Correct you are. I worked 23 years in private industry and 12 in a government funded outfit. The waste of tax payer funds in government outfits is beyond belief. Coming from a survive by making profit environment of private industry and then working in a place where only thing that matters is how to spend the funds available, it really made an impression on me. But I should’nt complain, I was able to retire early!
Here in NJ government workers (at all levels) have succeeded in chasing out the private sector and those taxpayers able to follow their jobs to less-costly states; on the federal level they just chase jobs to other countries. Eventually it just collapses; no money for new government employees to provide services due to the costs of the retired former employees.