boondoggle

While I think the JSF is quite the boondoggle, this is not necessariy a fair comparison.

Once you deviate from that core idea you end up with an expensive boondoggle that can't win battles.

Creating another construction boondoggle for relatives of connected politicians shouldn't be high on our list of things to do.

The financials simply don't work and almost any route you can name would inevitably be a boondoggle.

Seeing, arguably, the most effective warplane of the last fifty years scrapped for an overpriced, ineffective boondoggle is sickening.

No one in the nuclear industry thinks Yucca Mountain is anything but an idiotic boondoggle.

It's unfortunate that the F35 boondoggle is now also pulling in and sinking the Navy.

Can't have that--people might actually figure out that testing is a gigantic Republican boondoggle.

Because the F-35 has been a huge boondoggle, at the taxpayers expense.

Compile to JS sucks away the oxygen from any such boondoggle.

We're still talking about over $650 million per plane in total lifetime costs, even from the optimistic reports -- just an absolute boondoggle of a program.

The entire military-industrial complex is a boondoggle at taxpayer expense.

Elected representatives bring home boondoggle infrastructure projects with the primary intent of "creating jobs" and "getting reelected".

Okay, let's have that "actual conversation" -- if testing is just a giant boondoggle, what method(s) do you favor for measuring education and achievement in a socioeconomic-neutral fashion?