We believe in shrinking and updating our old, public sector of government.
Shrinking the public sector IS an "update", is it not? We don't need to pour more money to update something we don't need, unless they mean getting better computers for the few bureaucrats we might decide to keep in the federal government.
#16 is what will follow as a result of the shrinking of the federal government, so we don’t really need a national “policy” of expanding those institutions.
the phrase “public sector of government” confuses me.
It implies there might be legitimate ‘sectors’ of government which are not public.