Your example of not helping out pensioners with heating costs make sense. But here in Australia, as you would know, there is a housing crisis and i believe there has (maybe not so much now) been a shortage of construction workers/trades and materials to do construction. So not so much money was a limiting factor, but more materials and workers. So, would it be a case of the government having to more actively manage their spending so they don't compete for scarce resources in other sectors at certain times?
For example, if there is a shortage of construction workers, but an excess of tech workers, direct government spending towards IT and cybersecurity projects?
I really don't know what i'm talking about here. Just asking.
Hi Steve
Your example of not helping out pensioners with heating costs make sense. But here in Australia, as you would know, there is a housing crisis and i believe there has (maybe not so much now) been a shortage of construction workers/trades and materials to do construction. So not so much money was a limiting factor, but more materials and workers. So, would it be a case of the government having to more actively manage their spending so they don't compete for scarce resources in other sectors at certain times?
For example, if there is a shortage of construction workers, but an excess of tech workers, direct government spending towards IT and cybersecurity projects?
I really don't know what i'm talking about here. Just asking.