Originally Posted by Skerlnik

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.