The US Army Corps has a history of diving into big construction projects that exceed projected costs, fall short of projected benefits, and, in some cases, create new problems that engineers hadn’t bargained for.
Two of the examples include Everglades restoration and controlling Columbia River salmon predators.
LINK (via Pro Publica)
Think about it like this: the government is a jobs program where accountability doesn’t exist and your tax dollars are never enough.
Thank you Moldy Chum for continuing to prove that government cannot, and will not, solve our problems.