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Remember the grotesque defense-spending boondoggles of the '50s and '60s meant to bridge the "missile gap" with the Soviets and the "swimming pool and redwood deck gap" at the summer houses of General Dynamics executives?
McCain is one (though it should be noted that the big federal boondoggles in retiree-rich Arizona are Social Security and Medicare, not corporate welfare).
On July 17, 1978, the House voted on phasing out federal funding for Tennessee's Clinch River Breeder Reactor, one of the more notorious boondoggles of the period.
Why is this whiz kid's paradise also the world capital of boondoggles, the heartland of the misconceived, misdesigned, and misbuilt?