remember when Brazil was touted as a socialist Mecca

sarktastic

that we should emulate?

Feel the Bernnnnnnn!

http://money.cnn.com/2016/03/31/news/economy/brazil-gdp-recession/index.html

PurpleThrobber

See what happens when you elect a woman to do a man's job.

Brazilians should stick to what their good at - sex, waxing and soccer.

And kidnapping people. They are pretty good at that, too.

GreenRiverGatorz

No, I really don't remember that.

UWhuskytskeet

GreenRiverGatorz said:

No, I really don't remember that.

Seriously. I think he mixed up Brazil with Venezuela. Remember when the US used to teach geography?

TierbsHsotBoobs

UWhuskytskeet said:

GreenRiverGatorz said:

No, I really don't remember that.

Seriously. I think he mixed up Brazil with Venezuela. Remember when the US used to teach geography?

Maps and like such as.

sarktastic

President Dilma Rousseff of the leftist Workers’ Party began her second term in January 2015. A recession, fiscal and monetary belt-tightening, and a far-reaching kickback scheme involving her party and the state-controlled Petróleo Brasileiro oil company sent her approval rating plummeting. Brazil has poor public services, antiquated and insufficient infrastructure, and high tax rates. In recent years, inflation has surged again. Growth is sluggish, but Brazil’s “Bolsa Família” conditional cash transfer program for the poor has won support in some sectors. Brazil is the world’s seventh-largest economy, and its population of almost 200 million is heavily concentrated on the Atlantic coast. Since the advent of the monetary “real plan” in the 1990s and the end of hyperinflation, the poverty rate has dropped, but heavy government intervention in the economy continues to limit development.

~ Heritage Foundation

AIRWOLF

UWhuskytskeet said:

GreenRiverGatorz said:

No, I really don't remember that.

Seriously. I think he mixed up Brazil with Venezuela. Remember when the US used to teach geography?

There was some talk that Lula was going to deliver on the promise of Chavez's socialist ideals, without the thuggery and bread lines. It wasn't highly touted, but it was out there.

Of course it didn't happen because...it never does.

doogsinparadise

Remember when Brazil was a military dictatorship?

It's telling that the guys leading the impeachment drive are more individually corrupt than Roussef. Has she done a good job? No. Is she Lula's fall guy? Totally.

PurpleJ

So muslims are socialists now? Got it.

2001400ex

sarktastic said:

President Dilma Rousseff of the leftist Workers’ Party began her second term in January 2015. A recession, fiscal and monetary belt-tightening, and a far-reaching kickback scheme involving her party and the state-controlled Petróleo Brasileiro oil company sent her approval rating plummeting. Brazil has poor public services, antiquated and insufficient infrastructure, and high tax rates. In recent years, inflation has surged again. Growth is sluggish, but Brazil’s “Bolsa Família” conditional cash transfer program for the poor has won support in some sectors. Brazil is the world’s seventh-largest economy, and its population of almost 200 million is heavily concentrated on the Atlantic coast. Since the advent of the monetary “real plan” in the 1990s and the end of hyperinflation, the poverty rate has dropped, but heavy government intervention in the economy continues to limit development.

~ Heritage Foundation

We would include a mandate in our proposal–not a mandate on employers, but a mandate on heads of households–to obtain at least a basic package of health insurance for themselves and their families. That would have to include, by federal law, a catastrophic provision in the form of a stop loss for a family’s total health outlays. It would have to include all members of the family, and it might also include certain very specific services, such as preventive care, well baby visits, and other items.

~ Heritage Foundation

OZONE

sarktastic said:

remember when Brazil was touted as a socialist Mecca

No. When was this and who was saying it? I haven't heard of Brazil described as socialist before. Are you confusing it with another country?

