Bureaucrat: How many drops of solder are you using?
Answer: 40
Bureaucrat: Better try 50 and no need to work so quickly.
Government is a destroyer of wealth.
I once taught for the overseas schools of the Department of Defense. At the end of each fiscal year, administrators were told to get out their wish list and to spent any remaining funds in their budget. Much useful but also much useless stuff was then ordered. The rationale was that if the money were not all used up then the heads of the agency could not ask Congress for an increase in spending for the following year. This is the way that bureaucrats think.