A 'lightning' vote rushed through the country's National Congress before it shuts for the year also awarded a 134 per cent pay rise to the president and a 149 per cent increase to ministers !
The decision came in light of recent Government promises to cut down on public spending.........LOL
The overall wage increase nationally is around R$1.9bn (£715m) as salaries of more than 1,000 state deputies and 52,000 local councillors are increased.
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who has only two weeks left in the job was "lamenting" the vote because he would not benefit.
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Originally posted by Asromanista2001:Brazilian politicians have voted to give themselves a 67 per cent pay rise !
A 'lightning' vote rushed through the country's National Congress before it shuts for the year also awarded a 134 per cent pay rise to the president and a 149 per cent increase to ministers !
The decision came in light of recent Government promises to cut down on public spending.........LOL
The overall wage increase nationally is around R$1.9bn (£715m) as salaries of more than 1,000 state deputies and 52,000 local councillors are increased.
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who has only two weeks left in the job was "lamenting" the vote because he would not benefit.
Wah !!!
when a country's Govt began to be a bigger burden on the people..............jialat..............
S'pore is the best example.............we have the most number of bureaucrats..........and they're the highest-paid under-worked parasites of all............
but i bet their pay is still like 10000000 times less than ours right?
Maybe the next WikiLeaks would have Sg leaders cursing their Brazalian counterparts for being slow in learning from them!