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daltonr
Guest
I can't believe what I'm hearing for the last few weeks about Capital Spending in this Country.
They are trying again to build the National Conference center but to avoid borrowing (at very low rates) they are going to allow a private company to build it and then the government guarentee that they will lease the center from the Private Company.
We won't own it, and the return to the Private company will presumably be a lot higher than the measly interest rates that the government could borrow at.
Schools all over the country are renting Portacabins for as much as €10,000 a year each. One on 5 7 Live yesterday has 6 portacabins €60,000 a year. and it's been that way for a few years.
Toll roads are being paid for over and over and over again because we apparently CAN'T borrow for capital expenditure because that would screw up our Figures and make Europe unhappy.
Nobody told me that joining the Euro meant we had to adopt idiotic financial policies.
Am I missing something here? Is there some great economic
trick that they are using that I'm too stupid to understand?
-Rd
They are trying again to build the National Conference center but to avoid borrowing (at very low rates) they are going to allow a private company to build it and then the government guarentee that they will lease the center from the Private Company.
We won't own it, and the return to the Private company will presumably be a lot higher than the measly interest rates that the government could borrow at.
Schools all over the country are renting Portacabins for as much as €10,000 a year each. One on 5 7 Live yesterday has 6 portacabins €60,000 a year. and it's been that way for a few years.
Toll roads are being paid for over and over and over again because we apparently CAN'T borrow for capital expenditure because that would screw up our Figures and make Europe unhappy.
Nobody told me that joining the Euro meant we had to adopt idiotic financial policies.
Am I missing something here? Is there some great economic
trick that they are using that I'm too stupid to understand?
-Rd