These politicians divert your tax payments to their cronies and give you mediocrities at best in return.

Think CAHSR twisted into a humongous detour to Palmdale-Mojave. I call it FailRail.

Or how about the Jerry & Willie Bay Bridge, up to $6bil and counting and apparently rusting out. I like Clem Tiller's suggestion on the HSR blog site:

"Build some support bents under the suspension span, sever the cable, and keep the ornamental tower. Turn it into the causeway it should always have been. This bridge never “spanned” anything other than mud flats and political egos."

And SMART-NWP subsidizing a few cars of grain freight ops and undermining the possibility of a functional transit line on the old SP-NWP ROW.

Need I add BART, the bottomless money pit.