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Sound familiar?

I was watching NatGeo on tv Tuesday night and there was a show about the Great Wall of China.   Turns out, the Ming Dynasty completely collapsed under crushing debt after going broke building the wall.  It was a great, shovel-ready jobs program that created tons of jobs but failed to stimulate their economy.

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