Three things come into my mind.
1) Establishing the road map for getting rid of functional groups and realizing general election in 10 ~ 15 years. Some people will think it takes too long. For me, it is an acceptable time frame.
rockypath 發表於 2011-7-17 21:47 
BS. The 10 year phase out period of functional constituencies is already in the work, and the plan already been criticized to shreds, and your retarded plan takes even longer than the current proposal. Why put up with functional constituency for up another 15 years when they already serve the general public zero purpose? At the moment, their sole purpose of existence is to serve those who already receive major benefits from government policies and continue to protect their interests.
2) Establishing a system to provide affordable housing to HK citizens with the injunction of creating new economies (or diversifying HK industries). I will not support it if the policy is implemented solely.
Why does the two need to be tied? Associating the two together serves no real purpose.
b) Restricting foreign hot money to flow into real estate market and limit foreigners’ purchasing of HK real estate (HK government may not want to do this since it will damage HK’s reputation as an international metropolis and a free market)
Depending on how it is done, this is not necessarily a bad policy. I don't like the term "restrict" because it implies government control, but if it is simply done in terms of some sort of percentage-based levy / tax based on transaction values, then I can see it being viable.
c) Increase land supplies strictly for affordable housing projects
Commercial developers will not have too much interest in this because there is far less money to be made. What the government could do is to borrow a page out of the US gov in their CAFE ratings, and require developers to build a minimum number of affordable housing projects for every certain number of luxury projects. That way, legislation will ensure there are enough affordable housing units around.
3) Invest in developing new economies and set up policies to attract investments both domestically and internationally into these new industries. (Singapore is doing pretty good at it. Many HK people worry about Shanghai is taking over HK as a world finance center. In my opinion, I would rather watch out for Singapore instead of Shanghai.) Establish systems to get average worker Joe to be retrained so that they can get a higher pay job in those new industries.
Since the LMD years, the SAR government has continually been trying to do this and the result has been crystal clear to everyone. All the talk of different industries only resulted in mega real estate projects that only made the big developers even more wealthy. So how do you intend to be different? Last but not least, re-training is no easy feat, and there will always be those who can't made the grade. How do you intend to help them?
-Lik |