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Rousseff's supporters fit the most with the profile of the average Brazil voter
The average Brazilian voter for this coming October presidential election is between 25 and 34 years old, has on average a high school education and a low monthly family income, equivalent to 618 US dollars. He lives in the Southeast region of the vast country, in a small town with fewer than 50,000 inhabitants. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesDilma 2014
Mar 10th, 2014 - 10:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Lula 2018
Lula 2022
Jack Baunilha 2199
Poor and Dumb
Mar 10th, 2014 - 10:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0No wonder they keep electing Marxist Monkeys
Delighted to see Rousseff in the lead - the only party, in my living memory, that has actually managed to bridge the gap between rich and poor in my country.
Mar 10th, 2014 - 10:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0And nope, I am not your average Worker's Party voter, quite the opposite - from the elite (sorry, not my fault), but I can't help but notice how much Brazil has improved in the past decade.
To the Elections, via the World Cup!
2014 - What a year...
I wonder why poor people care that there is a gap between rich and poor? I don't care if Bill Gates has more money than me. Live your life and stop being so jealous maybe put the effort into an education or more work and stop whining and someone will hire you.
Mar 11th, 2014 - 12:43 am - Link - Report abuse 0@3:
Mar 11th, 2014 - 04:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0The “bridge” in question is the assimilation of many of the poor into a political design that has as its main objective the exploitation and disenfranchisement of our creators of capital, who can be found in all social classes. Therefore, it is by no manner of means something an honest and intelligent Brazilian would celebrate.
Lula and Dilma have transformed politics in Brazil. A return to the status quo ante is no longer possible.
Mar 11th, 2014 - 05:47 am - Link - Report abuse 0@3GringaBrazilien
Mar 11th, 2014 - 05:54 am - Link - Report abuse 0“managed to bridge the gap between rich and poor in my country”
Spoken like a true pseudo-intellectual.
I'm not part of the elite, like you. I've worked low paying laborer jobs my whole life. I ought to be a member of the “Workers Party”. I can't stand penny pinching employers who think their workers are second class serfs and ought to be paid enough to buy some soup and some toilet paper, no more. And then, throw those workers out like trash the very second they aren't needed anymore, without any warning.
But how can anyone with a brain not see that the “close the income gap” construct doesn't make any sense.
I just want to ask.
What do you think would be an equitable and fair distribution of income. What would be the ideal amount of money a rich person should make?
Should there be a 100% tax after a certain level of income is reached? I think France has considered a 75% tax on income after a certain limit.
Would you be willing to give up 100% of your earnings after you reach a certain amount of income? Would you continue to want to work at that point?
Free time seems a whole bunch more preferable to putting up with a whole lot of high level stress, if I don't get paid good money for my trouble.
Does it make any sense to continue working and producing things of value to society when you are no longer being compensated for it?
Could we close the gap by making lower earners work more and make more money? Wouldn't that provide more net benefits than discouraging big contributors to society from contributing more?
Human beings have huge potential, do you agree? Could we encourage that potential in lower earners rather than discourage that potential in higher earners?
Could we improve educational standards for lower income earners so they are all capable of contributing and earning more money?
No, but we could bring working days down to 6 hours/day and ensure everybody has a job. Make schools equal in their accesibility, hence giving everybody an equal start and possibility.
Mar 11th, 2014 - 07:39 am - Link - Report abuse 0If you want two jobs it's entirely up to you...
Brazil has really turned into a much better country for its people.
Mar 11th, 2014 - 11:07 am - Link - Report abuse 0GringaBrazilien, the problem is that Brazil has become a lot worse for the people of the Anglosphera.
So they are worried about the loss of their colonies of exploitation.
The truth is that we are coming out of the hole and they are falling into the abyss.
The rest is conversation of cry baby when he loses the lollipop.
9. If that statement were true you wouldn't have the military patrolling the slums nor mass burglaries on your beaches.
Mar 11th, 2014 - 11:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0You are heading right back into the sh*thole you've been for the last 200 yrs.
I hope you liked your brief time in the sun.
