Global Crisis - Part II
Friday, 19. December 2008, 15:02:03
Regular people like me in Brazil are seeing that things are going to the 'hole' as we say here.
Companies firing. New offices and factories closing their doors. People are in debt... and much more.
The worse thing I've been watching is the price at supermarkets.
10 years ago, with R$ 300 reais (1 dollar = 2,60 reais... more or less) you would get out the supermarket with many things. A big quantity of itens and your car would be full. Now, when you go the supermarket, you spend 300 reais and you can't buy even the half of the things you used to buy.
Me and Francis need to go almost every week. Most because we need fruits and vegetables. And the best day for it is Monday. So, we go and buy fruits, vegetables and something else that have finished. We always spend almost 200 reais a week. So, in a month, 4 weeks, 800 reais. And we just buy what we need, not what we would like to. Because when we buy something 'out the list' the bill is much more than 200 reais. And we always get out there sad
We feel stolen.
Our dear President is always saying that everything is normal. He always says that.
The financial institutions give the numbers of the inflation, and he says 'that's ok'. Ok to him, that don't have to pay his bills. We do!
The only sector which is having profits untill now, is the banking. The brazlian banks are the number ones in the economic structure and they have more profits than anything else.
We, regular people, work at companies and offices (some have their own business). We have our salary once a month, or divided twice a month (15th/30th day) and besides the commom bills (water, gas, eletricity, phone, etc) we have to eat. And when we go every week we see more clearly how the products are getting more expesive each week.
Beans, that we used to buy at 3 reais/packet, now we buy for 6.
Rice, we bought for 1 real/packet, now 2 or 3.
Meat, we bought 10 reais/kg (good meat, quality one), now 15, 16 reais/kg.
The frozen itens, like lasagna, pizza, chicken, etc... you have no idea how expensive they are!
If we buy just the minimum, we spend a lot. If we buy some more, some deli, for example, we spend much more.
In the beggining of this month, I read an article at Folha about the food price. They did a market research in 17 states of the country and in 11 states, they had the 'basic' food price increased (where I live is one of them).
According to Dieese (Estathistic Department and Economic Education) the basic salary in Brazil should be R$2.007,84 (the necessary to provide food, home, health, education, cloth, means of transportation, personal hygiene, leisure and social security) and the real salary brazilians have right now is R$415,00 reais, in other words, 4 times less than the really necessary.
Of course, people have different salaries according to the companies they work and qualificatons, but the companies and offices which pay R$415 reais to an employee... you can imagine how miserable a life can be!
I can't imagine how would be living with 415 reais!!! It can be horrable! No good food, buy clothes and shoes once a year (not that I buy every month), no leisure... I have friends that get more than 1.300,00 reais a month and they really don't have a good life!! It's such a bad life and our dear President saying that everything is fine!
Living in Brazil is hard, specially when you have someone trying to force you to believe that the country is amazing and the economy is great!!!
Companies firing. New offices and factories closing their doors. People are in debt... and much more.
The worse thing I've been watching is the price at supermarkets.
10 years ago, with R$ 300 reais (1 dollar = 2,60 reais... more or less) you would get out the supermarket with many things. A big quantity of itens and your car would be full. Now, when you go the supermarket, you spend 300 reais and you can't buy even the half of the things you used to buy.
Me and Francis need to go almost every week. Most because we need fruits and vegetables. And the best day for it is Monday. So, we go and buy fruits, vegetables and something else that have finished. We always spend almost 200 reais a week. So, in a month, 4 weeks, 800 reais. And we just buy what we need, not what we would like to. Because when we buy something 'out the list' the bill is much more than 200 reais. And we always get out there sad
We feel stolen.Our dear President is always saying that everything is normal. He always says that.
The financial institutions give the numbers of the inflation, and he says 'that's ok'. Ok to him, that don't have to pay his bills. We do!
The only sector which is having profits untill now, is the banking. The brazlian banks are the number ones in the economic structure and they have more profits than anything else.
We, regular people, work at companies and offices (some have their own business). We have our salary once a month, or divided twice a month (15th/30th day) and besides the commom bills (water, gas, eletricity, phone, etc) we have to eat. And when we go every week we see more clearly how the products are getting more expesive each week.
Beans, that we used to buy at 3 reais/packet, now we buy for 6.
Rice, we bought for 1 real/packet, now 2 or 3.
Meat, we bought 10 reais/kg (good meat, quality one), now 15, 16 reais/kg.
The frozen itens, like lasagna, pizza, chicken, etc... you have no idea how expensive they are!
If we buy just the minimum, we spend a lot. If we buy some more, some deli, for example, we spend much more.
In the beggining of this month, I read an article at Folha about the food price. They did a market research in 17 states of the country and in 11 states, they had the 'basic' food price increased (where I live is one of them).
According to Dieese (Estathistic Department and Economic Education) the basic salary in Brazil should be R$2.007,84 (the necessary to provide food, home, health, education, cloth, means of transportation, personal hygiene, leisure and social security) and the real salary brazilians have right now is R$415,00 reais, in other words, 4 times less than the really necessary.
Of course, people have different salaries according to the companies they work and qualificatons, but the companies and offices which pay R$415 reais to an employee... you can imagine how miserable a life can be!
I can't imagine how would be living with 415 reais!!! It can be horrable! No good food, buy clothes and shoes once a year (not that I buy every month), no leisure... I have friends that get more than 1.300,00 reais a month and they really don't have a good life!! It's such a bad life and our dear President saying that everything is fine!
Living in Brazil is hard, specially when you have someone trying to force you to believe that the country is amazing and the economy is great!!!
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