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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rapa" data-source="post: 920830" data-attributes="member: 212">(This is an English translation of the 2008 Budget presented by His Excellency the President)  Budget Speech - 2008 PART I 1.   Introduction 1. Honourable Speaker, I am presenting the third Budget of our Government to thisHouse with great respect. I am tabling the Fiscal Management Report - 2008, Revenueand Expenditure Estimates and publications containing information about theeconomy. I am also tabling a Progress Report of last year’s Budget proposals, as a partof this Speech.2. Honourable Speaker, as a result of severe terrorist threats that were prevailed for thelast 25 years, the impact of neglected infrastructure development and failure tostrengthen the domestic economy, we inherited an unstable economy, a backwardagriculture sector, and a country in which development was privileged to a limitedarea. I presented ‘Mahinda Chinthana: Vision for a New Sri Lanka - A Ten YearHorizon Development Framework 2006 – 2016’, to this house along with my previousBudget proposing to strengthen the domestic economy, as an alternative to ‘RegainingSri Lanka’ which undermined the role of the public sector and instead relied onprivatization and globalization to solve all economic problems. As expected, thejourney to build a New Sri Lanka was a challenging one. However, the revival of localentrepreneurs and products is encouraging.3. Honourable Speaker, the ruthlessness and armed power of terrorists, the continuousbrutal human massacres and colossal damages caused to public property, arms andpowerful explosive detected by the security forces and the armories and many shipscarrying weapons which were destroyed through joint operations launched by thesecurity forces, demonstrate the magnitude of the threat faced by our country. Despitethe armed strengths and the brutal actions of terror, we were able to rescue the entireEastern Province, including areas that were in the control of terrorists’ consequent tothe so- called ceasefire agreement, through a successful humanitarian operation. Wewere also able to control the smuggling of arms into the country and restrain illegalfund raising activities undertaken by the LTTE, by strengthening the legal framework.We also managed to curb overseas operations of the LTTE with the assistance of manycountries. With the attack launched on the Anuradhapura air force camp, the terroristwho are desperate and confined to their camps after having faced continuous defeats, more......<a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/5/24/35388/MR%20Budget%20Speech.pdf" target="_blank">download PDF</a></blockquote>

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