Opinion – Vinicius Torres Freire: Even on vacation from vagrancy, government promotes year-end destruction

Christmas Eve and the eve of other holidays would be days to talk about another topic or meditation. But we’ve been chased by demons, many on the loose or definitely shameless since 2018. Sorry for the bad manners on this day when the news of doom continues.

Jair Bolsonaro has spent his days doing what he loves most: nothing and blaring atrocities with his demonic sneer and ragged laugh. Despite shameless laborphobia, it is very efficient at destruction. Consider year-end accomplishments.

Civil servant strike

The elite of the federal bureaucracy threatens to strike for wage increases and because of the atrocious government. No, this is not the time to readjust wages, even less so among the civil servants’ elite, as the country is in ruins and average wages in private jobs and jobs are falling. But the worst councilor in the history of Brazil, Bolsonaro, arranged a raise for federal police, one of his electoral “bases”. This favor to friends set off the wrath of other servers.

Hundreds of employees of the Revenue hand over leadership positions. In Education, many surrendered positions because of the government’s destruction program. In Ambiente, decent servants were silenced or ignored. Etc. Destruction takes shape.

Herod against the vaccine

Jair Herodes Bolsonaro, his doormat at Saúde, and the pockets of pocketbook are doing what they can to delay, demoralize and discredit the vaccination of 20.5 million children aged 5 to 11 years. This indecency threatens not just the lives and health of girls and boys, but of all their caregivers, mothers, fathers, grandparents, teachers, etc. There’s no urgency, says the guy at Health. Meanwhile, there’s news of Covid’s booms across the country.

defeat in digital war

Pocketnarism is concerned with waging war against reason, decency and humanity through social networks and other instruments of digital conflict. But, like incompetent cowards, they run away from the lane or pretend to be misunderstood when it comes to something serious or someone who has the strength to subdue them. They are unable to contain the wave of hacker attacks against government websites, such as Health and Post, to name the most recent.

In August, military personnel staged that embarrassing parade of smoking jalobs in Brasília. They went to salute Bolsonaro’s coup campaign, then in the “growing” of propaganda against free elections. National security is doing very well, as it turns out. We have jalopies, a Bolsonaro creating friction with friendly nations, coup generals and people incapable of dealing with bands of criminals that paralyze the federal administration. Hackers are capable of bringing the state to its knees.

For nearly three weeks, the health information system has been down or hampered by digital terrorists.

What’s the next hit? Will the bandits manage to blow up, for example, the government’s finance system? Trading in public debt securities? Air traffic?

Secret budget, exposed rot

The centrão Congress, dominated by the rulers of the Bolsonaro misgovernment, has just further messed up the federal budget, already fattened up by defaults (precatório) and by the sly revision of the spending ceiling. The scarce funds for investment in parish works were further slashed. They forgot important provisions. Etc. Technically ignorant, politically hostage to the center, the government of Bolsonaro is unable to give guidelines for one of its fundamental tasks, the elaboration of the Budget.

That on Christmas Eve and the festivities of 2022 we can write wishes of hope. In 2021, let’s just try to forget about the destruction for a few days.