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 About 17 million Brazilians, 13% of the electorate, confessed to have traded their vote for money, job or gifts, according to a public opinion poll released Sunday by the Brazilian daily with the most circulation, Folha de S Paulo.
Under the heading "The ethics of Brazilians", and with information from pollster DataFolha, 83% of Brazilian over 16, admitted to have been involved in some form of illegal action or practice.
Although 13% admitted having "traded" their vote in some election, 94% considers it condemnable, and 74% of Brazilian believes that registered voters effectively "trade" their votes with the candidates.
More over 12% admitted to be willing to accept money is exchange for some request from a political candidate to vote for him.
DataFolha concludes that overall Brazilians think correctly about ethics, and understand it, but do not act according to principles.
"Or we are living in Scandinavia and we don't realize what we are doing, or what we effectively do does not correspond to what we say or sustain," said anthropologist Livia Barbosa, who analyzed the results of the interviews.
The poll also revealed that rich Brazilians have committed more ethic abuses than the poor: 97% admit having committed ethical infringements compared to 74% for the poor.
A majority of Brazilians, 68%, admit having bought faked-pirate goods, 36% paid for bribes; 27% illegally downloaded music from Internet and 28% purchased football and music concert tickets from illegal scalpers.
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1) Altough those who "confessed" to sell their vote is 13 %, the percentage is in fact much higher as you could imagine.
2) As I stated so many times, Brazilians are PRO CORRUPTION BECAUSE THEY EXPECT TO BECOME A GANG MEMBER OF WHATEVER POLITICAL GANG AND GET DIRECT BENEFIT....ONE WAY OR THE OTHER !
3) This explain why corrupted to the roots mayors, senators, governors are elected, re-elected time and again by Your People who then say "its all corruption anyway". Sure....they are corrupted too these electors. They too eat pizzas all day long !
As to 36 % PAYING some bribes....normal since it is a type of CORRUPTION !
As to 68 % buying piracy....wellll..... more than normal for natural cheaters.
And as I said above these are confessed people. They dont include those who did not admit anything "wrong" !
Meaning you can add a lot of percentage to the confessed stats.
Somewhat like during your vote buying scandal many politicians guilty pretended to be INNOCENTS despite your investigators proved them guilty !
And finally those were PARDONED by senators just as guilty as the ones they pardoned...of course !
And pardoned in a private vote, so that no one knew who pardoned...obviously !
So disgusting that most investiagtors RESIGNED....but no doubt they found better jobs, better paid elsewhere so that they will keep their mouth shut !
Dont forget my motto :
NEVER EVER TRUST BRAZILIANS.
Cheaters always cheat, liars always lie, hiders always lie !
Proven just once more in view of the above stats, not done by me.
No one can say I am ANTI Brazilians.
I am just anti cheaters, liars, hiders and trickers !
Finally dont even hope for a much better infrastructure in a fast way.
If of all the collected money, A) too much is kept for the well being of your mega army of bureaucrats B) and on top these same people also suck/pump even more money through corruptions.....then MUCH LESS is left for the infrastructure of the society !
SIMPLE AS THAT !