Around the world, governments are feverishly trying to reverse unprecedented sharp declines with huge increases in immediate public spending. China has even taken a lead. But the bureaucrats who administer (not govern) its Hong Kong territory have come up with a budget for the coming fiscal year beginning April 1 that is remarkably only in its determination to employ more civil servants and fund politically-inspired road and cross-border infrastructure projects whose economic benefits for Hong Kong have not been proven.