January 19, 2024 • 9 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Today, I impress him to inform you that the Western
world is facing a significant threat. It is in danger
because those who are supposed to defend the values of
the Western world are co opted by a world that
inevitably leads to socialism and consequently to poverty and economic deprivation.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
That is Javier Mila. That's actually a translation. The new
president of Argentina gave a speech at Davos, the gathering
of the masters of the universe who actually run the world,
the economic superpower companies and people and thinkers.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
And I've grasped that the libertarian crowd really digs him.
He calls himself a libertarian and like Reason magazine in
people like that are digging his act.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Yeah, I would say anybody who is a force toward liberty,
whatever they call themselves, is a friend of mine. Given
what he spoke about and what we all observe around
us in the West, have a bunch of quotes from
him from his speech, fantastic. It struck me in rereading
it that it's the sort of thing that in days
(01:04):
gone by would be reprinted onto pamphlets and tracts and
hand it out in the street and lots and lots
of people would have copies of it and that sort
of thing. I'm certainly hoping it goes as viral as
it appears to be, and I hope it touches some people.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Who don't think in this way.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
There's a danger preaching to the choir, certainly in the
modern world.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Well, this guy, by the way, and I first talked
about him on the air when I came across that
thing about all his cloned dogs, which I find so interesting,
is an interesting dude.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
But he.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Has been teaching university courses in macroeconomics, economic growth, microeconomics,
and mathematics for economists, and he's the author of many
books on economics. Or you can go with game show
hosts and lifetime politicians and community organizers and a variety
of other people.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
For your president's right, right. So I want to hit
you with part of his speech. I wish we could
do the whole thing, but it's tadlong, it's absolutely fantastic.
And then I want to give you a forehead slapping
example of exactly what he's talking about. But so it
starts out, the Western world is in danger, and it
is in danger because those who are supposed to have defended.
(02:16):
The values of the West are co opted by a
vision of the world, and it exorably leads to socialism
and therefore to poverty. Unfortunately, in recent decades, motivated by
some well meaning individuals willing to help others and others
motivated by the wish to belong to a privileged caste,
the main leaders of the Western world have abandoned the
model of freedom for different versions of what we call collectivism.
(02:38):
We are here to tell you that collectivist experiments are
never the solution of the problems that afflict the citizens
of the world. Rather, they are the root cause. Do
believe me no one better place than us Argentines to
testify to these two points. And he describes how when
they adopted an American style version of freedom in eighteen sixty,
(02:59):
in thirty five, they became a leading economic power of
the world. Then when they embraced collectivism over the course
of the last four hundred years, they dropped to one
hundred and fortieth globally in terms of their economy. He continues,
since there is no doubt that free enterprise capitalism capitalism
is superior in productive terms, the left wing public opinion
(03:22):
has attacked capitalism alleging matters of morality.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
This is what I'm always saying.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
They come at you with moral arguments, but they don't
have morality.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
They just want power. He goes on.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
They say that capitalism is evil because it's individualistic, and
that collectivism is good because it's altruistic of course with
the money of others. So they therefore advocate for social justice.
But this concept, which in the developed world became fashionable
in recent times, in my country has been a constant
and political discourse for over eighty years. The problem is
that social justice is not just and it doesn't contribute
(03:56):
either to the general well being. Quite on the contrary,
it's an intrinsically unfair idea because it's violent. It's unjust
because the state is financed through tax and taxes are
collected coercively. Or can any one of us say they
voluntarily pay taxes, which means that the state is financed
through coercion, and that the higher the tax burden, the
(04:17):
higher the coercion, and the lower the freedom. Unfortunately, these
harmful ideas have taken a stronghold in our society. Neo
Marxists have managed to co opt the common sense of
the Western world and this they have achieved by appropriating
the media, culture, universities and also international organizations. The latter
case is the most serious one, probably because these are
(04:37):
institutions that have an enormous influence on political and economic
decisions of the countries that make up the multilateral organizations.
