Nationalize

I was horrified with Sir Humphrey's idea, "Would that happen to our city as well ?"

"Don't be silly," the senior civil servant chuckled, "Your ex-colonial government is actually going to the opposite direction."

"You think so!? I suppose our freedom of speech is not getting better." I sighed.

"You've misunderstood me. Yes, the Corporation could very well work for the Big Brother. That may happened in a country which tries to know who are speaking against the government after earthquake or train crash - just imagine the Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (KGB) is run by a private company."

"True. But couldn't that also apply to our government?" I asked.

"Alas, rather than privatizing national business, your Donald - or the Legislative Council as a whole - is doing the opposite and actually trying very hard to nationalize private organizations," the retired cabinet secretary suddenly became serious, "Don't you know your government is now doing charity work - which is, by the nature of the thing, a task that should be run by the private."

"Oh, do you mean the Community Care Fund (關愛基金) ?"