Lula: “Good money is money for construction works”
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva held a meeting with 13 ministers in Brasília on Friday (Mar. 10) to discuss infrastructure projects for the country. It is the government’s role, he argued, to boost investments to propel job generation and economic growth.“There’s no use crying over money we don’t have. We have to put the money we do have to good use. That’s why [Fernando] Haddad is finance minister—because he’s creative. If we don’t have money, we turn to him and it’s his job to find it. He and [Planning and Budget Minister] Simone [Tebet] will get the funding we need for investment in the country,” President Lula said as he opened the meeting at the Planalto presidential palace.“We’ll say the GDP is going to grow because we’re going to make it grow. We’re going to create...