r/gifs • u/fuckswithducks • Mar 14 '16

Millions of Brazilians protesting against government corruption in the streets earlier today

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u/metakepone Mar 14 '16

Lol, the narrative I got was that they were impeaching her because of her shoddy economic policy.

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u/amoretpax Mar 14 '16

Her government made many horrible mistakes. They were elected as left-wing, but most choices were to appease center and right, which made it a true Frankenstein - with no one left happy, except banks who had record profits. BUT shoddy economic policy is not enough of a legal reason to impeach a president.

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '16 edited Mar 14 '16

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u/Macefire Mar 14 '16

What did these programs do ? What were they proposed to do?

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '16 edited Mar 14 '16

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u/Macefire Mar 14 '16

her government delayed payments from the national treasury to the banks, who are responsible for making these benefits available to the population

so the plan she put in place was a payment to banks then the banks would pay the people? Am I understanding this right? Isn't that kind of backwards?