Continuing his spree of propagandistic programs, president Lula finally released the “Science and Technology PAC”.

The “PAC”, or “Growth Acceleration Program”, is a set of government resolutions that the president says will receive special attention, meaning that any other resolutions by the government are not to be taken seriously… Basically, they collected what they should be doing anyway, and gave it an special name, pretending that they are making an special effort instead of a “simple” government. (sorry this is not an unbiased post)

Since the first large PAC, smaller PACs directed to specific areas started to come. This maximizes the propagandistic effect, since every few weeks the population hears about some important actions the government is making in some specific areas. Today it was released the science and technology PAC. It predicts investments of R$ 41,2 × 10^9 until 2010.

In his speech, Lula said there is no way to compensate the delay in which the country got into 30 years ago (I can’t think of anything special about 1977 other then the acceleration of the growth of punk rock around the world). Among the announces, the president promised an increase of 20% in the Capes and CNPq grants.