I don't see how you can say that. They spend hundreds of millions on construction projects and then went economic times slow down fall in to a crisis where the only option is to raise taxes (severely) and they do it with all of the extortionist skills of a Chicago mobster. The county itself is a complete disaster from Jimmy Carter all the way up to Pleasant Hill.
You must mean like the huge waterslide/park that the county built (right next to an existing park) in the middle of a drought. Near my office so I see the boondoggle every day.