@ShadowJonathan @punishmenthurts @Tupp_ed the reason why the state is “wasteful” is because contractual stuff goes to the lowest bidder, not the most cost-effective. Therefore everything is done on the cheap at first, then the cheapness shows up and has to be fixed.

What could have been 500 billion done well, is now 300 billion done poorly and an additional 600 billion of papering things over that still doesn’t do the job.