This guy's writing style, now, granted this is a translation,
but his balance between being accurate, thorough and understandable to
the average person is.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
A plus.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
It reminds me of a Tim Sandifer or people like him.
He has that ability. It's probably because he was a
teacher for a very long time. Right, how did he
get elected?
Speaker 3 (05:12):
I probably should have paid more attention to why people
voted for him than all his interesting you know, dating
actresses and singers and cloning dogs and all that sort
of stuff, and his tussled hair and groovy, groovy sideburns. Yeah, because,
as he will explain, the collectivist experiment experiment in Argentina
(05:34):
descended and descended to the point where everybody was miserable.
Their economy sucks, standard of living.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
This is terrible because they've descended almost fully into a
socialist hell and and people were so miserable. They said,
you know what, we're getting all these handouts that everybody
promised us would be wonderful. Well it's not wonderful. This sucks.
So we're going to take a chance on this guy.
People got to the point where they said, enough of
the giant welfare state.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
This isn't working. If you can believe that.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
And I'm not an expert on Argentinian government and politics,
I'm going to start studying it.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
But that was his message.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
He has five English mastiffs, all cloned after the original
dog that he was so in love with that he
called a segment Joe tries to save the Western world
and Jack talks about doggies that he calls his children.
He's not married, has never been married, and he refers
to these as his children. And that's the only group
(06:32):
of things that he thanked on election night. When what
he wanted his dogs, He thanks his dogs, who are
his children.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Yes, I love each other.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Yeah, I do not retract my comment of Earl here,
but I do grant you that's kind of weird. So
let me let me plunge on a little bit because
it's so good. Fortunately, there are more and more of
us who are daring to make our voices heard because
we see that if we don't truly and decisively fight
against these ideas, the only possible fate is for us
to have increasing levels of state regulation, socialism, poverty, and
(07:05):
less freedom, and therefore we'll be having worse standards of living.
The West has unfortunately already started to go along this path.
I know to many it may sound ridiculous to suggest
that the West has turned to socialism, but it's only
ridiculous if you limit yourself to the traditional economic definition
of socialism. Absolutely, I'm always saying that, well, yeah, actually
I am too. Stop with the political theory definitions.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
That's not the way people use them anyway.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
That says it's an economic system where the state owns
the means of production. This definition, in my view, should
be updated in the light of current circumstances. Today, states
don't need to directly control the means of production to
control every aspect of the lives of individuals. With tools
such as printing money, debt subsidies, controlling the interest rate,
price controls, and regulations to correct the so called market failures,
(07:54):
they can control the lives and fates of millions of individuals.
This is how we come to the point where by
using different names or guises. A good deal of the
generally accepted political offers in most Western countries are collectivist variants.
Whether they proclaim to be openly communist, fascists, Nazis, socialists,
social democrats, socialists, democrats, Christians, Christian democrats, Neo Kanesian's progressive
(08:16):
populist nationalists, or globalists.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
At bottom, there are no major differences.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
They all say that the state should steer all aspects
of the lives of individuals. Holy cow, hey law, amen, brother,
I have a new hero. And this goes on, and
we will post it in its entirety for you at
Armstrong and getty dot com. And he makes the case
quite thoroughly. He gets into the case of Argentina as
an empirical demonstration that no matter how rich you may be,
(08:43):
or how much you may have in terms of natural resources,
how skilled your population may be or educator, or how
many bars of gold you have in the central bank,
if measures are adopted that hinder the free functioning of markets,
free competition, free price systems, if you hinder trade, if
you attack private property, the only possible faith is poverty.
(09:03):
I would like to raise him on my shoulders and
carry him around and chant hay law, hey law.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
Please don't find.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
This guy sexing up a goat or doing something loathsome please,
although keep in mind how fabulously unthinkably wealthy and powerful
the powerful become in socialist systems. They wear everything they
can conceive of to bring this guy down.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Where's our full Vin Scully clip? Michael, that's the best
description of socialism during a baseball game that I've ever heard,
certainly in the top ten.