I'm happy when I read stories like this. An North-American company that was not enough to survive in the competitive Brazilian market. I see the whole North American market with a glaring lack of competitiveness. I think you should fix your house first before talking about the dirt of others.
Mar 11th, 2014 - 12:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.cleveland.com/business/index.ssf/2014/03/ddr_corp_signs_deal_to_sell_br.html
The Germans will be more reliable.
The competitive “shopping mall” business? Bahahahha
Mar 11th, 2014 - 12:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0my read is they are getting out while the getting is still good.
It is predicted, at least in the civilized world, that shopping malls as we know them now won't exist in the next decade.
Who knows or cares what happens in jungles though.
11. I think it is sad that you think your country is still growing. It is going to be a huge shock when it starts to collapse. Looks to Argentina to see your immediate future.
My advice is stop electing monkeys to run your economy.
@11:
Mar 11th, 2014 - 01:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0In the Brazilian “market”, competition for government favours plays a much more significant role than competition for consumer preference. Therefore, down here, when a business goes belly up, you can safely bet that there are political factors at work. In fact, if the business is owned by Americans, you can bet 100% of your savings, as the ruling party is fanatically Americanophobic. Besides, the relative lack of competitiveness in the country you love to hate (relative to previous decades of its history, not relative to our pitiful present) is the outcome of the application of the same kind of recipe dimwits like you have been championing since the times of Getúlio Vargas.
Some of what you have written is true, though: after being digested by the ruling party, Brazilians like you are indeed coming out of a hole.
@3 GringaB:
Mar 11th, 2014 - 01:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Why do you call yourself a 'Gringa', if you also refer to Brasil as 'my country'?
Just curious as to your background....
“a low monthly family income, equivalent to 618 US dollars.”
Mar 11th, 2014 - 02:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Much higher compare to the average joe and joanne that are on food stamps (average value is US $100 a month...shamefully the number of people on food stamps is above 50 million and rising).
Dilma is going to win. Why? The man (Aceio neves, something like that) of the opposition has no agenda, no plans and he offers nothing new to the population. There are not much differences between the left, center and rightwing parties in Brazil.
If the politics in Brazil function with clientelism and populism then yes its likely they will follow the Argentine road. Having said that there is more stronger republican institutions in Brazil than in Argentina, and the executive doesn't hold that much power as Argentine presidents do... but I dont know enough about the political landscape of Brazil to further comment
Mar 11th, 2014 - 05:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Average income of US$ 618/month, lack of schooling, concentrated in the northeast of Brazil (where the government handouts are massive).....yeh, that more or less describes the voter of the PT (Dilmasshole and Lullasshole). Unfortunately the profile of Dilma's followers is nothing to be proud of, the great majority just being a bunch of ignorant people, incapable of thinking further than their next meal, and all manipulated.
Mar 12th, 2014 - 06:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Am not going to waste any time on the BRASILEIRO's comments, as they are typical of the envy displayed part of the lower class, who just want to sponge off the taxpayer.
Now, the GringaBrazilien@3, is - at least so she claims - from the 'elite', but yet she supports the PT...not surprising really, as there are quite a few well-to-do Brazilians who support the PT, not because they believe in Dilma's fake “good” intentions, but because they can reap benefits from the government by appearing to be sympathizers of the PT and their policies. Difficult to find a more despicable person that these 'fake' well doers. A good example of sucking up to Lulla and due to this gaining all sorts of favours, is the notorious Eike Batista....even all the billions Lulla showered upon him, couldn't avoid the demise of his ambitions and his empire due to his incompetence.
Maybe GringaBrazilien, probably living in Paris, off stolen money - which is not HER fault...as it was her father, not her, that plundered the public coffers - will go down the drain as well. And, if she thinks that the increase in rampant corruption in the high echelons of the Federal Government, and in street crime in all Brazilian cities over the 'past decade', are signs of improvement, she needs a brain transplant....but I wouldn't get too excited if I were her, when the lower classes wake up - and one day they will - I wouldn't go around bragging about being part of the “elite”, as she so futilely claims now.
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