For every boon there seem to be a hundred boondoggles.
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Do you go to these boondoggles when it's all guys?
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President Obama saw the fault in expensive boondoggles, but failed
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And, yes, some wasteful project proposals were killed before they became boondoggles.
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At least until they turn into boondoggles, which tend to be felt years later.
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Some critics have accused TIGER projects of being "boondoggles," or the equivalent of administrative earmarks.
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Some EB-5-funded projects have turned into boondoggles, producing little or no economic benefit.
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The U.S. nuclear renaissance has also fizzled as flagship projects have turned into costly boondoggles.
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Johnson also had a penchant for grand infrastructure projects, some of which became high-profile boondoggles.
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You know the rest of our long national space story: five decades of orbital-only boondoggles.
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Van Horn estimates that 5 to 10 percent of CETA projects were boondoggles or otherwise wasteful.
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There are smart policies that could stop more Amazon and Foxconn style boondoggles before they ever start.
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Overshadowed by its bilateral boondoggles and multilateral innovations, China's relationship with the incumbent IFIs has been warming.
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As chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Federal Spending Oversight, I see a lot of government boondoggles.
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That laxity — and the prospect of tax dollars flowing to boondoggles — would be concerning at any time.
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When resources are devoted to boondoggles, and companies are run by incompetent cronies, everyone ends up poorer.
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Highway boondoggles involve either pointless roads or straightforward graft rather than inability to execute on perfectly reasonable projects.
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But, too often, necessary repairs take a back seat to glitzy boondoggles that afford politicians ribbon-cutting photo ops.
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By pushing for as much private funding and responsibility as possible, taxpayers can be shielded from billion dollar boondoggles.
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The Taxpayers Protection Alliance today released Broadband Boondoggles, an interactive online map exposing the results of taxpayer-funded government Internet schemes.
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Its water levels are rising even as the city sinks; its solutions to both problems have resulted in some serious boondoggles.
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In the past, federal funds have flowed easily to boondoggles because politics, rather than thoughtful analysis, has directed the flow of money.
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If fiscal hawks cannot even defeat wasteful boondoggles under these conditions, the idea of accomplishing desperately needed spending reform is a vanishing hope indeed.
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But New York's rage at Amazon's sweetheart deal may finally signal a sea change in how the public reacts to these billion-dollar boondoggles.
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Reasonable critics might worry that $250 billion — and even more so $1 trillion — in infrastructure money might be wasted on boondoggles and bad projects.
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However, the mistakes the company made in 211 range from upper-level management boondoggles to simple software bugs that ruined the blessed Apple user experience.
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This has inevitably created a shadowy breeding ground for billion-dollar boondoggles, sweeping civil liberties violations, and institutional ineptitude that makes us all less safe.
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The city best known for fish markets, coffee stores, rain and flannel-wearing musicians is now becoming legendary for its incompetent leadership and its financial boondoggles.
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Even in developing world cities like Jakarta, projects billed as climate change mitigation, like constructing artificial barrier islands, are really gussied up luxury real estate boondoggles.
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In fact, there's plenty of waste at the Department of Defense (DOD), which has almost 750,000 civilian employees and plenty of inefficient boondoggles to speak of.
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Opponents will also claim that the government is a bad venture capitalist, and that a Green New Deal will pour taxpayer dollars into clean energy boondoggles.
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I think a lot of huge infrastructure projects are boondoggles of dubious long-term economic value — even if they create jobs while they are being built.
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"That's before Trump borrows a single dime to fund his Mexican wall, defense build-up, tax cuts, infrastructure boondoggles, veterans benefits and border enforcement initiatives," added Stockman.
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NIELS MADERLECHNERAnaesthesiologistBerlin "In the past, federal funds have flowed easily to boondoggles because politics…has directed the flow of money" ("A view from the bridge", October 22nd).
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After all, what government would ever want to raise taxes or cut spending, if lots of voter-friendly boondoggles could be financed by a tame central bank?
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And while these merchants are investing in new, innovative and inexpensive plants, monopolies are pursuing expensive boondoggles like those plaguing customers in South Carolina, Mississippi and Georgia.
