In Hong Kong, the tiny corner of China where it is still permitted to gather freely outside a McDonald’s, several thousand people took to the streets last weekend. They were protesting at the contents of the budget. But, unlike their counterparts in Greece and Ireland, they were not lamenting cuts to public services necessitated by big deficits. Rather, they were outraged by what their government was proposing to do with its large surplus: give each and every one of them HK$6,000, or about US$770.
在manbetx3.0 偏居一隅的弹丸之地——香港,政府仍允许民众在麦当劳(McDonald’s)餐厅外自由集会。3月6日,就有数千人走上街头,抗议政府财政预算案的内容。但与希腊和爱尔兰的抗议者不同,香港民众并不是抱怨政府因高额赤字而被迫削减公共服务支出。相反,令他们感到愤怒的,是政府处置庞大财政盈余的方案:向每位成年市民派发6000港元,约合770美元。