Cempaka Business and Economy: $4 Billion Left Over On State Budget

"A Summary" – Apr 2, 2011 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Religion, Shift of Human Consciousness, 2012, Intelligent/Benevolent Design, EU, South America, 5 Currencies, Water Cycle (Heat up, Mini Ice Ace, Oceans, Fish, Earthquakes ..), Middle East, Internet, Israel, Dictators, Palestine, US, Japan (Quake/Tsunami Disasters , People, Society ...), Nuclear Power Revealed, Hydro Power, Geothermal Power, Moon, Financial Institutes (Recession, Realign integrity values ..) , China, North Korea, Global Unity,..... etc.) - (Text version)

"The Timing of the Great Shift" – Mar 21, 2009 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) - (Text version)

“ … Here is another one. A change in what Human nature will allow for government. "Careful, Kryon, don't talk about politics. You'll get in trouble." I won't get in trouble. I'm going to tell you to watch for leadership that cares about you. "You mean politics is going to change?" It already has. It's beginning. Watch for it. You're going to see a total phase-out of old energy dictatorships eventually. The potential is that you're going to see that before 2013.
They're going to fall over, you know, because the energy of the population will not sustain an old energy leader ..."

"Update on Current Events" – Jul 23, 2011 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) - (Subjects: The Humanization of God, Gaia, Shift of Human Consciousness, 2012, Benevolent Design, Financial Institutes (Recession, System to Change ...), Water Cycle (Heat up, Mini Ice Ace, Oceans, Fish, Earthquakes ..), Nuclear Power Revealed, Geothermal Power, Hydro Power, Drinking Water from Seawater, No need for Oil as Much, Middle East in Peace, Persia/Iran Uprising, Muhammad, Israel, DNA, Two Dictators to fall soon, Africa, China, (Old) Souls, Species to go, Whales to Humans, Global Unity,..... etc.)

"The Recalibration of Awareness – Apr 20/21, 2012 (Kryon channeled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Old Energy, Recalibration Lectures, God / Creator, Religions/Spiritual systems (Catholic Church, Priests/Nun’s, Worship, John Paul Pope, Women in the Church otherwise church will go, Current Pope won’t do it), Middle East, Jews, Governments will change (Internet, Media, Democracies, Dictators, North Korea, Nations voted at once), Integrity (Businesses, Tobacco Companies, Bankers/ Financial Institutes, Pharmaceutical company to collapse), Illuminati (Started in Greece, with Shipping, Financial markets, Stock markets, Pharmaceutical money (fund to build Africa, to develop)), Shift of Human Consciousness, (Old) Souls, Women, Masters to/already come back, Global Unity.... etc.) - (Text version)

“… The Shift in Human Nature

You're starting to see integrity change. Awareness recalibrates integrity, and the Human Being who would sit there and take advantage of another Human Being in an old energy would never do it in a new energy. The reason? It will become intuitive, so this is a shift in Human Nature as well, for in the past you have assumed that people take advantage of people first and integrity comes later. That's just ordinary Human nature.

In the past, Human nature expressed within governments worked like this: If you were stronger than the other one, you simply conquered them. If you were strong, it was an invitation to conquer. If you were weak, it was an invitation to be conquered. No one even thought about it. It was the way of things. The bigger you could have your armies, the better they would do when you sent them out to conquer. That's not how you think today. Did you notice?

Any country that thinks this way today will not survive, for humanity has discovered that the world goes far better by putting things together instead of tearing them apart. The new energy puts the weak and strong together in ways that make sense and that have integrity. Take a look at what happened to some of the businesses in this great land (USA). Up to 30 years ago, when you started realizing some of them didn't have integrity, you eliminated them. What happened to the tobacco companies when you realized they were knowingly addicting your children? Today, they still sell their products to less-aware countries, but that will also change.

What did you do a few years ago when you realized that your bankers were actually selling you homes that they knew you couldn't pay for later? They were walking away, smiling greedily, not thinking about the heartbreak that was to follow when a life's dream would be lost. Dear American, you are in a recession. However, this is like when you prune a tree and cut back the branches. When the tree grows back, you've got control and the branches will grow bigger and stronger than they were before, without the greed factor. Then, if you don't like the way it grows back, you'll prune it again! I tell you this because awareness is now in control of big money. It's right before your eyes, what you're doing. But fear often rules. …”

Monday, January 04, 2010

$4 Billion Left Over On State Budget

Jakarta Globe, Don Bisara & Muhamad Al Azhari

The government managed to collect Rp 866.8 trillion in total revenue in 2009, lower than the targeted Rp 871 trillion, partly due to the economic downturn hitting commodity exports and corporate receipts falling. (Reuters Photo)

The government has failed to spend Rp 38 trillion ($4 billion) of its 2009 budget due to inefficient bureaucracy and poor planning, despite much of the proposed spending being part of the stimulus package to help weather the global economic crisis.

“This is not the first time the government has money left over in their budget. This shows they are slow in spending the budget but very fast in making debt,” Hendri Saparini, an analyst from think-tank Econit, said on Sunday.

Anticorruption regulations also continued to slow spending, as officials feared being hauled in for graft. Analysts said reluctance to spend meant funds to boost the economy were not put into play. The situation has prompted a senior lawmaker to warn government agencies to spend their allocated budgets or else.

Adding insult to injury, the Finance Ministry had raised Rp 125.2 trillion to plug an expected 2.4 percent deficit in the state budget. But because only Rp 87.2 trillion of that money was spent, the government is now paying interest on Rp 38 trillion in idle debt.

“If this continues, it will burden future budgets as we have to pay back debt that has produced nothing for us,” Hendri said.

The Finance Ministry said in a news release on Friday that the state budget deficit was only 1.6 percent of gross domestic product for 2009, lower than the earlier 2.4 percent estimate that took the proposed stimulus into account.

However, the country fared better with its spending than in 2008, when the government still had Rp 80 trillion in unspent financing from foreign and domestic sources.

Harry Azhar Azis, chairman of the House of Representatives budget commission, said agencies and local governments that failed to meet spending targets would be sanctioned.

“The punishment could be in the form of budget cuts for the year after,” Harry said. “We will discuss with the [central] government how to scrutinize what’s wrong at the disbursement level. Is this because of officials or the regulations?”

State revenue from taxes was Rp 641.2 trillion in 2009, or 1.7 percent below the government’s goal, and non-tax revenue was Rp 224.5 trillion, or 3 percent above target.

The government managed to spend Rp 954 trillion in 2009, which was 4.7 percent below the targeted amount in the revised total budget of Rp 1,000.8 trillion.

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