More like 0.3%. A lot of people are going to be unemployed because of this. Also, they’re giving gibs as a form of compensation to transsexuals above a certain age for the “hardships they’ve faced”. Meanwhile, gay and bisexual people were not allowed to serve openly in Argentina’s military until 2009. Do personnel unfairly discharged before then get any compensation? Keep in mind that 2009 is a very late year to be lifting a ban on GLB military personnel for a country that claims to be gay friendly like Argentina. And I thought it was weird enough that the U.K. and Germany kept their military bans in place until 2000.

Isn’t the Argentine civil service already infamously corrupt and inefficient?

Not sure how, but sometimes I feel like Ireland’s civil service could give Argentina’s a run for its money. The majority of staff in our public healthcare system are admins and office workers as opposed to doctors, nurses or surgeons. Our judges give have more sympathy for criminals than they do for victims. Public transport is prone to strikes because of poor management. Our military is dangerously underfunded; our navy is too small to patrol our waters to prevent drug cartels from bringing drugs and crime into our country, and our air corps personnel have to get trained by American airmen. Most of our civil servants got their jobs because of nepotism. Obviously, we weren’t that bad in 1973, when we joined the EU (then EEC), because I’d doubt we’d be allowed to join now if we weren’t already in.