What on Earth were these people thinking?!

"Government As Good As It Gets" Bonehead Award

St. Clair County, Illinois, spent $330 million dollars for a new airport that no airline was interested in using.  For one year, the airport was kept in operation for 12 hours per day, staffed with 27 employees, and a full fire crew and maintenance staff.  In that entire year, neither a single passenger nor even one plane used the airport.  $2.5 million in upgrades were approved for the second year, even though airlines continued to express no interest in the airport.
 

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