Recently (February, 2006), president Lula surprised public when affirming that "Brazil does not have haste to grow with high
taxes"; what he left perplexos many citizens whom if they remember another presidential swanking in 2004 on spectacular the economic growth of Brazil. In both the cases are patent that the president and its
government consider the economic growth as an end in itself, while she does not pass of a way to better assure quality of life and well-being for all the population; over all the immense contingent of excluded and abandoned. For these, the government offers, with ample national and international spreading, the assistenciais program of "stock market-family", that it incorporated "hunger zero", the "stock market-school" and other projects, also those implanted in the previous government. The preponderant argument that is saved of the hunger and almost guarantees the physical survival of 9 million families - one room of the Brazilian population - that it lives below of the line of the poverty, with less than 1 dollar per day. But, which the effect for the citizenship of these millions of beings, dependent customers of the benevolence and the interests of the politicians? It would be excessively to wait of the public power a strategy of social politics that enxergasse the future most distant, instead of immediate eleitoreiros objectives? For this, it would be necessary to redefine the priorities of the nation by means of an ample participativo process, of consultations and audiences opened to all and in all the regions, what it would correspond to the implantation of the true democracy: the government for the people and for the people. These priorities, contrariamente to the politics current economic-financiers who benefit a lowermost minority of bankers, rentistas, companies multinationals and agro-exporters, would be guided for programs of popular construction, provisions of sanitation and drinking waters, improvement of services of
education and health and, not less important, for the creation of centers of culture, sport and leisure, particularly in the degraded urban areas. These objectives cannot be equated as mere result of the economic growth that, inside of the landmark of the regimen of competitive market, leads inevitably to the concentration of income, the increase of the inaquality and the deterioration of the social relations - that it is in the origin of the marginality, deliquency and of the social conflicts. Another priority is the institucional perfectioning by means of reforms of the judiciary one, of the electoral code, the legislative one, the politics for minors - children and adolescents - and as much others. The ignorance and the transference of the main problems and its true causes on the part of the elites and the governing are in the root of our chronic delay and "subdesenvolvimento". They are distinguished among others, the different distribution of the social product; the access inaquality the jobs, land and to the education services and health, chances of social and cultural participation; beyond the preconceptions and the discrimination against blacks, indians, women and poor persons in general. When pressured, the organic elites and its intellectuals offer the conventional answers: poverty is of the individual responsibility (the poor persons are indolent and incultos); the education will decide its problems and will open the ways of social ascension e, for the delinquents, the necessary society of more repression, policy, arrests and a harder and implacable position...