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Folha: “President Rousseff's last chance to save her government”
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has one last chance to stem a growing political and economic crisis before being forced to step down, one of the country's leading daily newspapers said on Sunday. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rules16% of Brazilian exporters do not wish to receive the value of their exports in dollars. In 2014 that number is 11%. In 2008 there was no such number.
Sep 14th, 2015 - 11:27 am - Link - Report abuse 0At the same time, Brazil is highly protectionist and, as a result, exports are dropping off. Especially as Brazil is seen as closely associated with a strange, corrupt, criminal, larcenous, mendacious, wannabe warlike place. Maybe “Brazilian exporters” are just another Rousseff lie. Has Brazil got anything worth selling?
Sep 14th, 2015 - 12:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Meanwhile Lulu has an appointment with the police.
Brasshole, where are Brazil's added value exports. Brazil only selling iron ore and soya to China is going backwards!
Sep 14th, 2015 - 02:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@1 brASSHOLE, brASSHOLE, I'm getting tired of showing you what a brainwashed idiot you are...
Sep 14th, 2015 - 05:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“16% of Brazilian exporters do not wish to receive the value of their exports in dollars. In 2014 that number is 11%. In 2008 there was no such number”.....
First, what does your statement have to do with Dilma's imminent resignation or impeachment ? Or, are you just trying to change the subject ?
Second, your claim that exporters don't want USDollars, is NOT entirely correct. While there was an effort made 3 or 4 years ago, by some Latin American countries to trade in their own currencies, bypassing the Dollar because it made exports more expensive, today that is not the case. With the weak Real, the Dollar has made Brazilian exports competitive again, in certain markets, so your claim does not hold water. And IF, in your expert opinion of course, they don't want Dollars, what Do they want ? Argie Pesos ? Venezuelan 'Bolivares ' ? 'patacas' ??
That's alright Brasileiros. After peaking in 2011, the value of Brazil's exports has been trending down.
Sep 15th, 2015 - 01:07 am - Link - Report abuse 0So there will be less exporters to worry about.
Unfortunately you will still have Dilma who has proven grossly incompetent in managing Brazil. Unless she does what is good for the country and steps down, there is not going to be any great change in your country's direction.
Thankfully we don't have a US inspired presidential system like you and last night we got a new Prime Minister.
You see, we know we have difficult economic times ahead of us and the refusal of the Prime Minister to tackle those problems honestly meant he lost our support and without even needing to wait an entire year, the government listened and chose a new leader.
So deflect and change the subject all you want Brasileiros but it won't change that you have a government that is incompetent and cannot handle this crisis.
There is nothing about Brazil that says it can't take this crisis and come out stronger except that your government is preventing change.
You had a boom and it went bust. So did we. All booms bust eventually. It is how you handle the bust that is more important than handling a boom. Any idiot can handle a boom but it takes talent, conviction and foresight to handle a bust.
Dilma has none of this.
So enjoy your recession because it is going to get worse. Much worse. The bust caused the recession to start. How Dilma is making is last longer.
Who did you vote for Skip?....For PM that is?
Sep 15th, 2015 - 05:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://en.mercopress.com/2015/09/14/folha-president-rousseff-s-last-chance-to-save-her-government#comment414251: As I understand it “Skip” comes from Australia - a British country. And, as you well know, your queen does not allow you British to vote for an administration.
Sep 16th, 2015 - 04:14 am - Link - Report abuse 0Really? oh my!
Sep 16th, 2015 - 10:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0“As I understand it “Skip” comes from Australia - a British country”
Sep 16th, 2015 - 12:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Well again Hepatia proves that she really doesn't understand much at all. Aaah the marvels of the Argentinean education system-the joke that never stops giving.
Captain Poppy
So we don't actually vote for our PM here. The PM is the leader of the largest party in the House of Representatives. I think you might have an equivalent called a Majority Leader.
The actual role of the PM is not even in our constitution. Which is what makes the screaming newspaper headlines about our supposed instability so farcical.
Anyway, the current government is the Liberal-National Coalition - these are both centre-right parties. The opposition is centre-left (Labor). We have few politicians as far right as your Republicans and the Democrats down under would be right of centre and more aligned with the Liberal party.
So I have alway voted Liberal in federal elections even though I have always lived in safe Labor seats. However our senate is proportional representation so my vote has more effect.
In state elections I will vote for either depending on what is on offer. This is because the federal government controls the economy and state governments provide the social services.
