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Well, I didn't say everything was caused by austerity. I said austerity made it worse. Social and infrastructure spending might have been high, but I think the
by forinti 10y ago
Well, I didn't say everything was caused by austerity. I said austerity made it worse.
Social and infrastructure spending might have been high, but I think they were actually insufficient. Politics and economics are too skewed to the right in Brazil. Look at our budget surpluses for the last few decades:
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And then look at the UK's budget history:
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Even Thatcher had deficits all along.
- andrenth 10y ago> Politics and economics are too skewed to the right in Brazil. This is the most absurd out of touch with reality statement I've read this week. Brazil has 30+ parties almost all with "social" or "socialist" in their name. It's 50 shades of red down here.
- forinti 10y agoIt is a matter of personal opinion, after all. Anyway, I took the trouble to enumerate the ten largest parties in the brazilian congress and got their political position from Wikipedia (so as not to corrupt it with my own ideas): PT - Centre-left; PMDB - Centre; PSDB - Centre (implemented neoliberal agenda in the 1990s); PP - Centre-right/Right; PSD - Centre-right; PR - Centre; PSB - Centre-left/Left; PTB - Centre; DEM - Centre-right (this I find hard to believe); PRB - Centre-right.
- woliveirajr 10y agoPlease give me some minutes to edit wikipedia skip you can get it right :-) The "right" or "centre-right" would get votes from democrats with a big smile...