This is the type of thing I think a lot about. My hometown is plagued by an outrageous crime problem, widespread poverty, and crumbling infrastructure. They just spent $250 million to extend a park over a highway, another $51 million on a trolley for tourists, $24 million to redo a downtown park, and so on and so on.

Obviously, the funds for these projects weren't fungible, but taken as a whole, this spending in the face of real problems is profane.