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Rousseff's message deafened by pot-banging, horn-blowing and messages calling for her resignation
President Dilma Rousseff appealed to Brazilians on Sunday to back fiscal austerity policies, while saying that the belt-tightening will last as long as needed and results will only start showing at the end of this year. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesIs this the beginning of the end for Dilma?
Mar 09th, 2015 - 08:06 am - Link - Report abuse 0Has she run out of 'spending other people's money' ?
Dilma is certainly between a rock and a hard place.
Mar 09th, 2015 - 09:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0However, one has to praise her for attempting to actually be fiscally responsible - austerity and restraint!
She could just pront money and jolly them along.
I imagine, with her big Olympic commitments for infrastructure, the IOC are looking pretty closely. Dilma is painted into a corner. SA pride is at stake, esp. after the calamity of the World Cup - Argentina losing and letting an EU country win.
Dilma's Day is over. This is the beginning of the End for her.
Mar 09th, 2015 - 10:26 am - Link - Report abuse 0Anybody else notice that she has gone quiet on her previous support for the Chavistas in Vene-Cuba?
ooh!
Why is that do you think?
That's a lie! The few people who made noise during the speech of President were of the richest neighborhoods in São Paulo, Rio and Curitiba.
Mar 09th, 2015 - 11:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0Brazil supports Dilma!
Good riddance to the twat when she goes .
Mar 09th, 2015 - 12:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0She had an opportunity to bring the people with her by admitting the mistakes made in her first crack as President and she blew it.
Mar 09th, 2015 - 12:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0That alone is likely to be her undoing with thinking people, if any still exist in Brazil and have not upped sticks and left..
Brasso, that DOES NOT INCLUDE YOU!
Shall I say it, yes I think so
Mar 09th, 2015 - 01:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Told Ya.
You can not give “free” money away to the mob and expect them to go along with it when you have to take it away.
Never going to happen
In the end they will try to depreciate their way out of this catastrophe but it won't work.
Tried and true Marxists and they'll never learn
If they are lucky the Military will shoot all the corrupted pols, their families and confiscate all their stolen loot.
Alas Brazilians aren't lucky.
No one supports Dilma and this socialist jaunt. At last election PT received 52% of the vote, imagine what that would be now, 30%, 20%. Died in the wool Brasshole might be the only one that would continue to vote for these idiots.
Mar 09th, 2015 - 01:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 052% but how much of that was bought?
Mar 09th, 2015 - 02:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I expect quite a bit
Like in Venezuela and Argentina
Bought on polling day and bought well before then with payments like bolsa familia which gives crumbs to keep the poorer Brazilian voter on their side i.e. most of the northeast.
Mar 09th, 2015 - 03:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Whew the BReal is taking a dive.
Mar 09th, 2015 - 03:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Argentina will have to compensate for the huge correction or lose every sale they have into that country.
Dilma Roussef is being relentlessly demonized by the right wing press, a wholly owned propaganda machine of the economic elite in Brasil, who do not want things to change. Any fool who really wants to know what has happened in Brasil needs to read the political history a little more closely or stop gorging on the whit that GLOBO et al, daily feed the public.in an attempt to discredit the government.
Mar 09th, 2015 - 03:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0These people have continuously covered of the corruption and excesses of PSDB and other conservative parties, while pretending that corruption was invented by PT.
A better source of information would be CARTA MAIOR, which is more balanced.
Further, the elite do not want past offenders investigated because the results will show their own involvement. The recently release Lava-Jata report includes names of some PT offenders, and they are not getting special treatment, If Dilma had something to hide, she would not pursue this investigation. Unlike her predecessors, the PT government has no problem exposing corruption, though the media is still trying to play down any of its political pets. And so, the media incites and sends to the streets those deluded people, like American tea party idiots to beg, quite literally for an impeachment and military intervention. Those beside he elite who have the most to gain with a new dictatorship would be rich investors from the USA who ae dying to have Petrobras privatizeed for their own gain and to the detriment of Brasil. Rich people anywhere in the world would rather die (or omit genocide vicariously) rather than se anyone they think is unworthy to have an opportunity to succeed.
he rich have suppoted every fascist regime in history, and for what?
