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Congress upsets Rousseff: votes to boost pension benefits
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff saw allies and members of her own Workers’ Party challenge her in Congress by voting in favor of boosting pension benefits. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesThat's it Brazil. Keep building a welfare state that you can't afford and you aren't developed enough for.
May 16th, 2015 - 11:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0It amazes me how some developing countries believe the hype and literally self-sabotage.
Brazil with 770% of Australia's population has a GDP only 144%!
Their inflation is sky high and their growth has tanked. They're in a recession.
And they're voting in more welfare? Which they can't fund.
They have higher taxes than Australia, higher deficits than Australia and a larger government debt than Australia.
When will Brazil realise it is a developing country and it can't afford to spend like this?
Who said this would happen..
May 16th, 2015 - 11:44 am - Link - Report abuse 0me
They will always revert to type, they can't help themselves and the decade of growth was but an illusion.
Back to normal
Back to Statism
Back to Poverty for all.
We have the same problem here. Take take take and the welfare state doesn't want to work.
May 16th, 2015 - 11:48 am - Link - Report abuse 0Much easier to block the roads and bang drums every few weeks to get what you want.
Come on guys!
May 16th, 2015 - 12:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Why should the lower classes of politicians bend over for DumbAss Dilma when she has obviously benefitted from the corruption and they have not AND now they are expected to pay for it as well!
As far as they are concerned Brazil is huge and can afford it: D'oh!
Austral Elvis was complaining that the Unions are demanding at least a 305 increase but he wants it more in line with his reported inflation 20-27% BUT YPF board members received at 31% increase this year.
May 16th, 2015 - 01:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0He's a moron.
Here's a way to solve at least two problems at once. Cut off the internet. There, no more monitoring by the NSA. No need to spend billions of dollars trying to evolve a system that the NSA can't breach. For at least a week. And, in addition, little possibility of the population finding out how other populations live.
May 16th, 2015 - 01:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0This amendment has no chance of passing the Senate.
May 16th, 2015 - 03:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Skip, Australia is so insignificant that 80% of the world population does not know it exists.
#7
May 16th, 2015 - 05:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0OK show us where you obtained your figures. How many have heard of Brazil ?
I am sure there are still tribes living in the Amazon, whose land you have stolen, who have never heard of Brazil.
It still does not invalidate his figures.
@ 7 BRASSO
May 16th, 2015 - 05:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The fact that you never heard of Australia before you came on the board just proves the point that you lack education as well as brain cells.
@7 brASSHOLE
May 16th, 2015 - 06:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“This amendment has no chance of passing the Senate. ”
d'you really think so ? It'll probably pass and then fat D will have to veto it, costing her a few more popularity points....
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