Government Waste

Based on my experience I've worked with very few public sector employee's that actually care about their job (therefore don't actually do their job).  The lack of useful incentives keeps talent out and what is left is a work force that is both unwilling and in many cases unable to do the job.  It has reached epidemic proportions.  Luckily the government sends more money to contractors than it does to government workers - and the private sector isn't nearly as bad.  However, government contracts have slowly been migrating towards those that discourage quick and efficient delivery or completion of tasking (through micro-management and public employee's controlling the pace of projects).  So there is now extreme waste on both sides.  If I were to guess, I'm betting that we get about $1 of worth out of every $10 spent - not a new observation by any stretch, but it does make you wonder what all these projects to promote efficiency in government have actually accomplished.  If we want to address our Country's economic problems we need to eliminate the waste - in fact, that is all we need to do.  We don't need to cut programs at all if we can manage to re-invent how the government spends.  Its only going to get worse and we can't ignore it forever.  This is why China is killing us, all they are dealing with is corruption on a moderate scale - we are dealing with incompetence on a colossal scale.