The pre-Katrina hurricane levee system is a lead contender for the worst public works project in American history.
During Mr. Fox's administration, for instance, a handful of protesters with machetes successfully derailed the government's biggest public works project, a new Mexico City airport.
The money to pay for the teachers or the extended unemployment comp or the public works project will, sooner or later, have to be extracted from the pockets of taxpayers.
"The reality is it's only a month since the government delayed its biggest public works project - the project to build new aircraft carriers - because it said it had run out of money, " he added.
In 2009 the DPJ ran on a quasi-populist and anti-establishment platform, promising on domestic policy to change the central government bureaucracy dominated, wasteful public works project spending driven, and big business and agricultural lobby favoring model of governance that basically described LDP government that had already backtracked on reforms made during the tenure of Koizumi Junichiro (2001-2006).
Almost 30m people have benefited from the government's chief public-works project, the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS).
The plan was accepted and implemented immediately as a massive public-works project employing armies of workers over the next 60 years.
Last week Karnataka state claimed that by paying welfare direct to bank accounts it had cut some 2m ghost labourers from a rural public-works project.
His big selling point to investors: Bureaucratic interference, which tends to stall Indian public works, will be conspicuously absent from this project.
The project illustrates a new principle in public works: mitigation.
The first task of any public-works crew, it seems, is to put up a billboard identifying the project they are working on as a priority of the president.
"Facing the magnitude of what we've lived through, I insist that public works are what will change this story, " Macri said, describing one such project that was achieved through regional cooperation and a World Bank loan the kind of borrowing that Fernandez has sought to avoid.
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