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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (15178)	2/18/2002 3:30:08 PM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

I pay Swedish taxes and get Angolan services/infrastructure in Brazil. To get security we have to build fences around the building, TV cameras and security guard. My daughter studies in private school. The only decent roads are on the hands of the private companies that charges me to use them. I consider the only patriots in Brazil the ones who cheats on his taxes. At least he makes a more efficient use of them. The universities stopped for 150 days. They strike every two years. Every year the strike gets longer. The government acquiesced to their demands and cut R$12.4 billion from the budget to pay the increasing costs. As result more infrastructure gets dilapidated, then sold to private enterprises that can run them for a profit. We are getting more government that we can pay for.