outback to jungle

Musings on experiences of volunteering in Papua New Guinea with some gratuitous domestic social and public comment

Wednesday, July 05, 2006

if the government has no money

then who does have it? Certainly not the workers who get paid K38 for a 44 hour week. So who pays these prices - 4x2 br units pool, water, power, K3.5 million; 7 br hostel, K700 000; 8x2br units, water, K1.3 million; 4x3br units K700 000; 27.8ha land K15 million?
Then who pays these rental prices - 4br house, views, 24hr security, K4000 per week; 3br house, pool, water, power, 24hr security, K3000pw; 3br unit, power, water, pool, K850pw?
Where does government money go that it cannot pay for free compulsory education, for solid roads in the major cities, and for reliable telecommunications and electricity infrastructure?
This University had its Mathematics building burnt down in 1999. The Chinese government is going to build another one for it. The EU and the Japanese are building Information Technology and Post Graduate Accommodation facilities. A 550 student school out near Ramu was destroyed by fire some years ago so the students do lessons under trees which were planted specifically. The Library - a converted contained - was placed on site by Rotary in 1987 functions now as a storeroom. To repeat the question - where does government money go? Where does AusAid (MY tax money) go?

1 Comments:

At 2:48 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Isn't obvios money goes into the back pocket of the politicians.

 

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