When it's government doing the embezzling its not embezzling, it's "raising awareness" and funding NGO executive salaries.
My entire career I've heard that computers were going to replace programmers.
Maybe this time.
The only thing more reliable than an economic prediction is one made by a government economist.
If you didn't recognize that, it's called sarcasm.
The "dismal science". Your average economist is wrong about half the time. A government economist that has never been informed by private enterprise... worse.