At the last federal election, I voted Liberal and accepted that their leader, Tony Abbott, would become the PM. However I grew disillusioned with him. While he has done good things, he also proved much too conservative for me. On gay marriage and climate change, I felt that he was leading his party down dead ends for no reason. Abbott was leading his party to defeat at the next election. I know because even I wasn't going to vote for his party.
The elevation of Turnbull to the prime ministership means that the Liberals will win the next election which has made me very happy. They can move past these minor irritations of gay marriage and climate change and concentrate on reforming our economy as it transitions.
I learn from an Australian colleague that this latest coup has been caused by the poor state of the country's economy which is headed for recession if it is not already in one.
Sep 18th, 2015 - 02:27 am - Link - Report abuse 0Actually I know that you do not choose your PM.
Sep 18th, 2015 - 10:35 am - Link - Report abuse 0http://en.mercopress.com/2015/09/14/folha-president-rousseff-s-last-chance-to-save-her-government#comment414513: That surprises me. I find that you Brits are usually so ignorant about your own system and its democratic failures that I hear from you statements such as, “I voted for X to be premier.”
Sep 19th, 2015 - 02:08 am - Link - Report abuse 0But if you already knew that 'Skip' was not able to choose his PM why did you ask who he voted for? It can only be that you wanted to humiliate him by having him explain how primitive and undemocratic the British system is. And now that you have achieved this aim how do you feel? Yes, your smugness reveals to us all what you are - a bully and a sociopath. Traits that you British are well know for.
I don't feel humiliated by the question.
Sep 20th, 2015 - 10:59 am - Link - Report abuse 0Indeed the only humiliation I see on this thread is Hepatia.
British system? I don't live under a British system. I live under an Australian system.
We're a federation. Britain isn't.
We have an elected senate. Britain doesn't.
We have a Governor-General. Britain doesn't.
We have a House of Representatives. Britain doesn't.
Indeed our systems has much in common with the US system. Funnily enough because it is a hybrid based on the US and Britain.
Poor Hepatia. Struggling through the world with an Argentinean education.
Can't be easy. I mean she comes from a country that has coups all the time but thinks we just had one.... LOL.
coup
kuː/
noun
a sudden, violent, and illegal seizure of power from a government.
So the government seized power..... from..... itself?
Isn't that like trying to lick your elbow?
Aaaaannnd no. No recession. You must have us confused with Brazil..... or Argentina...... or Venezuela...... or Russia.
http://en.mercopress.com/2015/09/14/folha-president-rousseff-s-last-chance-to-save-her-government#comment414630: You British are like little children. You believe that if you close your eyes no one can see you. A quick scan of the news media in Australia will tell you that it is referred to as a coup there.
Sep 21st, 2015 - 02:33 am - Link - Report abuse 0In this British system just about everything that politicians do is legal - including, it seems, legislators raping little children. The question is would it be legal in the US. Would the overthrow of the president by a group of congressmen and women meeting in the proverbial smoke filled back room be considered a coup. You bet it would! And it is Americans who set the standard, not you British.
The fact is that the British system, as instantiated in Australia (and Canada), is nothing like the US system. In the US there is no queen who appoints a premier and other members of the administration. Also, in Australia they use a closed list system to elect the members of their congress. So, if it is a hybrid of any American system then it is the Venezuelan system that it is closest to.
Hepatia, your teachers must have been so proud of your ability to excel at an Argentinean education. Honestly it really shows.
Sep 21st, 2015 - 12:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0And kudos for not letting living in America affect the standard set by your teachers.
So it wasn't a coup as it was constitutional. Coups can't be constitutional. Maybe they are in Argentina. I wouldn't know so I'll defer to your education on that one. After all, you've had so many.
We aren't British. Otherwise Argentineans have suddenly become Spanish. Are you now Spanish? Perhaps you see yourself as Spanish.... albeit with an Argentinean education.
Never said Australia was LIKE the US system. I said it was a “hybrid based on the US and Britain.”
Based. Not like.
You get an A+ for Argentinean comprehension. Yay!
Maybe Americans do set the standards..... for republics. Which is why pretty much every Latin American country copied them.
Australia has been an uninterrupted democracy since 1901. Please name me a Spanish speaking country that can say the same.
I'm sure your Argentinean education extolled the virtues of how successful Latin America was in copying American standards in democracy during the 20th century.
It's alright Hepatia. I understand that your Argentinean education doesn't allow you to learn anything any longer.
