[bogomipz]

>"He never said in the market."

What "they" said was:

>"that is money the government is investing and earning a return on."

"Investing money and earning a return on it" is universally understood to mean putting your money to work in the financial markets. Your comment is disingenuous at best.

Further governments don't earn a "return" when they spend money on a stoplight or a bridge. Infrastructure requires upkeep, maintenance and eventual replacement.

It's a coast center not a profit center. If it was the latter governments would be building infrastructure like crazy and running a budget surplus. And that clearly isn't the case is it?

[brohee]

Investing money is certainly not universally understood as investing it in financial markets... (Per Oxford dictionary: https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/investment)

You have the right to your opinion, but changing words meaning is taking it a bit far.

[bogomipz]

Except the phrase was not "investing", it was "investing money and earning a return on it." Maybe you should reread the thread.

In the context of a government or any other large institution this is most certainly understood to mean the financial markets. That is not "opinion" but rather common understanding in English language business parlance.

You have resorted to cherry picking words and trying to play semantic games. You have added exactly nothing to the conversation. In fact it's worse as resorting to "that's just your opinion" type remarks just degrades the level discourse. It's just slightly above name calling.