Some focus on how European Union funds sent to Greece were spent on wasteful projects.
Re-election of the members of both houses is based upon bringing home wasteful projects.
Private debt has doubled in the past eight years and Beijing has ramped up public investment, often in wasteful projects.
Amid heightened public concern over spending, the White House disclosed that Mr. Obama wanted increased authority to strip wasteful projects from spending bills.
"Instead of wasteful projects, the obsession with academy schools, the zany floating airport in the Thames Estuary, we must concentrate on defending public services and holding down fares".
I gather, from what I've been reading and hearing in various places, that the right-wing line is that it's all Solyndra — that your tax dollars are going to pay for vast numbers of wasteful projects.
I wish the administration would focus more carefully on value-for-money rather than burning taxpayer money on wasteful projects such as high-speed rail and subsidies for green jobs that do not materialize.
And in recent months Brazil has been swept by huge demonstrations, some aimed at Mr. Paes and the governor of the state of Rio de Janeiro, Sérgio Cabral, protesting government spending on wasteful projects.
Toshihiko Yoshimura, a river planning official with the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport here, said the project was endorsed by a committee of officials, experts and citizens, as required by the 2003 law, to avoid wasteful projects.
There were inexplicably wasteful projects, and then suddenly the authentic actor was back - in The Chase (1966), Reflections In A Golden Eye (1967), or in 1969 in the very adventurous Burn! (also released as Queimada).
