Mal, you definitely have something there.

My experience in government has been that government people are usually not business people, and develop a very different attitude about money than the private sector. No business would have allowed the above situation or the one at Walter Reed to happen.

I am very pleased to see watchdog groups like POGO exposing this stuff. Government needs greater accountability.

I am a big fan of zero based budgeting, myself, and I'd absolutely be open to ideas on how to integrate actual business practices into government. Government will always be "non-competitive" by nature (obviously, we can't have two competing militaries....), but a change in mentality would be welcomed, I suspect, especially by the grunts and the taxpayers.

I have long thought that most people wouldn't have so much of a problem paying their taxes if government were run better and more efficiently. People want to see their money being spent wisely.

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An employee gets trampled to death by a frenzied, greedy mob at a Walmart sale, and customers actually complained when the store closed. Yet, I'm the bad guy for suggesting policies that assume people act like retarded herd animals that need government nannying and control....