You heard it on No Te Duermas
On the radio program, we spoke with Juan Romero, councilor of La Matanza for the Left Front, who harshly analyzed the veto of retirement mobility by Javier Milei.
Tomás Modini
@ModiniTomas
The government’s actions with retirement mobility
At the beginning of the talk on No Te Duermas, councilor Juan Romero criticized Javier Milei’s decision to totally veto the law: “We think the issue of retirees is very important and that is why we mobilized last week. What the government is doing is one of the biggest atrocities of the administration”
“This law is very limited, we questioned it because the increase seemed to us to be the increase of a remedy. The basic basket of a retiree today is valued at $900,000,” he added.
He also stressed that “however, logically, if Milei vetoed it, we must demand that Congress reject that veto” and that “therefore, after the mobilization last Tuesday, which I participated in like so many others, we experienced that repression that is a leap for the government because no one who beat up retirees ended up well. This is so and it is a before and after because it generated social rejection.”
“This is a problem for all workers”
In continuation, Romero referred to the consequences that this measure would have: “Any of those colleagues could be the father of some worker, the brother and it seems to me that that was very strong. And it is selfish because anyone will end up being retired. Those of us who are working today have to understand that it is our problem, that it is not only about the fact that in a certain number of years we will retire, but that as these reforms advance, what they want to leave is the deferred salary of a retiree and leave a pension for the elderly, which would be a minimum thing. It would be a condemnation to work until death, basically.”
“Together with all these requirements of the IMF and these reforms that Milei wants to make, they want to liquidate the provincial funds that are good. There is a demand from the IMF and the national government for these funds that they say are privileged and they want to destroy them,” he added.
He then said that “it is a problem for all workers and we think that the fact of mobilizing is very important.”
Milei’s speech
On the other hand, the councilor of the Left Front emphasized who he believes are the beneficiaries of this type of policies: “There is the money laundering, there is the reduction of personal assets, all things that point to a government that has no qualms about having a speech that is absolutely at odds with the most basic reality. They say that the rich are hit, but it is a festival for the rich of this country who are having the party of their lives.”
“Milei said that retirees in dollars earn a lot and that they are fine. I think that this speech falls flat on its face. During the campaign Milei said that he was not going to touch the retirees and today the fake surplus that they present is explained by the adjustment to the retirees and that is why he is so furious against such a limited law,” he said.
He then pointed out that “it’s all well and good to have a lot of resources in your favour, but at some point the reality of not making ends meet, of not being able to pay for medicines, of people choosing what to buy, has consequences.”
“We hope that this consequence will be positive in the sense of getting organised, of participating, and that’s why the mobilisation on Wednesday in a pensioners’ organisation is taking place and I think it’s very interesting,” he indicated at the end of the first stage.
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