"Multinational companies invest here for a number of reasons – language, infrastructure, educated workforce, etc, but being in the EU and being able to conduct European-wide business from the UK is a major incentive".
Investing in modernizing infrastructure, educating our people and efficient energy so our economy is more competitive is not "serious".
The deficit cutters insist that the government should cease investment in infrastructure, educating kids, taking care of the poor and elderly and protecting regular people against powerful interests.
The plan was that by cutting the funding for government, government would have to cut back on what it does: regulating business, protecting regular people against powerful interests, building infrastructure, educating kids, taking care of the poor and elderly.
Phil, repairing our deteriorating infrastructure, educating our kids and preparing for a future of good jobs in new competitive industries and services will cost trillions, and if our richest and most accomplished citizens do not lead the way and help pay for it, who will? "Our country cannot succeed when a shrinking few do very well and a growing many barely make it".
At the same time there are millions of jobs that obviously need to be done, maintaining and modernizing our infrastructure, educating our people, moving us away from oil and coal and otherwise improving our health and our lives and out spirits.
It decided to score its budget proposals in a way that ignores the potential return on investments we might make in infrastructure, educating our children, or providing them health care, while enshrining "smoke and mirrors" estimates of the potential return on tax cuts that benefit their base, the people George W. Bush once called "the haves and the have mores".
The reluctance of developing countries is based on the fact that they have to bear significant costs of adjusting to the TRIPS Agreement, which requires institutional and judicial infrastructure to educate, inform, implement, regulate, manage and enforce IPR protection provisions.
Bermuda grew as an international business centre because of the island's strong infrastructure, its educated workforce, attractive legal framework and low tax structure.
Afghanistan is fragile; it has no infrastructure; its educated citizens have fled; and impoverished Afghans have been living in tents in Pakistan.
