Even though the Panama Canal is considered to be one of the most prominent engineering marvels of the world, it is literally built on many losses. During building the Canal more than 25,000 people died, mostly because of disease. Over 20,000 people died when the French set a hope to build the canal, and 5,000 died when the Americans did it successfully. It is a really huge sacrifice.
Most of the time these programs have a budget that was decided by congress and have been in place for many years and it is hard to just cut it because it requires many people's approval.
