That's why giving the government even more money never works: it's not theirs, so a third of a mile of a road nobody uses costs $1.5M, and it will get built any

That's why giving the government even more money never works: it's not theirs, so a third of a mile of a road nobody uses costs $1.5M, and it will get built anyway. Because why the fuck not. An illustrative example was when after the recession the federal government allocated a shitload of federal funds for infrastructure. A busy local road which _did not need repair_ ended up getting torn down and re-paved several times to use the funds over the course of a couple of years. Why? Nobody asked the question why or did the math. There were roads immediately adjacent which did need repair, those still have potholes. Where I live it costs about $1M to install traffic lights on a simple intersection. A local hospital (which I don't even use because it's out of network with my insurance) is raising hundreds of millions of dollars for "renovations" through levies (which are, thankfully, voted down repeatedly). If I were to vote in favor, they'd still charge me hundreds of thousands of dollars if I get cancer and end up getting treated there. Same with "cancer awareness" campaigns. Dude, you're charging an arm, a leg, and a first-born already, why do you need even more money for "awareness"?