So those nasty people in Legco have messed up the deal that educational institutions cut with government by politicising the issue ('University funding disaster predicted', January 8).
Does it occur to our executive branch that the question of what resources society wishes to distribute to education - or how it wishes to cut the pie between education, health, social welfare and infrastructure - is the whole point of having political representation?
The majority of the population - and therefore, one hopes, the majority of the legislators - accepts the need for cuts.
What is missing is a legitimate channel for us, the people, to participate in deciding what cuts are made: how our tax dollars are to be divided between current needs and future investment. And for us to voice an opinion on whether that future investment is to be in education or in new roads.
This is why I - and many others I spoke to on the march - demonstrated on January 1. It was not to ask for some radical overhaul. It was simply to be treated by the government with the respect with which any decent adult treats another, not to be told, by a stooge of tycoons, that I am too stupid to deserve a say in how my tax dollars are spent.
CHRIS MADEN, Tsuen Wan
