The ‘error’ of cultural policy
Posted on June 19th, 2009 in Uncategorized
The political culture was, it said the prime minister, one of its biggest mistakes. Thus said, speaking of political culture is not about political culture. Or so-only, not politics, when the culture is known to be an inducer of satisfaction and dissatisfaction. And the disgust and hatred is in love – the opposite of passion. Politically, a political culture, where it exists, also serves to arouse passions, members, supporters. Have on your side artists and intellectuals is to pay the government – they are militants of sympathy, of appreciation. Cultural policy is not to create the militant discontent and cultural activists are the catalysts of the vote.
Before Socrates has made the mea culpa, since the current Minister of Culture explain and quantify the “error”. In an interview with Jornal de Letras, Pinto Ribeiro says things cut. One percent of the state budget for culture? “That never happened,” the “people” haggle “the crumbs that culture is.” And the crumbs? “Runs are wrong, you can not [even] to spend the money allocated in the Budget” and sometimes “bad things are budgeted. Results? “In the last ten years was to spend the equivalent of a budget full of culture.” Numbers? “The MC would have a percent of the OE [Recommendation of the States General of PS], but the maximum that was budgeted was 0.64% in 2001, and the run never exceeded 0.57% in 1998.” And the politics of language? “We were not able to do properly.”
It is the relief of the former Minister Isabel Pires de Lima, to thank the Prime Minister’s honesty. We have two ministers to admit their impotence. If we add to that the fact that we had two ministers in four years, we have the true size of the “error” made by Socrates.
Sentenced to understand it
Long before to obtain formal recognition in the revised Labor Code, as practiced in Autoeuropa is the concept of a bank of hours, a management tool of flexible work schedules. In an industry whose end product, in addition to complex, involve very high costs of maintenance of finished products, the secret to good business is to go adjusting the output for signs that demand will offer.
With successive concessions by workers, without fear of entering a land never before agreed, has been forging a social contract that guaranteed Autoeuropa in direct and indirect employment to thousands and also reached the highest rates of productivity and competitiveness in the group Volkswagen.
The path of compromise here, resulted. And the result is bound once again, even after the refusal tangential (51/49) by the workers of the pre-agreement between the Committee of Workers and Administration unit of Palmela.
The prospects for expansion of assembly lines, when passing this terrible crisis, is such that any clash of classes at the moment would be little less than suicidal.
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