Defense waste

From pentagon insiders

People say the Pentagon does not have a strategy. They are wrong.

The Pentagon does have a strategy; it is: ‘Don’t interrupt the money flow, add to it’

Col. John R. Boyd (U.S. Air Force, ret.) Fighter Pilot, Tactician, Strategist, Conceptual Designer, Reformer

Local land use planning

California examples

Not surprisingly, obfuscation designed to let private entities extract value from public goods