Today, I impress him to inform you that the Western
world is facing a significant threat. It is in danger
because those who are supposed to defend the values of
the Western world are co opted by a world that
inevitably leads to socialism and consequently to poverty and economic deprivation.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
That is Javier Mila. That's actually a translation. The new
president of Argentina gave a speech at Davos, the gathering
of the masters of the universe who actually run the world,
the economic superpower companies and people and thinkers.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
And I've grasped that the libertarian crowd really digs him.
He calls himself a libertarian and like Reason magazine in
people like that are digging his act.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Yeah, I would say anybody who is a force toward liberty,
whatever they call themselves, is a friend of mine. Given
what he spoke about and what we all observe around
us in the West, have a bunch of quotes from
him from his speech, fantastic. It struck me in rereading
it that it's the sort of thing that in days
(01:04):
gone by would be reprinted onto pamphlets and tracts and
hand it out in the street and lots and lots
of people would have copies of it and that sort
of thing. I'm certainly hoping it goes as viral as
it appears to be, and I hope it touches some people.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Who don't think in this way.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
There's a danger preaching to the choir, certainly in the
modern world.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Well, this guy, by the way, and I first talked
about him on the air when I came across that
thing about all his cloned dogs, which I find so interesting,
is an interesting dude.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
But he.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Has been teaching university courses in macroeconomics, economic growth, microeconomics,
and mathematics for economists, and he's the author of many
books on economics. Or you can go with game show
hosts and lifetime politicians and community organizers and a variety
of other people.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
For your president's right, right. So I want to hit
you with part of his speech. I wish we could
do the whole thing, but it's tadlong, it's absolutely fantastic.
And then I want to give you a forehead slapping
example of exactly what he's talking about. But so it
starts out, the Western world is in danger, and it
is in danger because those who are supposed to have defended.
(02:16):
The values of the West are co opted by a
vision of the world, and it exorably leads to socialism
and therefore to poverty. Unfortunately, in recent decades, motivated by
some well meaning individuals willing to help others and others
motivated by the wish to belong to a privileged caste,
the main leaders of the Western world have abandoned the
model of freedom for different versions of what we call collectivism.
(02:38):
We are here to tell you that collectivist experiments are
never the solution of the problems that afflict the citizens
of the world. Rather, they are the root cause. Do
believe me no one better place than us Argentines to
testify to these two points. And he describes how when
they adopted an American style version of freedom in eighteen sixty,
(02:59):
in thirty five, they became a leading economic power of
the world. Then when they embraced collectivism over the course
of the last four hundred years, they dropped to one
hundred and fortieth globally in terms of their economy. He continues,
since there is no doubt that free enterprise capitalism capitalism
is superior in productive terms, the left wing public opinion
(03:22):
has attacked capitalism alleging matters of morality.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
This is what I'm always saying.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
They come at you with moral arguments, but they don't
have morality.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
They just want power. He goes on.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
They say that capitalism is evil because it's individualistic, and
that collectivism is good because it's altruistic of course with
the money of others. So they therefore advocate for social justice.
But this concept, which in the developed world became fashionable
in recent times, in my country has been a constant
and political discourse for over eighty years. The problem is
that social justice is not just and it doesn't contribute
(03:56):
either to the general well being. Quite on the contrary,
it's an intrinsically unfair idea because it's violent. It's unjust
because the state is financed through tax and taxes are
collected coercively. Or can any one of us say they
voluntarily pay taxes, which means that the state is financed
through coercion, and that the higher the tax burden, the
(04:17):
higher the coercion, and the lower the freedom. Unfortunately, these
harmful ideas have taken a stronghold in our society. Neo
Marxists have managed to co opt the common sense of
the Western world and this they have achieved by appropriating
the media, culture, universities and also international organizations. The latter
case is the most serious one, probably because these are
(04:37):
institutions that have an enormous influence on political and economic
decisions of the countries that make up the multilateral organizations.
