{"id":383,"date":"2011-02-03T22:11:55","date_gmt":"2011-02-04T00:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/observingbrazil.com\/?p=383"},"modified":"2019-09-09T01:18:54","modified_gmt":"2019-09-09T01:18:54","slug":"dilma-to-the-legislature-a-few-promises-and-interesting-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregmichener.com\/blog\/dilma-to-the-legislature-a-few-promises-and-interesting-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"Dilma to the Legislature&#8211; A Few Promises"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"color:#800000;\">PROMISES<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>1. \u00a0The PAC2 stands for the <strong>Program for Growth Acceleration 2<\/strong>, and it&#8217;s not a midnight TV infomercial. It\u2019s government\u2019s gimmicky excuse to spend lots of money, $955 billion Reales\u00a0over the next four years, or close to $600 billion U.S. The Program is for national development\u2014highways, hydro-electricity projects, school and hospital building\u2014the stuff you would expect a government to spend its money on anyways. We just hope there is transparency in what is spent. Anecdotal evidence tells us no: the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pac.gov.br\/#\">PAC website<\/a> makes no mention of the Program&#8217;s commitment to transparency, and there is more than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.otempo.com.br\/otempo\/noticias\/?IdEdicao=1688&amp;IdCanal=1&amp;IdSubCanal=&amp;IdNoticia=143211&amp;IdTipoNoticia=1\">one article<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/transparenciapolitica.blogspot.com\/2010\/09\/verdade-sobre-o-pac.html\">blog<\/a> on the Program&#8217;s lack of transparency.<\/p>\n<p>2. $________ . <strong>A minimum floor for teacher salaries<\/strong>.\u00a0 In Korea teachers are considered\u00a0nation builders. But\u00a0teacher&#8217;s in Brazil must find it difficult to build nations when they earn under $600 US a month, especially when working conditions are dreadful. You get what you pay for; students typically don\u2019t stick around: in 2006 the average Brazilian spent just over 7 years in formal schooling. \u00a0The minimum floor would be set around $1000R (~$600).<\/p>\n<p>3.<strong> Tax Reform<\/strong>\u2026no details given, but a goal that has eluded previous presidents.<\/p>\n<p>4.<strong> International Disaster Prevention System<\/strong>\u2026a response to the recent mudslides and the yearly disasters caused by erosion, rain, and bad building locations.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color:#800000;\">A FEW THINGS SAID<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>-Dilma called Brazil\u2019s new oil finds the country\u2019s \u201dpassport to the future\u201d. That\u2019s what Nigeria, Venezuela and Libya said when they found oil. \u00a0Let\u2019s hope so.<\/p>\n<p>-28 million people stepped over the poverty line in the past 8 years. Huge advance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PROMISES 1. \u00a0The PAC2 stands for the Program for Growth Acceleration 2, and it&#8217;s not a midnight TV infomercial. It\u2019s government\u2019s gimmicky excuse to spend lots of money, $955 billion Reales\u00a0over the next four years, or close to $600 billion U.S. The Program is for national development\u2014highways, hydro-electricity projects, school and hospital building\u2014the stuff you <a href=\"https:\/\/gregmichener.com\/blog\/dilma-to-the-legislature-a-few-promises-and-interesting-comments\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"sr-only\">Read more about Dilma to the Legislature&#8211; A Few Promises<\/span>[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmichener.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmichener.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmichener.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmichener.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmichener.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregmichener.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1699,"href":"https:\/\/gregmichener.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions\/1699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmichener.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmichener.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmichener.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}