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.

James Pethokoukis: Oops! Obama’s Cash for Clunkers program ‘actually lowered total new vehicle spending’