Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to thank Mr. Mortimer for being here today. I want to pursue a line of questioning that has to do with basic economics. As we learn in Economics 101, we all know that the definition of economics is the allocation of scarce resources.
In government we are elected to make decisions. In the course of our decision-making processes, we are asked to pass legislation and implement certain policies and regulations and so forth. With that goes budgeting, so we're allocating moneys to various envelopes.
Now, given the state of our country's infrastructure, would it not be a better allocation of resources to identify where government could most efficiently put its allotment of scarce resources to get the most value for its dollar, because at the end of the day there's only one taxpayer? Does that not make good economic sense?