Sentences with word «boondoggle»

We have to take care of them, but it has to come from the heart, not grudgingly given in excess due to a government boondoggle of lies.

President Obama's $ 3 billion pledge to support the United Nations» Green Climate Fund (GCF) is only the beginning of what promises to be one of the most expensive boondoggles in history.

Governor Andrew Cuomo's executive order earlier this month to impose an external monitor on the crisis - plagued New York City Housing Authority has turned into a potential budget boondoggle for the city, with Mayor Bill de Blasio warning on Thursday of the «unforeseen consequences» the order could have on the city's fiscal future.

Because it just sounds like a big expensive government boondoggle, and it sounds like the state is going to start to build the convention center and there are going to be cost overruns and it sounds like every big public works project gone bad.»

Mike, you are probably correct about Skelos and the rest of the Repubs trying to make political hay on this, but Medicaid Fraud has been a problem in this State for 50 years and all the politicians have ever done is to throw money at it, shuffle agencies, people and responsibility around like a 3 - card Monty con near Penn Station and continue to screw the taxpayers with the most expensive boondoggle in the country.

When the process is over, no doubt, millions of taxpayer dollars will be spent, as they so often are on boondoggles such as this is likely to be.

The resulting revolving - door culture has made it tempting for government lawyers, law firms, and corporations to take it easy on people who perpetrate boondoggles at major companies.

Hundreds of billions of dollars have been wasted on «green» energy boondoggles with no measurable benefits.

It's too early to call it a complete boondoggle with certainty since Facebook is supposedly playing a longer game here, but it sure isn't promising.

In a rare example of taxpayer - friendly behavior in Albany, Gov. Paterson and the Legislature have put a stake through the heart of the corporate welfare boondoggle known as Empire Zones.

Even if they never sell enough cars to make an honest profit, there's already been a huge profit to GM in the form of massive federal subsidies and of course, the massive bailout of GM itself back in 2008... Why not throw money at the electric car boondoggle?

Who's going to buy this anemic toy boondoggle instead of Skylanders?

In an apparent first salvo in a public relations campaign to shift blame for the Kemper power plant boondoggle away from himself and corporate management and onto state regulators, Southern Company chief executive officer Tom Fanning admitted that the Kemper plant is not economically viable as a coal - burning power plant.

In an apparent first salvo in a public relations campaign to shift blame for the Kemper power plant boondoggle away from himself and corporate management and onto state regulators, Southern Company chief executive officer Tom Fanning admitted this week that Kemper plant is not economically viable as a coal - burning power plant.

Part massive party, part corporate boondoggle, this epic conflagration of fans, hacks and suits never fails to impress... despite plenty of embarrassing moments over the years.

Regional governments and international donor states, including the U.S., also need to take a hard look at the proposed Red Sea - Dead Sea canal, a potential boondoggle that could cause major problems, including mixing the marine water of the Red Sea with the fresh water of the Dead Sea, which could change the composition of the Dead Sea and cause algal blooms.

Basketball is a mystery to me, but I know a branding boondoggle when I see one.

Last Thursday, the Office of Financial Research (OFR), part of the Federal boondoggle created under the Dodd - Frank financial reform legislation in 2010 to foster the illusion that the government was reining in risk on Wall Street, released a new study showing almost unfathomable levels of systemic and interconnected risk among the too - big - to - fail banks that cratered the U.S. financial system in 2008 and has left our economy still struggling to right itself.

On the other hand it uses and existing source instead of burning 1 / 6th of our feed crop for the ethanol boondoggle.

This pandering, politically correct waste of money bureaucratic boondoggle violates the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution by discriminating against males and ethnic groups not defined as «minorities».

Regarding Common Core, while DeVos has said she does not support what she now calls «a federalized boondoggle,» she has financially supported organizations working to develop and implement the standards for years.

«This is not the first boondoggle in history, but it is one that Connecticut has the power and wisdom to free our students of this year.

So energy intensive is this bitumen boondoggle, it takes up to 1,500 cubic feet of clean natural gas to produce one barrel of dirty crude.

The NY Times has an interesting article on the government subsidized boondoggle to build a zero - emissions coal plant.

And because plastic tends to be a handy material for a lot of consumer goods, even though it's a complete environmental boondoggle, I'm always on the lookout for more responsible alternatives.

Wednesday's news that California solar manufacturer and DOE loan guarantee recipient Solyndra will be declaring Chapter 11 bankruptcy has government critics grumbling about clean tech boondoggles and failed government programs and has analysts worried about the ability of American clean tech companies to compete with subsidized Chinese solar exporters.

Like many, the super-expensive F - 35 purchase strikes me as a major boondoggle.

Thousand Islanders are up in arms about what they call a multibillion - dollar boondoggle by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, a project the Corps claims will keep the St. Lawrence open for year - round navigation

To help crack down on other boondoggles, Liu announced a new «waste hotline,» 212 - NO - WASTE, and a companion website where city employees, contractors and members of the public will be encouraged to report wasteful spending and fraud.