I wonder if anyone has done any serious analysis of government spending.
For example, I’ve heard government spends money renting office space which is not being used. I’ve heard that there are government contracts which for unknown reasons, are not subjected to competitive bidding. There are even some employees who are in jobs which aren’t really needed. Does anyone ever make any efforts, to review spending? Federal spending seems to just always grow and grow, without regard to whether the money is being spent wisely, and also spent completely disconnected from the tax revenue being collected to fund the government programs in the first place.
To me, a basic first step would be to have a balanced budget. But I know that is very unlikely to ever happen.
I’ve seen first hand (just retired after 28 years air force). Yes the gov’t wastes money all the time. Some places the money is tight and they do the best they can with little money. But places where there money flows...oh man the waste that comes out of that.
So the key is defunding the agencies and they learn to do more with less. The problem is not the under-funded agencies...it’s the over funded ones.