Going pretty OT here, but I would argue that a much bigger problem than corruptness in government agencies is good old fashioned incompetence. It is damn near

Going pretty OT here, but I would argue that a much bigger problem than corruptness in government agencies is good old fashioned incompetence. It is damn near impossible to fire someone for poor performance in the federal government. My father was a federal bureaucrat for over 25 years. He related stories of some employees he had to deal with who had major personality disorders, were incompetent, abusive etc., and yet it took years to get them dismissed, even though everyone from top to bottom knew they were nothing but a liability to the agency.