OZONE

sarktastic said:

President Dilma Rousseff of the leftist Workers’ Party began her second term in January 2015. A recession, fiscal and monetary belt-tightening, and a far-reaching kickback scheme involving her party and the state-controlled Petróleo Brasileiro oil company sent her approval rating plummeting. Brazil has poor public services, antiquated and insufficient infrastructure, and high tax rates. In recent years, inflation has surged again. Growth is sluggish, but Brazil’s “Bolsa Família” conditional cash transfer program for the poor has won support in some sectors. Brazil is the world’s seventh-largest economy, and its population of almost 200 million is heavily concentrated on the Atlantic coast. Since the advent of the monetary “real plan” in the 1990s and the end of hyperinflation, the poverty rate has dropped, but heavy government intervention in the economy continues to limit development.

~ Heritage Foundation

This doesn't answer the question posters are asking you. When was this the case... "remember when Brazil was touted as a socialist Mecca"

AIRWOLF

OZONE said:

sarktastic said:

remember when Brazil was touted as a socialist Mecca

No. When was this and who was saying it? I haven't heard of Brazil described as socialist before. Are you confusing it with another country?

Like I posted above, it wasn't touted the way in was in Venezuela earlier on, but Lula was expected to be a champion of the poor. He was elected as the candidate of the Worker's Party which is, shockingly, fairly socialist in ideology.

Here is a piece about it from 2009:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/brazil-s-president-lula-father-of-the-poor-has-triggered-economic-miracle-a-662917.html

But Googling is difficult, I realize.

OZONE

AIRWOLF said:

OZONE said:

sarktastic said:

remember when Brazil was touted as a socialist Mecca

No. When was this and who was saying it? I haven't heard of Brazil described as socialist before. Are you confusing it with another country?

Like I posted above, it wasn't touted the way in was in Venezuela earlier on, but Lula was expected to be a champion of the poor. He was elected as the candidate of the Worker's Party which is, shockingly, fairly socialist in ideology.

Here is a piece about it from 2009:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/brazil-s-president-lula-father-of-the-poor-has-triggered-economic-miracle-a-662917.html

But Googling is difficult, I realize.

Two points/questions:

1. How is any of what you just wrote the same as this "remember when Brazil was touted as a socialist Mecca". So again, when was it "touted" as a "Mecca" and who was doing the touting?

2. Is this your other handle?

sarktastic

Since your Google seems to be brok n, I recommend Bing

Fire_Marshall_Bill

sarktastic said:

President Dilma Rousseff of the leftist Workers’ Party began her second term in January 2015. A recession, fiscal and monetary belt-tightening, and a far-reaching kickback scheme involving her party and the state-controlled Petróleo Brasileiro oil company sent her approval rating plummeting. Brazil has poor public services, antiquated and insufficient infrastructure, and high tax rates. In recent years, inflation has surged again. Growth is sluggish, but Brazil’s “Bolsa Família” conditional cash transfer program for the poor has won support in some sectors. Brazil is the world’s seventh-largest economy, and its population of almost 200 million is heavily concentrated on the Atlantic coast. Since the advent of the monetary “real plan” in the 1990s and the end of hyperinflation, the poverty rate has dropped, but heavy government intervention in the economy continues to limit development.

~ Heritage Foundation

Heritage Foundation. So a right wing think tank....

PurpleJ

Brazil is a country. Mecca is a city. Comparison doesn't hold water.

OZONE

sarktastic said:

Since your Google seems to be brok n, I recommend Bing

I googled "remember when Brazil was touted as a socialist Mecca".

The top result was this thread.

The ball is in your court.

When was Brazil ever considered by anybody to be a socialist Mecca?

RaceBannon

OZONE said:

sarktastic said:

Since your Google seems to be brok n, I recommend Bing

I googled "remember when Brazil was touted as a socialist Mecca".

The top result was this thread.

The ball is in your court.

When was Brazil ever considered by anybody to be a socialist Mecca?

Obviously this thread

sarktastic

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_socialist_movement_in_Brazil

OZONE

sarktastic said:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_socialist_movement_in_Brazil

That short wiki page doesn't call Brazil a socialist "mecca" -- or suggest that it ever was one, or being "touted" as one.

Are you sure you aren't thinking of the other country in S.A. that is a bit further north?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_socialist_states