
Originally Posted by
monroy
Believe it or not we have the money for all of those things: hospitals, roads, bridges, tunnels, train systems. It's just that most of the money goes to corruption.
You should also realize that while hospitals to care for our people are good, a bridge to bohol is income-generating, hence it is really an investment whereas building hospitals is just an expense that will continue to drain the government of resources for as long as it exists. Within a decade, a bridge will start generating knock-on effects throughout the whole economy, giving us more money we can then spend on things like hospitals and such.
It may sound bad giving priority to bridges rather than hospitals, but really it is a matter of choosing projects that will be better for us in the long term rather than merely address immediate needs that we later won't be able to afford because we did not make the proper investments in income-generating infrastructure.