Going back to econ 101, though we say in the context of inflation that the government is just "printing money", the truth is that governments are always printing money. In the US the reserves that are collected by the Fed are burned and reprinted. The monetary system is not the gold standard - governments print and also take money out of the market in order to achieve a desired money supply. And anyone familiar with the ideo of the money multiplier of banks, a US institution, knows that it goes beyond this yet the US still has very low rates of inflation. So printing money does NOT cause inflation and is an every day affair... printing too much money: yes, it is inflationary. Furthermore, these crazy allegations of Kristina trying to print more money to buy votes is more than a bit outlandish. The government, while trying, at times via coercion (= not cool), is trying to downplay inflation, as speculation and distrust plays a huge role in increasing inflationary tendencies, but also has obviously realized that its a huge problem and are attempting to do what they can, in line with their economic model, to safeguard the future - cutting state subsidies, etc... But at the core of it, the omnipresent idea on these boards that the government whore themselves out for votes is very very offensive to the argentine people. when you spend time in temperly or lomos de zamora - outside of recoleta and palermo - you see that people don't get on buses to go to kirchnerista rallies for a choripan or a stipend, like everyone ALWAYS insinuates here, but because they are animated by the political movement. I imagine that a lot of people on this board hire cleaning ladies - why don't you ask them what they think of the government, and then refrain from attributing it to uneducation or misunderstanding. And lets face it, class interests are different throughout the country. Can we drop the "christina buying votes" thing, because if we follow that line of cynisism we're going to have to start saying, obamacare was simply buying votes and political pandering and, on the other side, saying that bush and the wars abroad weren't genuine and were only to buy votes. Or that politicians who oppose abortion in the US don't care about the subject but instead recognize the popular sentiment and capitalize on the electoral pool. Its too simple to reduce it to such an extreme - "the Kirchners have no political or ideological values and simply do what is most pragmatic to stay in power" - its absurd.
Having said all of this, I by no means am convinced by the Kirchnerist movement, but we have to try to understand it as what it is in its full extent - not using cynicism and class interests to completely negate or nullify it.