Comments for Filling Potholes Is Not Enough. We Need to Change Brazil's Direction at http://www.brazzil.com , comment 1 to 18 out of 18 comments http://www.brazzil.com Thu, 08 Jan 2009 13:13:51 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.brazzil.com/articles/200-january-2009/10151-filling-potholes-is-not-enough-we-need-to-change-brazils-direction.html#comment-38380 Despite Brazil has only 5 % of paved roads, those have millions of potholes. Meaning Brazil cant even afford to...FILL THEIR POTHOLES, ON SUCH a small percentage of paved roads ! Much worse than most African countries, if you did not know. And Robbing Hook is so proud of his achievements, at the country helm during the biggest World Economic Boom of the last 30-40 years ! Who is surprised ? Not me...for sure ! ;D - ch.c.. Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:19:37 +0100 http://www.brazzil.com/articles/200-january-2009/10151-filling-potholes-is-not-enough-we-need-to-change-brazils-direction.html#comment-38378 [quote]or bash Putin, who is up to his old tricks turning off the gas valves to many European countries with glee!![/quote] Thanks Jon. As usual you have some "constructive" and "concrete" suggestions. :D - João da Silva Thu, 08 Jan 2009 10:05:01 +0100 http://www.brazzil.com/articles/200-january-2009/10151-filling-potholes-is-not-enough-we-need-to-change-brazils-direction.html#comment-38377 or bash Putin, who is up to his old tricks turning off the gas valves to many European countries with glee!! - jon Thu, 08 Jan 2009 09:57:19 +0100 http://www.brazzil.com/articles/200-january-2009/10151-filling-potholes-is-not-enough-we-need-to-change-brazils-direction.html#comment-38376 [quote]and are starting to crack down on the internet[/quote] Hey Forrest, you are absolutely right. It is safer to bash Bush (and from Jan 20th Obama) over the Internet than to criticize our politicos. BUT...BUT....., my preferred target is Sarko. ;) - João da Silva Thu, 08 Jan 2009 09:51:19 +0100 http://www.brazzil.com/articles/200-january-2009/10151-filling-potholes-is-not-enough-we-need-to-change-brazils-direction.html#comment-38372 know that MAN IS AS ONLY AS INTELGENT AS HE NEEDS TO BE FOR WHAT HE DOES so by not teaching them they dont know they are being screwd by 10 % of the population thet hols the wealth and political office that is why they want to control the press and new on TV and are starting to crack down on the internet as to much info for the poor is bad for them - Forrest Allen Brown Thu, 08 Jan 2009 08:01:25 +0100 http://www.brazzil.com/articles/200-january-2009/10151-filling-potholes-is-not-enough-we-need-to-change-brazils-direction.html#comment-38371 You can hope your child will qualify for Harvard, or MIT or Oxford or the Sorbonne, but more likely it is a CEE student and will go to San Fernando Valley College and become a car mechanic or a soap salesman or an office perfunctory, if they are lucky. That is why they call it average. Brazil has a birthrite of potential genius, but if you leave the batteries in a drawer in the kitchen without putting them to work, of what use are they? Dead batteries and electrical technologies that have gone dead. The mind interestingly enough is an electrical device. It comes with a manual, but in a society where 50% are functionally illiterate, and 90% are technically illiterate, most people will get little use of their minds and will work hard and not smart; living lives of not so quiet desperation! - hummus Thu, 08 Jan 2009 06:53:09 +0100 http://www.brazzil.com/articles/200-january-2009/10151-filling-potholes-is-not-enough-we-need-to-change-brazils-direction.html#comment-38370 [quote]May the violence be under control, putting an end to the daily tragedies shown us by the television news shows, the massacres, the drug trafficking that we used to consider "illnesses" of other places.[/quote] Good luck with that. Until Brazil is equipped with an efficient police force that can deal with the remaining 97% of homicide cases that are never solved each year, and until judges stop letting people who torture and "tire-burn" journalists off after serving only 5 years of a 23 year sentence, the criminally deranged will continue their reign of terror and bloodbath while laughing. [quote]May we overcome the difficulties of transportation that is each day more chaotic, thus recovering one of our former sources of pride, a city without traffic jams.