If it ever did at all.
http://en.mercopress.com/2015/09/14/folha-president-rousseff-s-last-chance-to-save-her-government#comment414678: But everything is constitutional in British countries. Despite that all the Australians that I know describe the replacement of one unelected premier with another as a “coup”. As does the Australian media. E.g. see: http://en.mercopress.com/2015/09/14/folha-president-rousseff-s-last-chance-to-save-her-government#comment414678:
Sep 22nd, 2015 - 02:29 am - Link - Report abuse 0Australia is British. You speak using British syntax and lexicon (and with British accents). You think like and act like British people. And you have British government. So:
”An Act to constitute the Commonwealth of Australia. [9th July 1900]
(The Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act 1900 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom at Westminster)
Whereas the people of New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Queensland, and Tasmania, humbly relying on the blessing of Almighty God, have agreed to unite in one indissoluble Federal Commonwealth under the Crown of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and under the Constitution hereby established:
And whereas it is expedient to provide for the admission into the Commonwealth of other Australasian Colonies and possessions of the Queen:
Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:--
1. This Act may be cited as the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act. ... ”
Contrast this with the US Constitution which is not an Act of the UK parliament and is not enacted by any Excellent Majesty or with the aid of any Lords Spiritual or Temporal and which is an American constitution. The difference between you Brits and Americans is that the latter have liberty and the former have servility.
Yes yes Hepatia. It was a coup because...... a newspaper headline called it that!
Sep 22nd, 2015 - 05:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0Wow, they don't teach perspective and context in Argentina?
Humph.
I'm sorry but my non-Argentinean education means I don't take such things as LITERAL.
Is there an equivalent word in Spanish?
Seems that maybe there isn't. I shall now take every newspaper article in Argentina as the literal gospel truth.
Wow Argentina and its president isn't going to look very good going forward.
And as for our constitution. Yes it is an Act of the U.K. Parliament.
How awesome is that?
Did you ever ask yourself why? (Probably not as let's face it, that's not the purpose of an Argentinean education).
It is an Act because....... Australia was the FIRST country to come into existence by a VOTE.
Yep. The people of several colonies actually voted and requested our colonial power allow us to become our own country.
No revolutions. No deaths. No civil war. No destruction of infrastructure.
None.
Unfortunately neither the US nor Argentina can say the same thing. Actually there are dozens and dozens that can't say the same thing.
So thank you. There is no greater compliment you can give our constitution than showing that it was gifted to us due to a democratic vote of the people.
Help you see Australia's government and democracy isn't really as important as how people with an actual, functional education see it.
Outside of Canada and the US, there isn't a single country in the Americas that can match our prosperity and democracy.
If only Argentina had more 'coups' like Australia's. Alas, theirs are much more bloody and expensive.
http://en.mercopress.com/2015/09/14/folha-president-rousseff-s-last-chance-to-save-her-government#comment414727: Not one news paper - all of them. And, I'm told, by the broadcast media as well. And by the people in Australia. Certainly all the Australian expats I've spoken to refer to it as a coup. So its a coup by nearly universal acclamation.
Sep 23rd, 2015 - 03:20 am - Link - Report abuse 0And of course the coup was constitutional. You constitution allows your rulers to do most anything. What is not constitutional. is for voters to select their administration. Your Queen has reserved to her that right.
When your constitution contains “the Queen's most Excellent Majesty” and “Lords Spiritual and Temporal” then your British. So while it is understandable that you would want to deny your British identity it is not possible for you to do so.
I've been told that your unelected premier has made the husband of the Queen of the UK a duke. Presumably this was to ingratiate himself with his superior. It seems that this caused a great deal of mirth in Australia.
An Australian expat pointed me to this article which illustrates the bankruptcy of you British : http://en.mercopress.com/2015/09/14/folha-president-rousseff-s-last-chance-to-save-her-government#comment414727:
This Fraser guy was a cold war hardliner and premier. One of the ones that we installed I think. But it seems that he has finally woken up. The part about the US control of the Australian chain on command I already new about but most of the other stuff is new to me. You British are certainly a meek and frightened people.
For a large part of its history the US has been a militarily weak country but it has never surrendered its liberty in the way that the British have. In fact despite our weakness, we have whipped your asses - twice! Now you are completely subservient to the US. Just the way we like it - although we cannot respect you for it.
Oh Hepatia
Sep 23rd, 2015 - 12:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It is a wonder you can dress yourself in the morning.
I prefer an Australian “coup” over an Argentinean one any day.
I also prefer an Australian Queen over an American president any day.
If this is how you view Australia. Then honestly I don't care. Believe what you want.
If the only way you can make my country look bad is by listing your examples in your comment...... then we are indeed the Lucky Country.
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