1. robbing Peter to pay Paul blows up in your face!
2. to rob or attempt to deceive the public: to boomdoggle home buyers into buying "over their budget" by offering low interest rates and no money down.
Can throwing large amounts of federal money at public works projects jump-start our economy and lead to prosperity or only result in an expensive and wasteful boomdoggle.
A meaningless maelstrom of words and actions intended to resemble progress, insight and ideas, but that actually contribute nothing to solving the problem.
"I found the Presidential debates to be quite enlightening, Henry"