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Congress years ago eliminated funding for these types of pet projects, known as earmarks, after they became derided as government boondoggles, largess and a pathway to corruption.
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To pay for it all, they recommended culling corporate boondoggles and individual tax expenditures that overwhelmingly benefit the wealthy, like farm subsidies and the mortgage interest tax deduction.
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"Supporting these kinds of congressional boondoggles absolutely does hurt our troops, who in turn will not get the munitions and other resources that they truly need," he added.
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In Tennessee and North Carolina, the FCC has taken preemptive action to overturn laws passed in those states to protect taxpayers from city and county-funded broadband boondoggles.
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Picking from among the various conflagrations, mistakes, and Softbank-led boondoggles deals, we dove into Blue Apron's earnings report, which led to a steep decline in its market value.
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The 8 biggest military boondoggles of 2015 Subs like the Georgia have two crews, designated "Gold" and "Blue," which alternate operating the vessels to maximize their time at sea.
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Instead of building roads and runways to last, Trump will end up overseeing boondoggles that will be washed away by the next hurricane that sweeps ashore with an ever-rising tide.
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" In the Wall Street Journal, Kimberley Strassel said that Trump "felt pressured to sign it," while the "Democrats used the bill to hold the military hostage to their own domestic boondoggles.
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This has the advantages of protecting taxpayers, who would normally be on the hook for boondoggles, and introducing private-sector know-how to help projects be completed on time and under budget.
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They'll attack them as gold-plated boondoggles and nothing but welfare for defense contractors; congressional pork spent on pie-in-the-sky extravagances, instead of more reliable, pragmatic, down-to-Earth alternatives.
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An infrastructure program — thoughtfully conceived and well managed to avoid boondoggles and wasteful spending — would produce significant productivity gains for the economy and improve quality of life for tens of millions of Americans.
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That they are all clearly unwilling to fight for the return of bankruptcy protections to student loans, and are instead pushing these big-government, tax-and-spend boondoggles is exceptionally disappointing and astonishing.
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But more importantly, there's something deeply uncomfortable about bemoaning the price tag of Puerto Rico's recovery and then praising one of the most expensive technological boondoggles in the history of the US military.
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What followed was one of the biggest boondoggles in North Korean history, one that played a part in the economic catastrophe that soon engulfed the country, according to analysts and North Korean defectors.
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They'd say he's too ensnared by neoliberal dogma in counting on price mechanisms to drive necessary change, and he'd say they're indulging in central planning fallacies that will end in boondoggles and tears.
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Neoconservative boondoggles had fallen out of favor, and Barack Obama's historic win signaled a new direction for a country that had grown increasingly resistant to politicians and policymakers fear-mongering for their dubious aims.
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These church-backed politicians supported changes like increased regulations and occupational licensing, higher taxes on already cash-strapped communities, more spending on frivolous government boondoggles, and loose immigration policies that negatively impact communities of color.
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The question, however, is whether anyone will want to do that, or if the master-planned community will go the way of other Florida development boondoggles that were also advertised as utopias before falling into disrepair.
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European countries including Italy, France, and Germany meanwhile attempt to organize grand national conferences on Libya within their own countries, but such convenings wind up being more like boondoggles than serious international attempts at conflict resolution.
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Foer, exiting unscathed after a couple of hundred yards, pondered "the ruins of the future," as he put it—a world without frontiers, in which would-be Shackletons are left to navigate boondoggles of the haunted past.
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He plowed through internal documents to bare boondoggles like Boeing's vastly overcharging the Pentagon for its work on cruise missiles, and the Air Force's paying $916.55 each for plastic caps for stool legs that had really cost 34 cents.
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They are credited with putting a lid on public debt and resisting the biggest of the president's boondoggles, a plan to spend as much as 1trn rand ($73bn) building nuclear power plants that South Africa does not need and cannot afford (see article).
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It's also why ISPs like Comcast pay countless think tankers, academics, consultants, and other policy voices to endlessly demonize community-run broadband networks as an automatic taxpayer boondoggles, ignoring the countless areas where such networks (like in Chattanooga) have dramatically benefited the local community.
