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A simple audit of any government agency (if it's being done by someone intellectually honest) would reveal all kinds of fat to trim.
In fact, the excess of these bureaucracies is so enormous that it's hard to explain to the average voter all the little things that add up.
Expense accounts, waste of materials, managerial compensation, insane sweetheart bennies for junior employees, fraud, welfare abuse, too much staff collecting overtime and doing nothing, the list goes on and on.
Even things as minute as the kind of printer toner the agency buys, for God's sake.
Because they don't have to function like a streamlined business, the entire apparatus bloats and bloats unless ruthlessly monitored.
Business know they're spending too much when they fail to turn a profit. Government bureaus don't have that feedback loop.
You would be amazed at the staggering, thoughtless waste that goes on at every level of government. And you can't even blame them, really. They operate under perverse incentives. There is no upside to saving the taxpayers money.
