Argentina's Mileise: Construction, manufacturing collapse amid plummeting demand

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4. Inflation - which is still running well over last year's - has only "slowed" because they now have a full-on depression

As all the data clearly indicate.

All Argentines know this painfully - except that right-wingers mumble that "it's worth it" (btw: they said the same about the last dictatorship - whose policies he's basically copying).

Make no mistake: Chucky's policies are absolute anathema to any Democrat, or traditional (pro-business) Republican, for that matter - basically a scorched-earth, pro-cyclical suicide attempt akin to imposing sanctions on your own country.

And while seniors, education, public works, provinces and other domestic needs (including police) are being starved, and importers, pharmacies, and energy wholesalers are owed billions (being paid, piecemeal, in near-worthless bonds)...

the little pill-popper is buying 24 useless, Reagan-era F-16s at $338 million a pop (which Argentina can't use anyway, thanks to the UK embargo on anything with UK-sourced parts) - just to endear himself to neo-cons and their apologists.

I for one do hope he finishes out his one term - and he probably will, given that he still enjoys RW media and grudging business elite support (they're hemorrhaging money - but he sings their tune, the poor idiots).

But he should certainly be tried afterward for fraud, malfeasance, and (given his undeclared accounts) corruption.

Now. Luckily for him, this is Argentina - where the courts are mostly like something out of Torquemada.

So I say, let him (and his 4 million-peso-a-month gay lover) retire to Miami. And caramba, may those people learn once and for all.

Thank you for caring, and I appreciate your thoughts.