The lede this Winston-Salem Journal story is enough —

Winston-Salem explores new bond referendum

…Especially when you get to the part where city leaders say the $139 million passed a mere three years ago was –as the Journal puts it—“a drop in the bucket.” But keep reading—in “other action,” the City Council:

The city awarded a contract in the amount of $1,007,750 for the renovation of golf cart paths at Winston Lake. Winning the contract was High Point Builders LLC of Archdale.

Golf cart paths costing a million dollars, wide sidewalks costing ten of millions of dollars. And we wonder why hundreds of millions of dollars are “just a drop in the bucket.”