The President Javier Milei concluded the annual dinner Lighthouse Foundation at the exclusive Yacht Club of Puerto Madero, where he gave a tense ideological speech to businessmen and government figures. At the meeting of Think tank led by the right Agustin Lajethe President, accompanied by his sister and the Secretary General of the Presidium, Karina Mileicalled for continuing the “cultural struggle” against “left obscurantism” and defended the “honesty” of its management by attacking – according to its vision – those who promote interventions in certain economic sectors.
In one passage, Milei drew a line between his liberal approach and sectoral intervention policies, alluding to supposed interests aimed at particular advantages: “If there is something that has been learned in the world, it is something that is called that Don’t pick winnersthat is, the winners are not selected. So when you talk about it Save a sectorthey need to put money into this sector. And the question is whether you choose a sector to win because you invest money in it. The question is: where does the money come from? (…) Reality lies so deep inside what they do is lobby. It’s pure corruption“.
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The quote served as a framework for one of the evening’s central messages, in which the president used the idea Lack of interest in “microeconomics” as a compliment to redefine government intervention in this area as an act of corruption: “So when they say I don’t bother with the mic, thank you, because that shows that.” This is an honest government“.
The speech, which opened with La Renga’s controversial “Panic Show,” touched on everything from the recent attack in Australia to José Antonio Kast’s recent presidential victory in Chile. This last point was used to celebrate that “South America has awakened” and “began to turn unfailingly toward the acid of freedom, away from the catastrophe of 21st century socialism.”
The “Spiritual War”
Milei described the meeting as part of a “spiritual war” being waged for the future of the region. The president sharply criticized the ideas of socialism and Keynesianism, which he called the “philosopher’s stone of economics” that promised a “machine of infinite wealth.”
“Unfortunately, we are at a disadvantage and we are very clear about that. For years we have neglected the culture war,” said the president, who described socialism based on the economist Thomas Sowell: “The best thing about socialism is that it sounds nice. The worst thing is that it never works.”
Finally, the president warned of the danger of government policies that condemn the West to “collective suicide,” paraphrasing Milton Friedman, who argued that societies that “prioritize equality over freedom achieve neither.”
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