Doing what? You don't want government workers working at doing what they are assigned to do. Because of the incompetence of the political management most of what people do is manage process rather than outcome. If you don't know what you want done, any process will do it, and the inside the beltway types argue endlessly over how to adjust the process to ensure that the process can't be criticized by the voters.
Noting useful gets done.
This is why Trump is different. It's like the Wollman Ice Skating Rink story. Do you want a working ice-skating rink or do you want a process to ensure that each step of the process is executed according to the process regardless of what it is you want? Inside the Beltway we want not justice but procedural justice.
The taxpayer cannot afford it.
I agree with you totally. I should have written that differently but I grew up on the farm and that was what I had in mind when I wrote “actually work”. If the job was get the corn out of the field and into the crib you got it done, you didn’t waste time on a thousand distractions and you didn’t do things that were counter productive and try to convince Pop that your way was better. I am well aware that we are better off when the average government hire stays home than when he is “on the job”. I really hope that Trump can find a way to cut very deeply into the ranks of government “workers”.