Infrastructure investment: Is the UK government doing enough? (debt, financial, pay)

[Baldrick]

I thought this article might interest a few people as the subject is not UK specific.

BBC News - Infrastructure investment: Is the UK government doing enough?

This week's announcement of UK government guarantees for up to £40bn of infrastructure projects was a bold move, designed to revive both the construction industry and the economy generally.
It marks a clear turning point where the government's positive rhetoric on infrastructure during the past few months has turned into action.

[MrRational]

Originally Posted by Baldrick

I thought this article might interest a few people as the subject is not UK specific.

BBC News - Infrastructure investment: Is the UK government doing enough?

And then there is the school of thought that constructing ever more roads and water works...
and the homes, shopping, offices and so forth along them... has only encouraged an ever expanding
vacuous population to expand ever more to fill the space made available.

[texdav]

I would wait and see as we had 700 billion in so called massive infrastructure spending that came to about 30 billion spent; much of it to support projects already budgeted by state governments and pay governamnt workers slaries already governamnt employees. Hope the UK does better .

[NickyQuen]

Being in the UK, specially the Isle of Wight at the moment, we are surrounded by socio-economic regeneration programmes with little resources or proper financial investment. The apparent emphasis or drive is expected to come from voluntary organisations, amateur or professional, to sort out major problems that the UK Government or local councils have being trying to solve since the last war.

I seriously get the feeling that maybe the overall business models are wrong and that the top managerial strategies are flawed (even globally), which leaves us all in the horse manure at the coalface. This is my fourth recession and I am not happy, tired of repeated rhetoric and appalled at the level of incompetence and corruption in major business circles.

They can build the pyramids with motorways on as far as I am concerned but the level of consumerism has gone completely out of control, spurred on by non-accountability and irresponsible domestic accounting. The result being unparalleled family debt and virtually no disposable income. I really feel for the people but youngsters are not taught to harvest in Summer and store for Winter. And the elder statesmen seem to have forgotten that a thriving economy cannot live on air and water.

MBA (Portsmouth University Business School)