35 Wasteful Government-funded Construction Projects

Combine this map with any of our other maps via ClimateViewer 3D! Check out hundreds of maps and share custom maps!

ClimateViewer 3D

This documentary, in the form of a satellite map, enables you to zoom in on 35 taxpayer-funded public and private construction projects worldwide that will make you wonder at their audacity and cry due to the effect they have as congressional earmarks to get re-elected on the national debt. They include sites involving corporate welfare, enterprise zones, airport expansions, bridges to “Nowhere”, airports and harbors for “No One”, a slow moving 26-lane highway, NFL and Olympic stadiums, mass transit systems, nuclear facilities, a new Homeland Security headquarters, and military nation-building in Iraq and Afghanistan. These project involve a combination of massive cost overruns, total mismanagement, greed, and a lack of accountability,

Tags

wasteful spending taxpayer funded government waste government pork bridge to nowhere interactive map map 3D map educational self-learning individual learning

Map Type

Keyhole Markup Language (Google Earth KML)

Map Source

https://climateviewer.org/layers/MRM/Government/35-Wasteful-Government-funded-Construction-Projects.kml

Attribution

George Stiller, MyReadingMapped™

Map: 35 Wasteful Government-funded Construction Projects by George Stiller and Jim Lee is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Based on a work at climateviewer.org/. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at climateviewer.com/terms.

Creative Commons License You are free to:
  • Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
  • Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material
Under the following terms:
  • Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
  • NonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.
  • ShareAlike — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original.

Jim Lee • Creator of ClimateViewer Maps

I am forever a Boy Scout, lifetime artist, nocturnal programmer, music is my life, love is my religion, and I am the luckiest husband and father on Earth. I speak for the trees. I have a passion for mapping, magnets, and mysteries. Feel free to contact me: jim@climateviewer.com