Good numbers Motley.  But good business practices does not indiscriminately cut cost(or jobs), instead finding where the process is failing and fix it, (including removing bad leadership or uneccesary job processes).      

That's what bugs me about governement service, and maybe it is part of the function of unions (I haven't worked in a union job since I was 18 working at the JC cannery).     

If the survival of the organization is 'assured' regardless of performance, it's just not going to meet the goal of public service.   

I've haven't worked in government service, but I suspect 'Continuous Improvement', which require a willingness to redesign process (and not stick with fixed job designs), runs into all kinds of barriers  in government institutions with Union's often stagnant view of employee 'rights'.    

Indescriminant cutting of budgets is stupid management. 
Sustaining failed work processes is stupid management as well.