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Brazil’s VP Alckmin backs workweek cuts as a global trend
Brazil’s Vice President and Industry and Trade Minister Geraldo Alckmin said on Monday that shorter working hours are a “global trend” and that Brazil should debate the issue in depth, as business leaders push to delay discussion of ending the widely used 6x1 work schedule. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesTurncoat Alckmin supports the end of the 6 x 1 work schedule.....a purely populist measure, proposed by the left in an election year.
Feb 26th, 2026 - 04:28 pm - Link - Report abuse -1And, considering Brazil's already lousy productivity rate, it will just make it worse, increasing costs and inflation.
But nothing new, as just one more of the left's populist measures.....like nine-finger's project for free-public transport for all.....no prior study to evaluate the impact on public finances - as proposed, will cost a mere R$ 70 to 80 billion per year.....and the current Federal government, in 3 years (2023,2024,2025), has already racked up a fiscal deficit of R$ 370 billion....it has created dozens of new taxes, after nine-fingers, in 2022, promised he would not raise taxes.
Expenses on his corporate card, which covers only his personal expenses - up to end of 2025, was R$ 1,4 billion....over R$ 1 million (USD 200,000.00) per day....his official travels have cost the taxpayer a mere R$ 7 billion.....and he likes to boast he is a “man of the people”....
It takes millions of disinformed, leftist idiots to keep bringing the biggest crook Brazil has ever known, back again.
“like nine-finger's project”
Mar 05th, 2026 - 01:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Unlike yourself who's all thumbs, which is the totality of your apparent attributes
Terence Hill,
Mar 05th, 2026 - 03:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I see you continue to be a staunch supporter of nine-fingers, defending your hero without the slightest clue to what's going on...typical of brain-washed lefties.
Soon you'll be able to defend his son as well - Lulinha - who is apparently crappin' his pants due to evidence that has surfaced of his involvement in the yet another financial/ corruption scandal - under the PT - that of the “Banco Master”....(and the plundering of the Social Security Fund, INSS).
-Mensalão (pocket-money paid by nine-fingers to politicians to guarantee votes in Congress).
-Petrolão/Lavajato (corruption in Petrobras to finance the left - the natural sequence after the Mensalão was shut down).
-Federal Company Pension-Funds ( a scheme which diverted the pension funds into shaky investments, which then (deliberately) sustained huge losses, with the funds being funnelled back to high-ranking members of the PT).
-“Correios” (the federally-owned P.Office, losing billions every year, but a great source of jobs for the PT).
- INSS (Social Security - approx.R$ 96 billion stolen from retirees through illegal discounts and irregular loans, by several worker Unions, with nine-finger's elder brother involved).
- and now the Banco Master (over 40 billion of investors money converted to rotten credits, a scheme sponsored by the then governor of Bahia - Rui Costa, 2015-2023 - who is now nine-finger's Cabinet Minister....
All under the umbrella of the leftist/PT's Supreme Court Justices (Lewandowski, Dias Tofolli, Dino, and with the help of Alexandre de Moraes), Organized Crime (PCC - Primeiro Comando do Capital), and corrupt elites and politicians of all political spectrums, but mainly those from the left/radical left.
Every corruption scandal always has the PT's finger-prints all over it....Never stops, does it ?
I see you continue to be a staunch supporter ” of democracy.
Mar 05th, 2026 - 07:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Unlike yourself who's views are well publised.
50 Jack Bauer; “Military taking over again, ….. they did it to prevent Brazil from being handed over to the communists. ... the Military , I hope, would be there again to save Brazil
http ://en.mercopress.com/2015/01/26/brazil-supportive-of-mercosur-as-long-as-it-does-not-turn-into-a-burden/comments#comment378210
”Brazilian police uncover military plot to kill Lula before 2023 inauguration.
● Military plotters planned to kill Lula in 2022, police say
● Former aide to ex-President Bolsonaro among those arrested
● Police say documents show they planned military coup”
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazilian-police-arrest-five-alleged-plot-kill-president-lula-stage-coup-2024-11-19/
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