[/quote] Certainly the traffic makes for a greater discomfort to most middle class Brazilians than the 47,000 killed on the roads each year. Why else would our esteemed Senator focus on being an hour late for a meeting given the congestion, and not mention the vehicular carnage nor it's costs to Brazil's health care and emergency response departments? Maybe he's like some of my right wing inlaws who think that 47,000 killed on the roads, and the thousands of lives claimed by gun violence makes for some sort of self-culling program to remove the undesirables from such a prestigious nation? I hope for the best in Brazil for 2009, but... - Gringo Thu, 08 Jan 2009 06:01:09 +0100 http://www.brazzil.com/articles/200-january-2009/10151-filling-potholes-is-not-enough-we-need-to-change-brazils-direction.html#comment-38365 Dolphins are a football team. - hummus Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:26:22 +0100 http://www.brazzil.com/articles/200-january-2009/10151-filling-potholes-is-not-enough-we-need-to-change-brazils-direction.html#comment-38364 [quote]pleas reply to at least some of the questions people ask you. [/quote] If he doesn't answer, we have no other alternative than asking him the difference between Dolphins and Whales. :D - João da Silva Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:22:24 +0100 http://www.brazzil.com/articles/200-january-2009/10151-filling-potholes-is-not-enough-we-need-to-change-brazils-direction.html#comment-38363 [quote]A body in motion tends to stay in motion and a body at rust tends to stay at rust. [/quote] Unless an external force is applied to it! - João da Silva Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:57:57 +0100 http://www.brazzil.com/articles/200-january-2009/10151-filling-potholes-is-not-enough-we-need-to-change-brazils-direction.html#comment-38362 [quote]What's the use of your articles if you don't address the criticisms/remarks? You may have noticed that most comments are very critical of your opinions and standpoints and in my humble opinion they are so due to very valid reasons. We are not interested in your preaching only, because methings it contains many holes and shortcomings.[/quote] It is a good question, but worth waiting for his answer. CB is not a bad bloke, but he is somewhat lost in the yonder. Doesn't know if he belongs to the left or right or center. All the "elected officials" have their e-mail addresses well published, including Sen.Buarque. Only a very few bother to reply to your e-mail. The ones who reply use their sidekicks to give standard replies. One (not)well known exception is a federal deputy from our state. Before she was elected to that position, she occupied a very high post in our city.We had some problems with the property taxes that were paid,but was not acknowledged by the city (Receiving harassing intimations). We had enough of the shit and my wife sent in a long e-mail to the lady. I did not believe that we would receive a reply. To my surprise, within a couple of hours, we got a reply with copies to her subordinates with a footnote:"It is a legitimate complaint and solve it". When we went to the "Subordinates", the first question we were asked:" Why did you have to complain to the big boss , when we could have solved it easily for you?". My wife answered: "Because you did not bother to answer our phone call and your secretary gave a standard reply ' Ele esta muito ocupado (He is very busy)'. The problem with us is that we do not direct our legitimate complaints to the [i]right[/i] people. Who knows, if you all send e-mail messages (even in English)to Sen.Buarque to his e-mail address, he might enjoy interacting with you (including Ch.C). His website in Portuguese is good though. - João da Silva Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:35:38 +0100 http://www.brazzil.com/articles/200-january-2009/10151-filling-potholes-is-not-enough-we-need-to-change-brazils-direction.html#comment-38361 It is so much easier to pray than to do anything. Buarque has accomplished nothing, nothing! Everything is the same, same percentages of ignorance, violence, failed infrastructure and this guy is leading the prayer. Yackity, yackity, yackity! This guy is praying and the global economy is going to hell. Wait till Russia invades the Ukraine. The genius 'O'bama' nominates a total incompetent, Peneta to head the CIA, 1.2 trillion deficit for the next decade, and this moron Cristovam is praying. Give me a break. What has he done? It is doing that causes change, not 'wishing' for change. This guy has been 'wishing' for 4 years. People mistake talking for doing. So Christovam talks and talks and talks, and says everything everyone knows needs to be done, wants to be done, but will it seems never get done. Year after year after year, the same erosion, the same rust. The thing about rust is that it is rotting from within, and the rust you see is merely the outward manifestation of a fundamental structural problem. Oh what will Brazil do, what will Brazil do? A body in motion tends to stay in motion and a body at rust tends to stay at rust. Newtons First Law, Christovam! - hummus Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:05:22 +0100 