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BROOKLYN, New York — Operation Fast and Furious is among the most epic boondoggles in the history of federal law enforcement, which probably explains why federal prosecutors don't want jurors in the trial of Sinaloa cartel leader Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán to hear anything about it.
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America just passed huge tax cuts for the rich that will cost the government trillions and generally waste a ton of money in Washington, on everything from defense boondoggles to sexual harassment payouts for members of Congress, the latest version of the ostensible logic might go.
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The other trend that sort of jumps out at me, that I think is kind of interesting, is for a long time people laughed at Silicon Valley, just full of these ridiculous ideas and boondoggles that will go nowhere and companies that are purportedly wildly overvalued and all the rest.
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So, starting in 2022, if you're a contracting officer who works on a digital service project of more than $1003 million, you will need to have this additional certification that makes it more likely that instead of $100 million boondoggles, you'll actually write something where you could have a small system and iterate quickly and deliver something pretty fast. Right.
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Note that fuel taxes, excise taxes on tires, and the like finance more than roads and other services the demands for which are complementary with the demand for fuel; they pay also for urban transit systems and bicycle paths and debt service and education and other such programs and special-interest boondoggles of far less interest to those paying fuel taxes.
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Extracted from Boondoggles, Bonanzas, and Other Alberta Stories, Fifth House Publishers, 2003, as reprinted in Business Edge, January 6, 2004.
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The film prompted criticism of the experiments from other scientists and the American Council of the Blind, with Dr. Grant Mack, president of the Council, calling it "one of the most repugnant and ill-conceived boondoggles that I've heard about for a long time."Newkirk, Ingrid. Free the Animals, Lantern Books, 2000, p.
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A July 2020 news item (written by a lobby group) discussed one method to improve the Sea "to prevent wind spreading toxic dust": refilling it with water imported from the Sea of Cortés; that would require the building of an aqueduct. (A June 9 research report however stated that the cost of "transferring water from agricultural users to the Salton Sea" would be lower and achievable using existing infrastructure).Boons or boondoggles: An assessment of the Salton Sea water importation options The aqueduct proposal, and others, hang on the outcome of a feasibility study expected in late 2021.Valley Voice: Importing water to save the Salton Sea can work.
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The project was named one of the worst boondoggles in the United States by several transportation groups and critics, due in part to the stoppage and its high cost. Tunnel boring was halted by Governor Jay Inslee in January 2016 due to the appearance of a sinkhole in Pioneer Square, but resumed the following month. The machine passed under the Alaskan Way Viaduct in April 2016, requiring a closure while the structure was monitored for movement, and reached the halfway mark in October. Bertha completed its bore on April 4, 2017, arriving at the north portal near Aurora Avenue for disassembly, which was completed in August.
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Secretary of the Army Francis J. Harvey (r) discusses U.S. Army Corps of Engineers operations in New Orleans with Brigadier General Robert Crear, commander, Mississippi Valley Division, USACE in New Orleans, 2006. Some of the Corps of Engineers' civil works projects have been characterized in the press as being pork barrel or boondoggles such as the New Madrid Floodway Project and the New Orleans flood protection.St Louis Today, Missouri State News Projects have allegedly been justified based on flawed or manipulated analyses during the planning phase. Some projects are said to have created profound detrimental environmental effects or provided questionable economic benefit such as the Mississippi River–Gulf Outlet in southeast Louisiana.
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"Anti-establishment" became a buzzword of the tumultuous 1960s. Young people raised in comparative luxury saw many wrongs perpetuated by society and began to question "the Establishment". Contentious issues included the ongoing Vietnam War with no clear goal or end point, the constant military build-up and diversion of funds for the Cold War, perpetual widespread poverty being ignored, money-wasting boondoggles like pork barrel projects and the Space Race, festering race issues, a stultifying education system, repressive laws and harsh sentences for casual drug use, and a general malaise among the older generation. On the other side, "Middle America" often regarded questions as accusations, and saw the younger generation as spoiled, drugged-out, sex-crazed, unambitious slackers.
