alertatotal.net/2014/01/pt-ja-tem-us-2-bilhoes-para-torrar-na.html Wednesday, January 29, 2014 PT already has R$ 2 billion to burn in the 2014 elections campaign, especially in Dilma’s re-election By Jorge Serrão = [email protected] The major Brasilia lobbyists comment openly: the Workers Party has so far R$ 2 billion to invest in the election campaign of 2014. Most of the billions will be used in the Dilma Rousseff’s re-election. The money is a direct result of a species of “Mensalão” – or draw back (it comes and goes). It is an “unofficial accounting” (known as “caixa dois”, in Portuguese) built in a sophisticated form, with money leaving the Country and scattered out there, to return later in a disguised form of business investment or in future donations. The “mensaleiro” mechanism of the “petralhas” (Workers Party) is sophisticated. Large companies that have contracts with the federal Government directly or with state-owned companies” cut sub-contracts of works and services with stooges (smaller-sized companies or persons — including relatives of politicians or close partners, to avoid suspicion). The outsourcing, especially in part state/part private compnies are the largest sources of the “mensalões” [“under the table” payments]. As soon as the corruption money is dispersed overseas, it comes back in the form of the traditional mensalões (political contributions, under the table payments, usually in real estate acquisition, jewellery, etc). Another part of the money will materialize in legal donations to be washed in the campaign (preferably all with a legal varnish, with allied companies, which then pass on the commissions for services, legally or not, to political benefit of schemes). Oversight is virtually impossible. Companies enter the corruption game, because they think it more convenient, or because they are forced to enter the game, not to break, because of lack of businesses. This corrupt system – which is not practiced only by the PT (Workers Party) - operates at all levels of public administration. It is repeated on the federal, state, and in the cities level – especially in all “state companies” in these three levels of the organized crime governance. So this is how the Brazilian “Capimunism” (Communism disguised as Capitalism). The State money (public) irrigates the business and part of the resources returned to political schemes – as a business feedback. The PT sophistication is that the party invests the bulk of its resources outside of Brazil, in a legalized form, preferably in transnational banks and large investment funds. Thats why so much money flows in and out of Brazil, without stopping. Such a system depends on high interest rates to pay the back-and-forth of money corruption. Works and services with inflated budgets generate permanent surplus money to feed the “mensaleiros” (schemers’) schemes – which never ceased to exist, and even became more sophisticated – even after the stunning conviction of a minority of politicians in the Criminal Action 470 in the Supreme Court. The [local] press prefers not to disclose it and the Public Attorney’s Office and Justice Ministry choose not to investigate thoroughly such dirty mechanisms that make the magic richness of Brazilian politicians. Such impunity, makes it sound like a debauchery the demagogic yesterday’s Dilma Rousseff’s fits [on TV]. The President was upset with the repercussions of her large spenditure, in Portugal, after the ridiculous participation at the World Economic Forum in Davos. No use Dilma swear that she paid the Bill with her own money. As head of State of a country with large inflation and cost of living rising, she should set an example. It is bad policy to splurge on expensive dinner outings, in luxury restaurants. Probity also means economy. Dilma shows that she is a failure in this respect. To her, personal profligacy is just a sad reflection of what makes the Government and benefiting the political schemes of business. Brazil is hopeless. If corruption is not transformed into a heinous crime, with exemplary punishments, agile, and transparent public mechanisms of social control of public expenditure, we will never be a developed country. So, no point in wasting time with expensive and useless speculations about who will occupy the Planalto Palace absolutist “throne”. Either we change the political, economic model – and why not say, cultural and civilization – or we will be the eternal rich nation, artificially maintained in misery, as a mere colony of exploitation by corrupt national and transnational forces associated with it.
Posted on: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 13:44:58 +0000
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