La Guaneña
6th April 2012, 18:23
Well, I've heard before from people from other countries that the Partido dos Trabalhadores' (PT) government is a "socialist" or a "social-democrat" one. Well, sorry to break you the news, but it isn't.
PT first came to power in 2002 after 8 years of central-right domination from PSDB, Party of the Brazilian Social-Democracy (oh the irony), giving hope to brazilian workers that the the privitazations would finally come to a halt. PSDB had fucked the public education system really bad, opening up the market for private schools and colleges and making education one of the most profitable services around.
The PSDB government faced some harsh opposition from the student and worker organizations, alligned to the PT and it's alliances, such as the PC do B since the end of the military dictatorship.
These organizations were, mainly:
-CUT(Central Única dos Trabalhadores) Workers Central, meant to congregate most unions in the country;
-UNE(National Student Union);
-UBES(Brazilian Union of Secundarist Students);
-MST(Landless peasant movement);
These were all congregates unde the CMS, the Social Movement Central, and some of the former leaders from these movements achieved strong political positions, such as the former minister of sport, Orlando Silva(PC do B-UNE), the current minister of sport and Aldo Rebelo (PC do B-UNE).
So these movements made PSDB fuck the education less than their intention was, but solely for the strengthening of the political opposition. So then comes Lula and Dilma, along with de Socialist and Democratic(sic) youth of the PT and hand us out these, with "critical support" from UNE, UBES and all those other mother fuckers:
ProUni - University for All: Government gives a 100%, 50% or a 25% scholarship to poor students. Looks wonderful, right? It ain't, because basically the government is using public money to pay for private education. Why make education actually free if you can do almost that while giving the people that funded your campaign their money back? THAT'S SMART!
REUNI - Big reform in the University system, more mobility, expansion in the number of students in the universities, easier mobility... WITHOUT MORE INVESTMENT. Just like the World Bank suggested. Why invest in universities, build more classrooms, hire more teachers and pay them better, make more labs if you cand just stuff more people in them, take away reasarch hours from teachers and put them in crowded classes, make students take classes in private institutions and get a public diploma or even not have them go to the institution and just take a proficiency test to get their diploma? THAT'S REALLY FUCKING SMART!
ProNaTec - Same thing as ProUni, but with technical education, wich graduates the best illitarate bolt twisters and button pressers in the world. And instead of investing public money in public institutions, we just cut R$3Bi from the public education and give a big ass investment to the "S System", composed by SENAI, SENAC, SESI, SESC, etc, wich give excellent and cheap:thumbup1: technical education to poor people so they can learn to fix computers and operate heavy machines just right! Oh, and the owners are the biggest and baddest national industries, but that's just a detail. Yay, more money for the next campaign! HOLY COW THEY ARE SMART!
FIES - Student Financing System: Okay, now this is downright awesome. USA-style leases that students use to pay for the shitty private universities that they go to(The best ones are public here), leaving them in debt with the government for some years. What's 5 years in debt when you are young, right? THANK YOU DILMA FOR LEADING US UNDER THE WATCH OF GREAT LULA
PNE - National Education Plan: Okay, now this is the big boy. This is version fucking 2.0, mother fuckers. This plan has all of the above, with the "critical support" of the organizations, that ask for a 2 or 3% raise in the public investment in education, without saying if the destiny of the money is public as well. Also they ask for a regulating agency to be built, as usual with members of their organizations(dah peoplez) and the government, so it's fair.
I could also go on and on about the roll of the technical education, alienation of the workers, the vestibular system to get in to universities, how in school the rich kids pay and the poor kids don't, but that roll gets inverted in the superior education if you guys want me to.
AVANTE, AVANTE! AVANTE ESTUDANTE!
CLASSISTA E COMBATIVO!
PT first came to power in 2002 after 8 years of central-right domination from PSDB, Party of the Brazilian Social-Democracy (oh the irony), giving hope to brazilian workers that the the privitazations would finally come to a halt. PSDB had fucked the public education system really bad, opening up the market for private schools and colleges and making education one of the most profitable services around.
The PSDB government faced some harsh opposition from the student and worker organizations, alligned to the PT and it's alliances, such as the PC do B since the end of the military dictatorship.
These organizations were, mainly:
-CUT(Central Única dos Trabalhadores) Workers Central, meant to congregate most unions in the country;
-UNE(National Student Union);
-UBES(Brazilian Union of Secundarist Students);
-MST(Landless peasant movement);
These were all congregates unde the CMS, the Social Movement Central, and some of the former leaders from these movements achieved strong political positions, such as the former minister of sport, Orlando Silva(PC do B-UNE), the current minister of sport and Aldo Rebelo (PC do B-UNE).
So these movements made PSDB fuck the education less than their intention was, but solely for the strengthening of the political opposition. So then comes Lula and Dilma, along with de Socialist and Democratic(sic) youth of the PT and hand us out these, with "critical support" from UNE, UBES and all those other mother fuckers:
ProUni - University for All: Government gives a 100%, 50% or a 25% scholarship to poor students. Looks wonderful, right? It ain't, because basically the government is using public money to pay for private education. Why make education actually free if you can do almost that while giving the people that funded your campaign their money back? THAT'S SMART!
REUNI - Big reform in the University system, more mobility, expansion in the number of students in the universities, easier mobility... WITHOUT MORE INVESTMENT. Just like the World Bank suggested. Why invest in universities, build more classrooms, hire more teachers and pay them better, make more labs if you cand just stuff more people in them, take away reasarch hours from teachers and put them in crowded classes, make students take classes in private institutions and get a public diploma or even not have them go to the institution and just take a proficiency test to get their diploma? THAT'S REALLY FUCKING SMART!
ProNaTec - Same thing as ProUni, but with technical education, wich graduates the best illitarate bolt twisters and button pressers in the world. And instead of investing public money in public institutions, we just cut R$3Bi from the public education and give a big ass investment to the "S System", composed by SENAI, SENAC, SESI, SESC, etc, wich give excellent and cheap:thumbup1: technical education to poor people so they can learn to fix computers and operate heavy machines just right! Oh, and the owners are the biggest and baddest national industries, but that's just a detail. Yay, more money for the next campaign! HOLY COW THEY ARE SMART!
FIES - Student Financing System: Okay, now this is downright awesome. USA-style leases that students use to pay for the shitty private universities that they go to(The best ones are public here), leaving them in debt with the government for some years. What's 5 years in debt when you are young, right? THANK YOU DILMA FOR LEADING US UNDER THE WATCH OF GREAT LULA
PNE - National Education Plan: Okay, now this is the big boy. This is version fucking 2.0, mother fuckers. This plan has all of the above, with the "critical support" of the organizations, that ask for a 2 or 3% raise in the public investment in education, without saying if the destiny of the money is public as well. Also they ask for a regulating agency to be built, as usual with members of their organizations(dah peoplez) and the government, so it's fair.
I could also go on and on about the roll of the technical education, alienation of the workers, the vestibular system to get in to universities, how in school the rich kids pay and the poor kids don't, but that roll gets inverted in the superior education if you guys want me to.
AVANTE, AVANTE! AVANTE ESTUDANTE!
CLASSISTA E COMBATIVO!