Spend, spend, spend

I don't intend to spend, spend, spend my way to financial security. I'm no economist but I do know that anything you don't need is not a bargain at any price. Here are things we DO need, in no particular order, that might have benefited from the injection of some billions of pounds:

• fixing crumbling schools and restoring free milk for primary kids;
• revitalising our bloated and bureaucratic health service;
• a proper re-nationalised public transport and utilities infrastructure;
• an end to fuel poverty;
• proper equipment so that if we have to fight wars we don't want, at least we have the tools to do it;
• £400 million into each of the above; or
  
• £33 for every citizen. It would end up in the banks or in the shops anyway AND it would keep circulating.

Just an idea.