Boondoggle

During the 1930's the WPA was accused of paying unemployed men to dig a ditch in the morning and then paying another group of men to fill the ditch in in the afternoon.  This was an example by those opposed to the New Deal of a "boondoggle".  A government program that was a waste of tax payers money.  

Now we have a much grander and more modern example of a boondoggle.  Any number of US corporations were paid-with tax payers money-to build an US Army headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan for the cost of $ 34,000,000.  Next year another groups of US corporations will be paid to dismantle that same headquarters structure.  

The decision to build was made by the Obama admin in 2011 after the US Army said they did not want the building and would have no use for it.