Hey... that sounds similar to what happened under the Howard Government in Australia. The then new PM John Howard thought that the bureaucracy was lazy and bloa

Hey... that sounds similar to what happened under the Howard Government in Australia. The then new PM John Howard thought that the bureaucracy was lazy and bloated (and in some ways, it was). So he sacked a good proportion of workers, and set about his legislative and national agenda, only to realise (much like Trump is now!) that you actually need people to make this work. So not able to increase the numbers he employed, it was decided to bring in contractors to do the same work. Many of them were former workers at the same departments. However, there were less of them, but they still cost a lot more. Then the government started to realise they needed some way of overseeing their work, but they didn't have enough staff to do so, so they employed people to check on the contractors' work. As the workload was still high, they kept employing more contractors, and you guessed it - more supervisors. By the time Howard left office, he was employing three times the number of people than the previous Labor government.