This Is Not My Beautiful Fish
Order the "grouper" in the Tampa Bay area, and you're more than likely to get anything but. A St. Petersburg Times survey of 11 restaurants featuring grouper showed that six served their customers a cheaper fish instead.
The same thing happens all the time in American government, metaphorically speaking. Take Social Security: We ordered a "safety net," and got a Ponzi scheme. We ordered Health Care reform and got the Bush Medicare expansion.