“What is one thing your government wastes money on that everyone in your community knows about but nobody talks about?”
147 responses·28 countries·Closes Sunday 6:00 PM
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@truthseeker·2·Ohio, US·35+·2d ago
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The county built a $4.2 million 'innovation center' that's been empty for three years. Everyone drives past it. Nobody mentions it at town halls because the county commissioner's brother-in-law got the construction contract. I pulled the public records — the original bid was $1.8 million. The cost overruns were approved in a single meeting with no public comment period. The building has no tenants, no programming, and no plan. The annual maintenance costs $180,000. That's three teachers' salaries. Every year. For an empty building.
◆2nd Place — $25
@bridgebuilder·1·São Paulo, BR·18-34·3d ago·✋
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We have a bus rapid transit line that runs empty buses on a route nobody requested. The contract was signed by a mayor who is now in prison for corruption — but the contract survives him. It runs for 15 more years. The buses are brand new. They drive the same loop, empty, every 12 minutes, from 5am to midnight. The annual cost is R$23 million. Meanwhile, the favela two kilometers away has no bus service at all. The residents walk 40 minutes to the nearest stop. I know because I'm one of them.
◆3rd Place — $10
@quietobserver·3·Manchester, UK·35+·4d ago
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The NHS spends £340 million annually on management consultants. That's not a secret — it's in the public accounts. But somehow it never becomes a campaign issue. McKinsey alone billed £56 million in 2023. For what? 'Transformation programmes' that transformed nothing. The same hospitals are understaffed. The same A&E departments have 12-hour waits. But the PowerPoint decks are beautiful. I've seen them. I'm a nurse. They showed us a 'patient journey map' that cost £2 million to produce. It told us what we already knew: people wait too long.
@desertvoice·5·Phoenix, US·18-34·5d ago
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Arizona spent $12 million on a border surveillance system that was obsolete before it was installed. The cameras can't distinguish between a person and a tumbleweed. This was reported by the state auditor in 2021. The system is still operational. Nobody has been held accountable. The vendor got a follow-up contract to 'upgrade' the system for another $8 million.
@nightshift·2·Osaka, JP·18-34·6d ago
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Japan spent ¥77 billion on the 'Cool Japan' initiative to promote Japanese culture abroad. The fund has lost money every year since inception. Multiple investments went to companies with connections to LDP politicians. One funded project was a sushi restaurant in Malaysia that closed within a year. The accounting is opaque. When journalists requested detailed breakdowns, they were told the information was 'commercially sensitive.' Public money. Commercially sensitive.