At the University of Chicago, José Luis Espert questioned Aerolineas Argentinas: “It is more expensive than NASA”

In the middle of his trip through the United States, the national deputy Joseph Louis Espert He met an Argentine researcher from NASA and took the opportunity to launch a Chicana from the University of Chicago, an emblematic place for liberal economists. He posted a video on Twitter of him with the engineer and titled it: “Aerolineas Argentinas, more expensive than NASA”.

In the video, the economist introduces Michael San Martin and asks him about his work in the US space agency and the costs of the mission in which he participated. “Curiositythe mission I worked on recently, landed in 2012. It took seven years to get to Mars and more than eight years its development, from 8 to 10 years I would say, with a cost of 2,500,500 million dollars in that period”pointed out the researcher before Espert’s consultation.

“2500 million dollars in eight years to send a probe to Mars, Aerolineas Argentinas loses 800 million dollars per year”, answered the deputy quickly and calculated: “So in eight years we would have spent $6.4 billion, at least two and a half times what it cost to send a probe to Mars, Sirs”.

As published THE NATIONAerolineas Argentinas has a cost of two million dollars a day so that it would reach about 730 million a year.

The deputy traveled to Chicago to participate in the conference “Improbable conversations for a possible Argentina” at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. There he met Patricia Bullrich, who added this stop to his tour of the United States. “A pleasure to share a panel with Patricia Bullrich at the conference ‘Improbable conversations for a possible Argentina’ for Masters Argentina”, was the message with which Espert accompanied the photo he tweeted with the leader of Pro.

He also added photos with the students who organized the conference and at the University of Chicago, as part of his tour of the city. “At the entrance of the UChicago School of Economics, the most Nobel Prize winner, mother of UCEMA, cradle of my Economics teachers from my Master’s to Doctorate. Great pride and joy,” she noted.

It is not the first time that the deputy points against Argentinian airlines. As part of his recipe to reduce the fiscal deficit, Espert usually mentions that the state company should close.

“It seems absurd to me once again to reload the ink on the poor private sector, because this reduction in energy subsidies that is the key to the reduction in spending in the program with the Fund is simply tariffs and the other arm is going to be more control of the AFIP. The political body, well thank you. No closure of airlines [Argentinas], there is no dismissal of gnocchi, there is no reduction of ministries, there is no less co-participation for unpresentables. Public spending never goes down here.said in an interview with THE NATION, consulted for the agreement with the International Monetary Fund.

Along the same lines, he repeated his formula to lower public spending. He told LN +: “You can’t lower the deficit just with tariffs. Close airlines [Argentinas]fire the public employees who are gnocchireduce the country’s bureaucracy, send less money to [Gildo] Insfran Y [Jorge] Captainich and let them figure it out on their own if they want to build an empire in their provinces.”

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