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Chinese Democracy's protracted recording process attracted extensive media coverage. According to Spin, a cottage industry grew around covering its development; "the only way the record could have lived up to its legend would have been to never come out at all". Five years after its release, Grantland journalist Steven Hyden wrote: "For years, it was widely assumed Chinese Democracy would never come out; in retrospect, the delay is all anybody cares about ... As music, Chinese Democracy is merely the second-worst GNR record; as a figure of speech, it is shorthand for the grandest of boondoggles." Hyden wrote that the album had served as a lesson for acts who took years to release "comeback" albums, demonstrating the perils of allowing backstory to overshadow the work and failing to provide a familiar product.
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He has also expressed concerns about the ethical and scientific oversight of the use of certain tools and techniques by the intelligence, law enforcement, military, and national security communities, considering some of them to be boondoggles. An example includes his serving as the Chair of the National Research Council (NRC) Committee on Field Evaluation of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences-Based Methods and Tools for Intelligence and Counter-Intelligence. In a workshop report from that committee he provided an analysis of the use of voice stress technologies in the detection of deception and said "not only is there no evidence that voice stress technologies are effective in detecting stress, but also the hypothesis underlying their use has been shown to be false." He was also a member of the NRC Committee on Developing Metrics for Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Research;.
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The Opportunity Corridor has a number of opponents, including a grassroots group, Clevelanders for Transportation Equity. Many of the objections are rooted in the upheaval of the local community, which is predominantly lower income and African-American. Other local critiques include a report by the Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative in which concerns are raised regarding a lack of comprehensive vision, lack of meaningful community engagement, poorly designed green infrastructure, and the absence of true multi-modal integration. The Opportunity Corridor was also featured in a report by the United State Public Interest Research Group titled, "Highway Boondoggles: Wasted Money and America’s Transportation Future". This report highlights ODOT's poor enforcement of their “fix-it- first” policy as well as the stagnant Vehicle Miles Traveled statistics for the region in contrast with the increased ridership on the Regional Transit Authority.
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Thomas Flagg, an industrial archaeologist who surveyed this and other waterfront sites for the Army Corps of Engineers in 1984, said the barge canal and the grain terminal never made back their investment; "Both are magnificent works of engineering, but also magnificent boondoggles." The lack of success led control of the terminal to be transferred from the state to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey in 1944. Although in its early years under the Port Authority, the terminal was increasingly successful, it began to decline in the late 1950s, especially after the opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway in 1959 further reduced grain shipments from the Great Lakes to the Port of New York. Labor costs became uncompetitive relative to those of other ports like those of Philadelphia and New Orleans where by 1964, loading grain cost $0.21/ton and $0.15/ton, respectively.
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The Globe and Mail, December 1, 1978. The provincial government also considered proposals to convert the site into a provincial park or a physical rehabilitation center to be operated by the provincial Workman's Compensation Board, which were also not pursued. In 1980, a portion of the site was leased to the Regional Municipality of Sudbury as part of a failed attempt to launch an angora goat farm in the area, which became one of the most infamous economic development boondoggles in the city's history."Angora goat scheme's in a tangle". The Globe and Mail, January 21, 1980. In 1986, Cambrian College professor David Blake put forward a proposal to buy the site and open a for-profit institution at which prisoners would be given unionized paid work,"Unionized Inmate Workers: Ontario Asked to Okay Private Prison in North". Kingston Whig-Standard, March 24, 1986. which was also not pursued. In 1987, the land was parcelled off to various groups.
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Ax the Tax rally Ax the Tax is a citizens group in Florida that leads efforts throughout the state against proposed tax increases for various projects it deems as wasteful government spending. The organization is credited with defeating as much as $47.5 billion in proposed taxes since it began in 1982, although critics say some of the tax initiatives the group fought against would have been defeated anyway. Ax the Tax was founded by Doug Guetzloe, a political consultant and owner of a public relations and marketing firm. He has led the organization to 17 successful anti-tax battles. Guetzloe has been described as having “a sharp sense of humor, an acerbic tongue and a populist message,” according to a reporter for the Orlando Sentinel, which “has built Ax the Tax into a small but highly motivated grass-roots force.” Opponents of the organization claim its anti-tax crusades have taken funding away for environmental lands, schools and roads, but supporters have described many of the tax proposals as “boondoggles,” including multibillion-dollar rail projects that have been rejected by Florida voters four times.
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