nz's issue

The problem we are stuck in is that the government is obsessed with upgrading and not starting new. The analogy that fits here is:

The man who can only afford the $50 pair of second hand shoes that only last a year vs the man who can buy the $200 quality shoes that will last him for years.

If every year the man who bought the cheaper shoes bought another pair of the cheaper ones because that is all he could afford, then 10 years down the track, this man would have spent $500 on shoes, whereas the other man would have only spent the $200 he originally invested in.

What i am trying to get at here is that the way our government seems to purchase things for our country, seems to be very much like the person who purchased the $50 shoes, they are looking only as far as the next year and not seeing that a bigger investment now will save them money in the future, and that money saved in the future can then go towards improving other aspects of our infrastructure.

To sum it up, the only way we can get some sort of tangible change, won't be directly visible for us until a few years down the track, but the government needs to pour more money into our infrastructure and investing in our future, rather than focusing on petty issues in the here and now.