
19. The Evil British and Falkland Islanders (pirates -arrgggg!)
20. The UN
21. The Evil British and Falkland Islanders (pirates -arrgggg!)
Have I missed anyone out?
500 might not seem like a lot but how many 100os are laid off in the car mfgs too? 1000 here 1000 there adds up pretty quickly in your country.
I wonder what the new unemployment figure will be for July...do you think Arg will be 9% yet or will that be in Aug.
@8 Trouble is that the “raving opportunist” Moyano appears to have been saying and fighting for the same things since 1973? How about CFK? Don't they come from the same town?
@11 Please don't call him an Anglo. He's nothing to do with us. Every so often he gives away something that shows that he's not British and, if he ever lived in Britain, he doesn't now.
On a wider note, have you ever heard a more condescending “speech”? “All is so interconnected in the modern world that we can’t separate the route of Argentina from the rest of the countries” So piss off anyone you like, right?
“we have always worked for equality and building and I believe we have been able to bring together two great values for any society: freedom and equality. The two are necessary, you can’t think about equality without freedom”. Except for the Falklands, who can't have freedom or equality.
“To all the men and women of San Luis and the country, we need you united and working, much is still needed to be done, and this we must achieve united and with solidarity”. Yeah. Work, serfs. She needs lots more money, your money, yet!
thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/foreign-policy/235347-the-truth-behind-argentinas-debt-problems
No one can have perceived your model yet that what it is !
The Falklands were not mentioned once,
Mmmmm
Something’s in the wind,
BK , please
Support her if you want, but don’t stand hand in hand on a sinking ship, trying to persuade us, you are only standing in a paddling pool.
its not fair on the fishes .
First time I ever saw the word STAGFLATION in tn.com ! Are they reading my posts?
Click Click Click I hear the presses printing Pesos or are they patacones? Not sure yet.
As Einstein said, 'Insanity is repeating the same thing over and over and yet expecting a different result'. This is a clear example of that.
Reading @ Forgetit87 I understand now that some south american countries are obsessed with Trade Deficits, but try to curve them by means of crazy and unilateral protectionist measures that will only lead to a destruction of their competitiveness ultimately. The way to respond to trade deficits is to open your markets, creative incentives for companies to invest more on training for their employees so they can achieve higher quality at lowers costs of production, creative incentives to facilitate introduction or new equipment, new technologies, improve your fiscal system to facilitate the creation of more businesses, and there are hundreds of things a government can do. Chile is doing it, Mexico is doing it, other countries are doing, and they are growing today steadily.
That's common sense. But whar does common sense have to do with the Argentine government?
The Argentine government plays the populist card, and the people are impatient and want it now, not tomorrow or next year, so making short term policies which leave them lurching from one crises to another is easier than building long term stability.
After all, the government are only in power for a few years, and instead of doing what's right for the country, they just stuff their pockets with as much cash as they can before it all comes crashing down around their ears.
Argentina has used this particular model for years, it doesn't work, but no one wants to take responsibility for saving Argentina from its self inflicted wounds.
Have a look at the grille: it is just like The Mad Bitch of Argentina - a great big cnut.
It also failed in very short time and is only sited for how not to do it.
Just like the Argentinean economy.
What do you think about BA running out of cash?
Skilled econmic policy, she's been consulting the late Kim Jong IL for too long.........but I heara Ahmadinejad is bailing her out.
Ha, Ha!! do you think she looks tired??
Is that the fabled Nestor? His eyes seem to be looking in the right direction for a change, perhaps the image was 'corrected'.
I must say I thought the one with Boudou (or whatever) was very funny.
I continue to enjoy your beautifully measured hidden-humour.
It is so well judged that many people on the site take your comments at their face-value, fail to see that you are 'taking the pee', and get upset with the actual words.
For me, focus on the policy and not the features of your dear and beautiful queen.
Looks good!?!, not even a desparate man deprived of women for a decade would find her looking good. She looks like the fat in her ass was sucked out and shot into her lips with a botox forehead. Hence the nickname....Ms. Botox I've so often heard. Even a 1 peso whore in a 5 peso hotel (of course whores only take geenbacks) looks better than KFC. She's stressed by with worry of a red laser dot on her forehead.
... chill Cristina, millions of Hindus go around with a permanent red dot on their forehead.
Laser-dot, binde, nande;
none of these compare with a cattle-bolt up-close and personal.
Compression ends depression.
When I was a young engineer, I used to design cattle-stunners (as the UK markets knows them).
10 mm diameter bolt powered by a 0.22rf lr blank. Takes down ANY type of steer or cow.
Talking of cows, I could be persuaded to have a gold-plated model made if you think it would be attractive to B-Ks 'queen'. :o)
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