2011-01-26, 05:00 PM
Rob Wrote:followed very near by Brazil
HAHA, such a joke. Brazil is still lightyears behind.
Before we can start going for economic power of the future the country needs to stop having overly corrupt politicians who treat the population (how they are) as stupid people who will view anything good that happened during their government as their work (meaning any long term project is not a good idea since its results would be in the next president's mandate) and that the general population has very poor education.
This works very well since we pay our teachers very poorly (public system and private system too), do not invest enough money on education (other than university level since that gives short-term results) so we create a vicious cycle of a population with bad education (unless you have money to pay for private schools) who will keep voting for politicians who will offer things like food and financial assistance to everyone as remedial measures but won't start any long-term solutions.
And that's not even to mention we have a tax system about as heavy as Switzerland with not nearly as much benefits for the population, guess where that money goes? Worse even, not accounting for corruption, workers in public jobs (not teachers) get to work without fear of being fired (they slack off and can skip work without worries) along with deputates and senators having outrageous salaries along with multiple benefits (aid with air plane tickets anyone?) while they too can afford not to show up to work without fear if being fired (and gaining lots of extra money on extraordinary calls).
Well, this sums up some things about brazil.
Also, remember external public image =/= internal public image. The last government made a great job with its external public image and awesome job of making the poor population happy (which is the majority) with populitarian measures and benefitting of the discovery of that petrol deposit (which had nothing to do with the president himself).