WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 1990
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1990-91 BUDGET LACKS PLANNING * * * * *
HON ALLEN LEE, THE SENIOR MEMBER OF LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, THE
OF CONCRETE PROPOSALS IN THE SAID HE WAS DISAPPOINTED AT THE LACK
OF PROBLEMS
INFLATION, PUBLIC SECTOR 1990-91 BUDGET TO TACKLE THE EXPENDITURE AND LABOUR SHORTAGE.
THE BUDGET IN THE COUNCIL TODAY LEADING OFF THE DEBATE ON
AND WERE (WEDNESDAY), MR LEE NOTED THAT THOSE PROBLEMS STILL EXISTED IN FACT GETTING WORSE.
ALLOWED TO CONTINUE, HONG KONG HE WARNED THAT IF THEY WERE WOULD BE HEADING FOR A RECESSION IF NOT A DEPRESSION.
SINGLING
OUT INFLATION GOVERNMENT'S
AS THE NUMBER ONE
ΤΟ RESPONSIBILITY
ENEMY, MR EASE INFLATIONARY
LEE
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SAID: "IT IS THE PRESSURE, PERHAPS DRASTIC ACTIONS ARE REQUIRED,
BUDGET AS ONE THAT LACKED HE CRITICISED THE ANTICIPATION. IT WAS ALSO EXPENDITURE DRIVEN, WHICH HE IS THE EXPENDITURE. NOW, WHICH AREAS OF TAXATION CAN WE TAKE CARE OF THE EXPENDITURE?"
AND
PLANNING MEANT: "HERE INCREASE TO
WELCOMED THE PROJECT,
MR LEE SAID: "WE ALL CITING THE NEW AIRPORT AS AN EXAMPLE,
THE QUESTION IS HOW TO FINANCE IT."
BUT
A
LOT
OF
QUESTIONS
HAVE
PRIVATE TO BE
HE POINTED OUT THAT IT WAS ALL VERY WELL TO TALK ABOUT
WOULD SECTOR PARTICIPATION, ANSWERED AND ADDRESSED,
WANT TYPE
THERE
THE
FROM
IN
THIS
FOR EXAMPLE, HE SAID: "THE PUBLIC AND THE BUSINESS CIRCLE TO KNOW EXACTLY WHAT PORTION OF THE CAPITAL EXPENDITURE AND WHAT
IS THE PROJECT COMMERCIALLY OF SERVICES WILL BE PRIVATISED AND HOW? VIABLE? WHAT WILL BE THE PLANNED PUBLIC SECTOR EXPENDITURE? IF
WILL GOVERNMENT GO AHEAD IS NO PRIVATE SECTOR INTEREST,
MONEY COME WHERE WILL THE PROJECT OUT OF NECESSITY? CASE?"
WITH
IF SUCH INFORMATION WAS ALREADY AVAILABLE, THE PUBLIC OUGHT KNOW ABOUT IT, HE STRESSED.
то
MR LEE EXPRESSED TURNING TO THE SUBJECT OF THE CIVIL SERVICE,
GATHERINGS, SIT-INS, HUNGER STRIKES GRAVE CONCERN ABOUT THE RECENT
OF VARIOUS GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS, AND MARCHES INVOLVING THE STAFF DEMANDING SALARY INCREASES AND BETTER BENEFITS.
WHILST APPRECIATING CIVIL SERVANTS' ANXIETIES AND UNEASE THE FUTURE, MR LEE SAID: "MONEY CANNOT BUY PEACE OF MIND.'
TE
ABOUT
HE SAID: "THE CURRENT GOVERNMENT CAN DO ONLY SO WOULD BE WRONG FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE DAY TO USE MONEY TO CIVIL SERVICE. AS FAR AS THE FUTURE IS CONCERNED, MATTER THAT THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT MUST ADDRESS.
MUCH,
IT IS A
AND IT BUY THE SERIOUS
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