Opinion – Vinicius Torres Freire: Bolsonaro cut spending on civil servants and spent more on military

Jair Bolsonaro said he would readjust the salary of all federal employees. Ministers and government in general said there is no money. Bolsonaro took it inverted up to the center. Of course: if the increase came out, there would be nothing left to finance extra parliamentary amendments.

Bolsonaro then wants to give raises at least to the military and federal police. He always had the mentality of a militia councilor and a military unionist.

Federal spending on salaries of (active) civil servants fell under Bolsonaro. Since the beginning of 2020, when this government started to have greater force on the Budget, this expenditure decreased 8% in real terms (discounted for inflation; annualized expenditure), in fact an astonishment. Expenditure on active military personnel increased by 5.5%, however.

The drop in civil expenditure is due to the combination of staff reductions and a wage freeze. It may even be that the downsizing has to do with some plan to increase efficiency, not a mere improvised squeeze (this journalist did not find an independent analysis that takes stock of the period).

Why has spending on active military personnel increased? Because they got a special boost from Bolsonaro. Why was there no downsizing in other ways? About 6,000 soldiers make an extra in the government. There must be no shortage of people in the Armed Forces.

Bolsonaro fulfills essential parts of your program. Gives military money and a rich mouth. It advertises the military dictatorship and torturers. He wants to take this barbaric revisionism even to college entrance exams.

He promised to occupy the government with the buccaneers of the forest, his version of the military doctrine of “national sovereignty” over the Amazon. Mission Accomplished. The country has gone back 15 years in the control of deforestation, apart from the lack of environmental preservation institutions.

It took a decade for the country to contain part of the Amazonian shoddy. When Lula da Silva (PT) took office in 2003, 25 thousand square kilometers of forest were going to the ground per year. In 2014, there were 5 thousand square kilometers, still a horror, more than triple the area of ​​the city of São Paulo. In the last 12 months, 13 thousand square kilometers were gone, another year of record for the Pocket Narist. To top it off, the government hid the numbers so Bolsonaro wouldn’t cause further upheaval at the Scottish climate meeting.

This is a dictatorship thing, as it was a dictatorship thing to hide the daily number of deaths in the epidemic long enough for them not to appear in Globo’s “National Newspaper” in 2020, the idea of ​​the generals behind the death of Planalto and Saúde. of communication got together and started to publish the statistics, as they still do today.

Education is under the command of obscurantists and fanatics who dismantle the ministry and are dedicated to barring entrance exam questions with reasons that seem to those of the censors of the military dictatorship. The Public Ministry and the Federal Court of Accounts will finally take a look at the atrocities of the ministry.

When it comes to police in the Bolsonaro government, it is either about encouraging mutiny or investigating undue interference. Public safety program? It is a corpse that Sergio Moro took with him when he was thrown out of government. No other was born.

The general officers who remained in the barracks now say they are “disappointed” with Bolsonaro, who were not pocketnaristas, despite the wake that takes generals from the High Command of the Army to the Plateau. They are now Morists.

Yes, this is also a government of the military party, in its mouth and in ideology, a partner in the center. The generals were quiet. They try to sneak out of the house that they helped to explode. The salary increases are intact.