If you don't think this is happening in every government agency, your head needs to be removed from your a$$.
I also find it interesting that when the usual suspects complain about military spending, they never point to the taxpayer funded jobs that push papers. There's probably a whole lot more in unnecessary redundancy and outdated technology that requires a body when none is actually needed.
Pentagon buries evidence of $125 billion in bureaucratic waste
The Pentagon has almost as many people working desk jobs in it's business operations as it does active-duty troops.
Really? That many are really necessary? I doubt it.
The Pentagon has buried an internal study that exposed $125 billion in administrative waste in its business operations amid fears Congress would use the findings as an excuse to slash the defense budget, according to interviews and confidential memos obtained by The Washington Post.
Pentagon leaders had requested the study to help make their enormous back-office bureaucracy more efficient and reinvest any savings in combat power. But after the project documented far more wasteful spending than expected, senior defense officials moved swiftly to kill it by discrediting and suppressing the results.
The report, issued in January 2015, identified “a clear path” for the Defense Department to save $125 billion over five years. The plan would not have required layoffs of civil servants or reductions in military personnel. Instead, it would have streamlined the bureaucracy through attrition and early retirements, curtailed high-priced contractors and made better use of information technology.
The study was produced last year by the Defense Business Board, a federal advisory panel of corporate executives, and consultants from McKinsey and Company. Based on reams of personnel and cost data, their report revealed for the first time that the Pentagon was spending almost a quarter of its $580 billion budget on overhead and core business operations such as accounting, human resources, logistics and property management.
I did not fact check this and am skeptical because I cannot imagine any bureaucracy ever cleaning house. However even if it is false it would be the truth if it ever happens.
"Long ago, Dan Golden fired over a thousand senior civil servants at NASA headquarters. When I visited him a few weeks before he fired them, the 8th Floor was humming, lines at the copy machines, loud sounds of typing and printing. A couple of weeks after he dismissed them I visited Dan again. The place was quiet. People working at their desks. I asked a senior career engineer “What did all those people do? You seem to be handling it all.” He looked up and said, “You know, we can’t figure out what they did.”
