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Friday, August 08, 2014

Evidence is Clear: Obama's Cash for Clunkers Was Huge Boondoggle

boon·dog·gle
ˈbo͞onˌdägəl,-ˌdôgəl/
North Americaninformal
noun
noun: boondoggle; plural noun: boondoggles
  1. 1.
    work or activity that is wasteful or pointless but gives the appearance of having value.
    "writing off the cold fusion phenomenon as a boondoggle best buried in literature"
    • a public project of questionable merit that typically involves political patronage and graft.
      "they each drew $600,000 in the final months of the great boondoggle"
verb
verb: boondoggle; 3rd person present: boondoggles; past tense: boondoggled; past participle: boondoggled; gerund or present participle: boondoggling
  1. 1.
    waste money or time on unnecessary or questionable projects.
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