“You mean the state (ie all of them) that hires far too many bureaucrats, pays them entirely too much and keeps them on salary and benefits until a ripe old age?”
I recall back home, people who could not find gainful employment often took a civil service exam and got a make-work government job typing or filing. Automatic promotions ensue, and soon you have incapable people promoted to managers or supervisors. You can’t fire them because of the obscene public sector union, so we end up in a true kakistocracy.
My grandfather ran a county government department for 35 years. He ended up tearing out what was left of his hair. He had to staff it with a bunch of people who likely couldn’t hold a job anyplace else in America.
“Here, this is Ward Chairman So-And-So’s drunken brother-in-law. He works for you now.”