Rising income levels could help sustain spending, ease debt levels and restore savings rates back to health, but the recent levels of growth in income don't come close to achieving these aims.
"But the question my committee wants to ask is - if you have £50bn to spend on the railways, should you be spending it here?" She said the money would be better spent easing congestion on existing routes by introducing longer trains and building longer platforms.
The jump in business investment reinforced expectations that capital spending would lead the economy higher this year even as consumer spending eases from last year's tax-cut-fueled surge.
If consumer spending stays weak and government stimulus spending eases over the next year, rising exports, fed by a cheap dollar, may be one of the only sources of economic expansion.
In California and Washington, ballot propositions would compel spending on easing traffic flows.
Mr Samaras also wants to increase social spending to ease the pain of a deeper-than-expected recession.
For fear of fueling inflation, Eisenhower refused to lower taxes or increase federal spending to ease the slump.
The spending should ease the way for the next Liberal leader to defeat a badly divided opposition.
Raising federal R&D spending and easing immigration for foreign-born PhDs would boost innovation and company successes, but would not produce many jobs.
