By and large government activities have no ability to be efficient. They don’t have prices for the costs of each job.
The private sector is always trying to get a handle on all costs. A good restaurant owner will tell you what a paper napkin costs him, what his gas bill is in cold weather each month. You think that type of cost control exists in the public sector? It doesn’t. So, even energetic managers don’t have price/cost data to make economic decisions, and thus free up money for what is thought more valuables.
And you know that the entire culture is price/cost investigating adverse. People don’t want to know. The whole subject is fraught with the chance that your position is the most costly, or least productive, or thought of as the easiest to target. Everyone will hang on hoping they’re the last. Human nature.
The office ladies are near the decision making administrators. If the ladies go, then there won’t be a need for so many office admin, so the decision makers will keep them as a reserve of last ditch sacrifices to the lay off God.
Yep. You got it right. The office workers are The Final Solution.
You know, the entire concept of the government we have is a rat proposition. It isn’t a libertarian or even pub model of government. We are and always will be playing on the rat’s turf even when we’re the majority. Government wholly is, by its nature and function, now a rat construct.