http://www.brazzil.com/articles/200-january-2009/10151-filling-potholes-is-not-enough-we-need-to-change-brazils-direction.html#comment-38360 I LOVE ROBBING HOOK - carlos Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:54:34 +0100 http://www.brazzil.com/articles/200-january-2009/10151-filling-potholes-is-not-enough-we-need-to-change-brazils-direction.html#comment-38359 Stop filling the potholes. Brazilian auto makers are down in sales. We don´t need anything that makes cars last longer. Brazilian communities could not survive without speed bumps, many drivers would speed through the business sections at 100 KPH without speed bumps, potholes serve the same function. Not enough cars are going to the junkyard in proportion to the new ones being sold. Potholes can help. When potholes fill with water, cars get dirty. Some people make their living washing cars. Potholes assist the tire industry. In some interior Amazon towns, the main industry is truck spring shops. These shops exist because of potholes and bad roads. Wheels break, tires split, springs fracture, axles break off. It takes a big lathe to be able to chuck in a truck rear axle, clean it up, weld in a new end and then machine it. Brazian workers build those lathes, those welders, everything that goes into it. If all the potholes were filled they would be out of a job. - Ric Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:02:27 +0100 http://www.brazzil.com/articles/200-january-2009/10151-filling-potholes-is-not-enough-we-need-to-change-brazils-direction.html#comment-38358 for all your talk have you ever done in your term at office to benfit the people you represent ? yes you are good at writing page after page here but what about a bill for schools , roads , better pay for the poorest of brasilians . pleas reply to at least some of the questions people ask you. - Forrest Allen Brown Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:40:14 +0100 http://www.brazzil.com/articles/200-january-2009/10151-filling-potholes-is-not-enough-we-need-to-change-brazils-direction.html#comment-38356 Some corrections due to fast typing: "very valid" should become just "valid", and "methings" should become "methinks". Thanks. - jakob Wed, 07 Jan 2009 07:37:35 +0100 http://www.brazzil.com/articles/200-january-2009/10151-filling-potholes-is-not-enough-we-need-to-change-brazils-direction.html#comment-38355 Mr. Buarque, I see you are very productive, you've published so far many articles on brazzil.com. My question is, why don't you address the comments (each of your articles has a "Comments" section) afterwards? What's the use of your articles if you don't address the criticisms/remarks? You may have noticed that most comments are very critical of your opinions and standpoints and in my humble opinion they are so due to very valid reasons. We are not interested in your preaching only, because methings it contains many holes and shortcomings. Yours, - jakob Wed, 07 Jan 2009 07:35:57 +0100 http://www.brazzil.com/articles/200-january-2009/10151-filling-potholes-is-not-enough-we-need-to-change-brazils-direction.html#comment-38349 "May we vigorously pursue our struggle to end our humiliating status as the champions of social inequality, the paradise of endemic diseases, the territory with the most serious inequality in access to education, the seventh largest contingent of illiteracy and a country with an education system leaving us totally unprepared to face the century-of-knowledge." But...but...but... Robbing Hook disagree ! "May we overcome the difficulties of transportation that is each day more chaotic, thus recovering one of our former sources of pride, a city without traffic jams." but...but...but.....if Robbing Hook would increase the paved roads percentage from 5 to 6 %, HE with all brazilians would caress their navels of how great and good they are. And how Brazil already belong to the developed nations group "May the violence be under control, putting an end to the daily tragedies shown us by the television news shows, the massacres, the drug trafficking that we used to consider "illnesses" of other places." But...but...but as per Robbing Hook everything is under control ! So much that killers are freed or found innocents, to not destabilize the stats further ! "May education implant the true full-day school schedule, respecting the commitments made with the teachers, fulfilling the law that will guarantee children space in the schools beginning at age four, in kindergartens with full quality." But...but...but then what type of schools education ! Getting a bad education is better than nothing....Robbing Hook says. He will even say "look at my own education and career...if you lie & cheat & hide enough...you can have a great future....IN BRAZIL. Dont we say honesty doesnt pay ?" - ch.c.. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:54:05 +0100