This guy's writing style, now, granted this is a translation,
but his balance between being accurate, thorough and understandable to
the average person is.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
A plus.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
It reminds me of a Tim Sandifer or people like him.
He has that ability. It's probably because he was a
teacher for a very long time. Right, how did he
get elected?
Speaker 3 (05:12):
I probably should have paid more attention to why people
voted for him than all his interesting you know, dating
actresses and singers and cloning dogs and all that sort
of stuff, and his tussled hair and groovy, groovy sideburns. Yeah, because,
as he will explain, the collectivist experiment experiment in Argentina
(05:34):
descended and descended to the point where everybody was miserable.
Their economy sucks, standard of living.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
This is terrible because they've descended almost fully into a
socialist hell and and people were so miserable. They said,
you know what, we're getting all these handouts that everybody
promised us would be wonderful. Well it's not wonderful. This sucks.
So we're going to take a chance on this guy.
People got to the point where they said, enough of
the giant welfare state.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
This isn't working. If you can believe that.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
And I'm not an expert on Argentinian government and politics,
I'm going to start studying it.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
But that was his message.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
He has five English mastiffs, all cloned after the original
dog that he was so in love with that he
called a segment Joe tries to save the Western world
and Jack talks about doggies that he calls his children.
He's not married, has never been married, and he refers
to these as his children. And that's the only group
(06:32):
of things that he thanked on election night. When what
he wanted his dogs, He thanks his dogs, who are
his children.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Yes, I love each other.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Yeah, I do not retract my comment of Earl here,
but I do grant you that's kind of weird. So
let me let me plunge on a little bit because
it's so good. Fortunately, there are more and more of
us who are daring to make our voices heard because
we see that if we don't truly and decisively fight
against these ideas, the only possible fate is for us
to have increasing levels of state regulation, socialism, poverty, and
(07:05):
less freedom, and therefore we'll be having worse standards of living.
The West has unfortunately already started to go along this path.
I know to many it may sound ridiculous to suggest
that the West has turned to socialism, but it's only
ridiculous if you limit yourself to the traditional economic definition
of socialism. Absolutely, I'm always saying that, well, yeah, actually
I am too. Stop with the political theory definitions.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
That's not the way people use them anyway.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
That says it's an economic system where the state owns
the means of production. This definition, in my view, should
be updated in the light of current circumstances. Today, states
don't need to directly control the means of production to
control every aspect of the lives of individuals. With tools
such as printing money, debt subsidies, controlling the interest rate,
price controls, and regulations to correct the so called market failures,
(07:54):
they can control the lives and fates of millions of individuals.
This is how we come to the point where by
using different names or guises. A good deal of the
generally accepted political offers in most Western countries are collectivist variants.
Whether they proclaim to be openly communist, fascists, Nazis, socialists,
social democrats, socialists, democrats, Christians, Christian democrats, Neo Kanesian's progressive
(08:16):
populist nationalists, or globalists.
Speaker 4 (08:18):
At bottom, there are no major differences.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
They all say that the state should steer all aspects
of the lives of individuals. Holy cow, hey law, amen, brother,
I have a new hero. And this goes on, and
we will post it in its entirety for you at
Armstrong and getty dot com. And he makes the case
quite thoroughly. He gets into the case of Argentina as
an empirical demonstration that no matter how rich you may be,
(08:43):
or how much you may have in terms of natural resources,
how skilled your population may be or educator, or how
many bars of gold you have in the central bank,
if measures are adopted that hinder the free functioning of markets,
free competition, free price systems, if you hinder trade, if
you attack private property, the only possible faith is poverty.
(09:03):
I would like to raise him on my shoulders and
carry him around and chant hay law, hey law.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
Please don't find.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
This guy sexing up a goat or doing something loathsome please,
although keep in mind how fabulously unthinkably wealthy and powerful
the powerful become in socialist systems. They wear everything they
can conceive of to bring this guy down.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Where's our full Vin Scully clip? Michael, that's the best
description of socialism during a baseball game that I've ever heard,
certainly in the top ten.
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