It's Fun Wasting Other People's Money

How could anyone have thought this was acceptable?

Local officials were set to gather on Wednesday in San Francisco's Noe Valley Town Square to celebrate their latest win: a single public toilet that will cost as much as $1.7 million to build and won't be completed until 2025. 

But the celebration was canceled after a San Francisco Chronicle columnist highlighted the "mind-boggling" and "maddening" details of the project. 

California Assemblyman Matt Haney told the newspaper that he now considers the price tag "inexplicable."

As the saying goes, sunlight is the best disinfectant.