Those who demonize Dilma in comments, be careful what you wish for. A new dictatorship in Brasil will do more harm than good, and those who think they are well protected with their money and their influence are doomed to fail. and when they do, and great will be their fall.
@4BrazzoBurro
Mar 09th, 2015 - 04:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“That's a lie” is it ???? where were you during the 'panelaço' ? in all the 5 cities, simultaneousy ? or in your smelly slum ?
Fbear
Mar 09th, 2015 - 06:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I have been careful what I wish for - for years.
Yet I still demonize Dilma with good cause.
The outcome may be a 'dictatorship'; we have a good model in Venezuela so I think it is unlikely that Brasil will go down that route.
But should I 'sit on my hands' and do nothing and say nothing?
No, I must bang the pans and wave the brushes to show my anger.
The country's governance has become more corrupt than it has ever been during the Lula/Rousseff P.T. years. The Mensalao and the Petrobras corruptions are just the external expressions of something much deeper - the malaise of Brasil.
What is the malaise? It is the *absolute* corruption applied to every individual in this sub-continent: you, me and everybody else.
We cannot avoid it because Lula managed his administrations to MAKE THIS THE OUTCOME.
We all accepted it, because 'the people voted for it'.
This is nor a God-given gift of the Brasilian (or any other) democracy.
People will vote for a monkey if you offer monkey nuts; people will vote for 'socialism' if you offer them a Bolsa Familia for life.
Those that rail against it bang their pans and shake their brooms but the 'uncountable poor' will *always* prevail at the ballot-box (and the electronic box is always right and unable to be re-counted).
Keep banging your pans
Keep shaking your brooms
This madness cannot last for ever.
As I have long said only people that net pay ( with some minor exceptions) into a gov't should be allowed the vote.
Mar 09th, 2015 - 06:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It would solve most of every country's ills.
The truth is: the middle-class protest did not have the desired range by demotucana opposition. Not at all. Both is true that the hashtag # DilmadaMulher, which was intended to support the trustee of this country was one of the most used by Internet users, to the point of joining the trending topics of Twitter. This occurred during the pronouncement of President Dilma Rousseff. The summarize: the drumsticks do not represent the majority of the Brazilian people, who gave Dilma more than 54 million votes. The cooking pots and coxismo happened only in affluent neighborhoods of some cities. Can protest; to blow, no. That's it.
Mar 09th, 2015 - 09:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Author: Davis Sena Filho
Davis Sena Filho is editor of the blog Palavra Livre
LULA 2018!
I don't see that catching far in the usa other than maybe the tea ballers. It's anti democracy....like the tea balling party.
Mar 09th, 2015 - 10:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 016.
Mar 09th, 2015 - 11:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I have a sugestion for you too.
Felipão DT do Brasil Qatar 2022!
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Mar 09th, 2015 - 11:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0hahaha
nononono
If you look at the map it can be seen that this is nothing more than a Sao Paulo phenomenon. I don't think that a few indolent “real middle class” people banging pots while lounging poolside constitutes a protest and certainly not a “deafening” one .
Mar 10th, 2015 - 02:37 am - Link - Report abuse 0Once again the socialists live firmly with their head up their derrier.
Mar 10th, 2015 - 03:25 am - Link - Report abuse 0There is so many problems going on in Brazil, the majority which supported PT of 52% in the election a short time ago has withered away substantially. People of all persuasions do not like Dilma Rousseff, she is very unpopular now, and it only seems that more and more people are fed up of the mismanagement of the Government.
I was too shocked to know she was widely shouted “COW” by protesters. Cows should never be compared to this thing that is president of Brazil. Cows are honest animals that feed billions around the world and should not be compared to such low moral person.
Mar 10th, 2015 - 07:13 am - Link - Report abuse 0@16 BrazzosBurros
Mar 10th, 2015 - 03:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“The truth is: the middle-class protest did not have the desired range by demotucana opposition”...
Really ?? It is obviously the PT's truth, that only admits to the truth when convenient for them..... the fact is that Dilmona is squirming in her pants, afraid of being kicked out, as she deserves to be.
