Those of us who have been here for eons and have been through Corporate "Downsizing", "Reorganizing", and "Rightsizing" know what gets cut and sometimes what pain it brings. It means sometimes looking at your organization with fresh eyes and utilizing tools such as Kaizen, Demming in all it's flavors, Six Sigma etc etc. to re-due your assembly line if you will. I don't care if it is an auto assembly line, a bank teller window, or a underling @ EPA, their always is a better way.
I bugs me that the depts in DC to my knowledge have never gone through these processes.
It is long overdue, and even the likes of the sometimes Liberal "Business Insider" even get that the 5 Trillion number doesn't even put a dent in it...
“I bugs me that the depts in DC to my knowledge have never gone through these processes.”
Not only have they never tried restructure to realize efficiencies through lean management practices they actually are moving the other way. I believe the ACA added over 100 new federal bureaucracies to support Obamacare. Recently I read federal employee pensions are administered manually. They have been trying since the early 1980’s to automate pension administration without success.
As long as management incentives in the bureaucracy encourage spending instead of cost reduction and efficiency, the government will continue to balloon.