This way we will not go far!

Before Raimundo do Rosário was Secretary for Transport and Public Works, his predecessor, Lao Si Io left a trail of lack-of-productivity worthy of note, freezing decisions for half a dozen years.
The confusion that Lao left behind can’t be waded through from one day to the next.
The chaos that he left requires a larger, reinforced team to fix, but here in the Macau SAR, its Government works in a catechism of saving, even during a period of contraction of the economy.
These inherited issues cannot be resolved from one day to the next.
Look at the issue of the Land Law.
It is my opinion that the application of this law has created many injustices for many people and many investors who waited for years and years for a decision by Lao Si Io in order to go ahead with their projects!
Everyone knows that the Land Law could simply have been changed before the damage it did and will do, such as the new rise in prices of real estate!
But there was a lack of courage in the Legislative Assembly, perhaps because the signal should have come from above and did not come. And it is not clear why it did not come, except to assume that we are all prisoners of populists, who would take advantage of this action to say that one is protecting the interests of the businessmen against the population.
Instead of giving more capacity to government departments to face the enormous challenges they have inherited, the Government believes – and the legislators clap their hands – that the secretariats’ budgets should be cut, in this city without public debt or deficit, when there are mountains of problems to be solved, which all require a more reinforced team that can deliver faster and higher quality decisions!
There are fundamental issues that require more investment in a team capable of preparing the future local intervention on the ground, earlier.
Look at the numbers. The office of the Secretary of Public Works had a budget of MOP51 million in 2015. For 2016 it fell to MOP31.7 million and in 2017 it has fallen to MOP28.7 million!
And that applies to other Secretariats as well!
In other words, contrary to what the rules advise – and don’t forget that money loses value every year – the Secretary of Public Works today has a budget amounting to little more than half of what his office had in 2015!
Do you want omelettes, my lords?
Buy eggs, do not be mean!