The president also repeated that he has no “preference” for any country in his international relations and that he said this to the president of the United States, Donald Trump, when the two met in Washington this month
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) said, this Saturday, the 23rd, that Brazil’s challenge is to start asking itself “how much it costs not to do” so that the country enters the list of developed countries. The statement was made at the inauguration of the new headquarters of Fiocruz’s Health Technological Development Center (CDTS), in Rio de Janeiro. For the president, the inauguration “gives Brazil the certainty that we are not smaller than anyone else”.
“What we hear a lot in the government is this: it’s very expensive. There’s no money. And people never stop to ask themselves how much it costs not to do it. And that’s the challenge we have to face from now on in Brazil, if we want to take Brazil out of the list of developing countries and place Brazil in the list of highly developed countries”, he stated.
He added: “We are not less competitive than anyone else, we just have to dare and do it”.
The president also repeated that he has no “preference” for any country in his international relations and that he said this to the president of the United States, Donald Trump, when the two met in Washington this month. “We want to work with those who want to work together with us and with those who want to participate in the transfer of technology to our country”, he reiterated.
“Investment: quality of transport, quality of employment”
Lula said that Brazil “does not have to be afraid of making investments because investment has a return in the quality of health, transportation, employment”… The statement was made at the inauguration of the CDTS.
“The Minister of Finance in any country in the world, the guy who takes care of finances in any club, any neighborhood association, is there to prevent us from spending money. If the guy has R$10, R$100 lying around and says: he doesn’t have it, he can’t spend it”, he stated.
For Lula, it is necessary to ask the question “how much does it cost not to do it” to “disturb” the government. “Anything that we have to put money into to buy a new asset for the country, something that will add knowledge, that will add a railway, a road, we don’t have to be afraid of making an investment”, he reinforced.
