So you are a governor, with a budget of x, how do you partition it? It is a tough decision when you really have to.

Imo the best return on investment from government spending comes from 75% infrastructure 25% maintainence 0% marketing. What is the rate of return of this project over any other project that money can go too.

As an employee of government, I know there is no plan. There is never a plan, it's always let's just do something.