Ever notice all the construction?

Here in America, always construction everywhere, mostly the freeways around cities..

seems to me, wanna catch up on the budget..stop the construction for awhile..you know that shit is expensive?

Why do you think it continues despite the economies supposed turmoil?


Do you see it where you live?

How about overseas?

 

It continues, in part, because there are lobbies pushing it. However, it does provide jobs and improve infrastructure. I would be in favor of stopping a lot of other ways that we waste our money before pulling funding from this.

 

Yep it does.

Also municipalities govern their own budgets and project planning. Certain districts can afford to undertake expensive projects while others cannot. Thank you high property taxes for making my neighborhood pretty and clean.

 

Shovel ready, look it up.

 

Good question. I would say because most of the economic turmoil we hear about affects mostly the average person. As the government sucks more more out of people, the people have less and the government and corporations have more, so of course they have the money to build infrastructure, expand the police and surveillance state, etc. And of course the powerful ones in charge could not care less about improving living conditions for the average pleb. There is money out there... LOTS of it. The question is, who has it? Wealth is never lost during times of economic strife -- it is merely transferred. There is a lot of truth to the saying about the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer.

 

im loving all there inquiries

 

And how many of the buildings that have been constructed in the past 10 years are now vacant?

 

what construction? sure, the highways all have "work zone, speed limit drastically lowered, fines doubled" signs all along them with an occasional orange barrel thrown in the ditch to make it a little more believable, but there's never anyone there working, and nothing ever gets done. it's just a scam to extort more money off travelers in the form of speeding tickets.

i really wish there actually was some road construction around here. i'm sick of having to drive 10 mph in order to not break my tire off in a pothole.

 

Almost every highway in my county is either in good shape or has been repaved in the last 2 or 3 years. We just repaved the last highway that was in mediocre shape about a year ago or so.

 

Not too much happens here but Munich is always vibrating away under jackhammers.

 

Here in the Netherlands, there is always construction going on. Except in wintertime, then we all watch speed-skating.

 

They're throwing up a lot of skyscrapers around London,especially in the City and around Docklands.I've always been fascinated by tall buildings as sculptural forms.Of course you can't ignore the phallic symbolism of them.Also not so keen on the banksters at work inside of them,although the financial service industry here in the UK does make a big contribution to our GDP,as manufacturing has declined.Physical assets such as buildings are one of the few things that are holding value.

We are entering a new housing bubble here in the UK,which is helping to prop up our economy at the moment,but which could crash anytime.But prices of existing houses are very high,ensuring that those on modest incomes are not able to buy and get on the ladder.Meanwhile,expensive properties in London are being bought up by rich foreign investors and not actually lived in.

What we need are proper housing associations to build affordable houses and flats that people can actually afford to buy or rent cheaply and live in.I think this is true to say of most western economies.

What has actually happened though due to the actions of our government is that money supply to housing associations has been cut by two thirds,in order to artificially raise prices of existing houses in private hands,so as to buy votes for the next election.