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To: TobagoJack who wrote (31416)	4/14/2003 2:01:13 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 74559

Get to the root cause first, Jay. From there you can derive the underlying causes of the events and see how it will play. <<cost cutting measure, the government privatized the beach-cleaning task to a private outfit that then promptly fired two of crew.>> HK government is being hard pressed to cut costs. Poorer people say the rich or corporations should get the burden but the rich think otherwise. A union that has gardners, white collar and beach guard have less leverage than the unions that have the health care workers. It doesn't matter if the country is rich like Germany, or poorer like Brazil. It is all the same. How can a government deflate? That's the big question. What Lula or Schroeder are facing is what HK is facing. Unfortunately, those civil servants can't do a SARS to protect them from the cost cutting measures as the medical profession is presently doing. I can just rememebr those nurses that were demonstrating on HK's streets.