Your caricature of government may be pleasing, but it bears very little resemblance to reality.  Government is <i>inefficient</i>, and often wasteful, but not because they don&#x27;t care about wasting taxpayers&#x27; money.  They&#x27;re just (often) bad at spending it responsibly.<p>And public sector employees are often the <i>first</i> target of any politician elected on a promise of &quot;getting rid of waste&quot;.