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BW: But I m asking you an emotional question

JM: Well, I don t need to deal with emotions. I just talk about figures and reality. Not about emotions.

BW: But for the family that says, I can t afford food, and you give them extremely sophisticated economic explanations full of data and they say to you, I can t afford food. When am I going to be able to?

JM: First, today 15 percent of the people are extreme poor, so they can t meet their basic needs. If we had pursued the things that were being done, there would be 60 percent extreme poor today, which would have been a true catastrophe. Therefore, you can t fall into the fallacy of paradise. If you re going to compare me with a paradise, well, of course, life will always be horrible. Second, today inflation for food is way below the evolution of wages, so in terms of food, salaries are rising tremendously.

This is the first time in 25 years that the majority of people believe that inflation will come down, and some even say that there will be a deflation. So it s working. People can see that.

If the media can t see that, if they lie about what we re doing, that s a problem of the media, who are telling stories because they no longer have government money. But reality hits them in the face all of the time. I understand that I am hideous for the mass media because I have taken away government money from them. I do really believe in the free press, and when the press gets money from the government, it s not free. It s enslaved by the state. So we have taken away government-paid advertising, and this is why they tell lies. 

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