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Originally Posted by SebC
Well, even if your timing is a bit off, that's still better than being deliberately cyclical with your spending - which pisses even more money away because you ending building things when they cost the most.
Governments should get through the design phases on projects early so that they can have them shovel-ready and decrease their reaction times.
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The problem with 'Shovel-ready' is that it's not the project development process that's the lag that makes Kaynsian policies ineffective in practice but rather the time it takes to make the identification of the need to unleash the projects that's ultimately the problem and it really has no solution.
I think overall you're arguing for something that isn't necessarily an economic philosophy, but rather a budgetary philosophy that takes a longer term view of things. If Klein in the 90s thought to look ahead a decade in the future where there would inevitably be more Albertans that need Health care, then maybe hospitals wouldn't have been closed down and maybe we would have floated a few more bonds to keep up with the maintainence of said hospitals. That's not really ideology driven as much as it's reactionary to the short term. That might not even be a partisan or even an intelligence arguement since I think a large reason for this is due to election cycles.