No, I am a paid government apologist.  Truly.  And not ashamed of it.

As for banks, they are taking maybe 60% of all the taxes I pay now, via interest on Brazil's public debt.  And yet they are trying to topple the President that I voted for.  So, rest assured that I have no love for them.

(In fact, a few years ago I sued a Brazilian bank over some 30 k USD of inflation adjustment fees that they had wronglfully made many years ago to the financing of our home, that was not even ours at the time. It was a standard lawsuit, the courts had already decided that those particular adjustments were illegal; but each victim still had to sue the bank individually, for the joy of the legal profession.  There are even lawyer offices that do nothing else but those lawsuits, and we hired one of them.  But, when the process finally got to court (a couple of years later), the lawyer just forgot to tell us and did not show up in court -- so we lost for WO, and that meant a lot of troubles besides the loss of the money.  We then sued the lawyer, and his fault was so obvious that we actually won; but the judge reduced the claim to ~8 k USD, since he considerd that we might have lost the original suit anyway.  We should have got that money and forgot the case, but our (second) lawyer talked us into appealing; and that was some 8 years ago, which means that in another 7 the appeals court may look at out case again, maybe.)