We are in ‘Nonagathaya’, New Year is on the way: Prime Minister

I Like ur last few words more than rest

කිත්සිරි ද සිල්වා wrote:Soon he will be chauffeur driven.
(In a bullet proof car with blacked windows / a Flag Mast and a few STARs on the bumper).    

HAL9000 wrote:
Chutiputha is a government servant eh! Did you get your vehicle  permit?

Think DEEPER...

MR had to choose cronies to be in power and its no wonder for this Govt too but
its not wise cz ppl didn't elect them to run naked with cronies.. So at all cost idiots, mutts to never be elected is my hope..

And we had no democracy.. I repeat.. NO DEMOCRACY..
may be we had "DE MO CRAZY.."
Cuz in a democratic society a president dont send the other presidential
candidate to prison, he does not poke his nose in Judiciary system and remove a CM.

So a person may be biased towards the regime but I dont see them thinking Deeper
on what happened previously and what how ashamed we were as a country setting examples of rapist, thugs, drug smugglers to stay FREE.. Even prev. president seeing embracing them.. How unfortunate we had been?

A regime lasted 10 years and took the last 5 years to develop.. But we're giving
all the odd looks and evil thoughts to the 11 months Govt.
So Think deeper...How democratic are we too?

Chuti - with all those concessions I dont think these ppl can run the GOVT. Their one priority is reducing $ pressure now.. A lot of vehicles being brought down in 2015
and SL sent a lot of money abroad.. and what we have as foreign income is the House maids and a lil bit of tea exports..

So 10000 hike to  public is not enuf or nobody got it yet?
And im surprises how they finance this 10000 even with no money.. Recent fund raising was from the Euro bonds.. Can someone shed lite?

Why only mps getting permits,,u know in parliment health center those mps spending millions of rupees for vitamins,,suppliments,,
U know about their meals and wastage.,..,
Ppl suffering

Yah Smlv i agree with u,so y they created a dreams?if they knew that they cant,they couldnt do so..

smallville wrote:
Chuti - with all those concessions I dont think these ppl can run the GOVT. Their one priority is reducing $ pressure now.. A lot of vehicles being brought down in 2015
and SL sent a lot of money abroad.. and what we have as foreign income is the House maids and a lil bit of tea exports..

chutiputha wrote:Yah Smlv i agree with u,so y they created a dreams?if they knew that they cant,they couldnt do so..

smallville wrote:
Chuti - with all those concessions I dont think these ppl can run the GOVT. Their one priority is reducing $ pressure now.. A lot of vehicles being brought down in 2015
and SL sent a lot of money abroad.. and what we have as foreign income is the House maids and a lil bit of tea exports..

Dreams were given in December/Jan. After which for some reason vehicle imports started to boom. Enough cars for next 2-3 years have been imported this year. So promise fulfilled?

First Guy wrote:

chutiputha wrote:Yah Smlv i agree with u,so y they created a dreams?if they knew that they cant,they couldnt do so..

smallville wrote:
Chuti - with all those concessions I dont think these ppl can run the GOVT. Their one priority is reducing $ pressure now.. A lot of vehicles being brought down in 2015
and SL sent a lot of money abroad.. and what we have as foreign income is the House maids and a lil bit of tea exports..

Dreams were given in December/Jan. After which for some reason vehicle imports started to boom. Enough cars for next 2-3 years have been imported this year. So promise fulfilled?

In real terms this out of control measures to please the public merely targeting elections that made dollar to run out of control

yellow knife wrote:

First Guy wrote:

chutiputha wrote:Yah Smlv i agree with u,so y they created a dreams?if they knew that they cant,they couldnt do so..

smallville wrote:
Chuti - with all those concessions I dont think these ppl can run the GOVT. Their one priority is reducing $ pressure now.. A lot of vehicles being brought down in 2015
and SL sent a lot of money abroad.. and what we have as foreign income is the House maids and a lil bit of tea exports..

Dreams were given in December/Jan. After which for some reason vehicle imports started to boom. Enough cars for next 2-3 years have been imported this year. So promise fulfilled?

In real terms this out of control measures to please the public merely targeting elections that made dollar to run out of control

of course. As usual.

If it had not been stopped, $ outflow would not have stopped either.

chutiputha wrote:Yah Smlv i agree with u,so y they created a dreams?if they knew that they cant,they couldnt do so..

smallville wrote:
Chuti - with all those concessions I dont think these ppl can run the GOVT. Their one priority is reducing $ pressure now.. A lot of vehicles being brought down in 2015
and SL sent a lot of money abroad.. and what we have as foreign income is the House maids and a lil bit of tea exports..

FG answered this question.. Let me elaborate more..

A lot of hype were told pre presidential election. But the situation was under control. $ was way below 138. And a big impact was seen aftermath. A lot of ppl, as FG said, brought vehicles down and they might have sensed an increase is on the cards if the Govt changes. So we saw a lot of vehicles coming down, as FG also said, we've enuf cars for not only 2-3 years, may be for another 4-5 years. With increased prices ppl will only buy these slowly.. So will take time.
Then all economies fell with Yuan devaluation by China. China wanted to boost the exports and that was inevitable. With increased number of card in July-August, $ became stronger and went up..
So without increasing the vehicle tax, imposing various indirect tax, the Govt could not control the situation. Even the rupee to become stronger, it would take a lot of time with all these tax increases even.
I dont think govt did a blunder but they had no control of the situation they've been brought to.. Only ST remedy is to mitigate the risk of upward dollar movement by penelizing the vehicle importers.

The only blunder hey did was increasing the Emission test by 5000/- which with the expected revenue license increase in Jan 2016, this would hit more than 10K for a car to have its revenue license. Small car owners will be impacted big time.