@22 macsilvinho
Right on...it's not fair for the “COWS' to be compared to Dilma......she's just a fat B, up to her eyeballs in shite - president of the Petrobras Administration Council, Minister of ”Minas & Energia” from 2003 to 2010...in other words, the person in the best position to see that something was going radically wrong in the company...but what did she do about it ? she rolled over for Lula and said nothing...
Well put #23, and that's the whole point, now that the cupboard is bare and everything gone they are looking to the population to pay more and blame everyone else. Ahh yes the economic financial crisis from over 5 years ago is high on their list as an excuse. The incompetence of Dilma and PT has been unbelievable. The very people that they buy votes from i.e. the poor and working class are coming to realise they won't have a job soon and their rice and beans are double the price.
Mar 10th, 2015 - 06:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://en.mercopress.com/2015/03/09/rousseff-s-message-deafened-by-pot-banging-horn-blowing-and-messages-calling-for-her-resignation#comment385128: You forget that since the start of the first Lula administration the UN has removed Brazil from the World Hunger Map. This, and other achievements in nation building projects, are major successes not achieved under any previous administrations. And these achievements are the proper aims of any economy.
Mar 11th, 2015 - 02:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0#25 absolutely and that's a valid point you bring up, some things have improved, whether that be by luck of Lula or not, apparently extreme poverty has been increasing. However the point is here that Brazil is likely to take some big and fast steps backwards and likely effects are rather bad. The policies, actions and dodgy dealings the government has employed have only led to this abysmal situation. There has been little implementation of sustainable policy for the good of Brazil's long term future and now the chickens are coming home to roost.
Mar 11th, 2015 - 03:30 am - Link - Report abuse 0The chickens are coming home.
Mar 11th, 2015 - 08:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0It is a common saying.
Dilma has nothing left to offer.
Oooooh!
25. That's the kind of stupid stuff that Progressives pointed to about...Venezuela.
Mar 11th, 2015 - 11:41 am - Link - Report abuse 0Give it time, this is just the beginning of the downturn in Brazil and Marxism always brings hunger and misery in the end.
Just wait Brazil will be hungry again really soon.
@25 Hippy
Mar 11th, 2015 - 03:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Once again you choose to ignore the fact that it was the president PRIOR to Mr.Lula - FHC (Fernando Henrique Cardoso) - that cut inflation to bearable levels, and THAT was one of the main reasons that the salaries of the workers went further in buying more, and better food....so the effort to reduce hunger in Brazil, was already underway before Lula appeared on the scene. He may have supported that policy, which continued to benefit the general population, but you can be sure it was only for political reasons....Proof of this is his infamous promise that no Brazilian would ever go hungry again.....the “Fome Zero” (Zero Hunger) programme, which virtually won him the Presidency, failed miserably two years later due to corruption....Lula was, and is, no more than a dirty opportunist, and who lies about anything to suit 'his' reality of the moment.
As to the “achievements in nation building projects”, this can be summed up by the “PAC 1”, and “PAC 2”, programes for the “acceleration of growth”.....these two programmes together, had dozens of projects planned, to the tune of R$ 750 Billion (equivalent to USD 350 Billion at the time, 2007 and 2010) ; This programme was to have eliminated all the infrastructure bottlenecks in Brazil, in upto 10 years....but the truth unfortunately, is that about only 20 % (or slightly less) of the projects have actually been finished, and regarding the other 80%, no-one knows what's been done, and what's worse, a lot of the money has already left the public coffers.....now what ? No infrastructure, and the money has 'gone'.....It's the way of the Brazilian politicians...steal and shove propaganda lies down the people's throat. If that R$ 750 Billion had been spent correctly and efficiently, Brazil might not be in the dire straits that it is in now...
http://en.mercopress.com/2015/03/09/rousseff-s-message-deafened-by-pot-banging-horn-blowing-and-messages-calling-for-her-resignation#comment385223: I can remember that you wing-nuts where predicting the collapse of Brazil as a result of Lula's election. But, instead, the exact opposite has happened. You record is not good.
Mar 12th, 2015 - 02:41 am - Link - Report abuse 0Hepatia
Mar 12th, 2015 - 04:18 am - Link - Report abuse 0Argentina will belong to China within 25 years
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