Every organization, private or public, has enormous waste. It seems that at a US-level scale that leads to a crippled government. Canada and Scandinavian gove

Every organization, private or public, has enormous waste. It seems that at a US-level scale that leads to a crippled government. Canada and Scandinavian governments seem to more or less work & get things done, even in the face of waste. That said, the main issue is who does the work that is inherently not measurable by profit. Peter Drucker did a lot of writing about this - when you don't have profit to measure your performance, you have the mission. Non-profit hospitals are measured by patients cured, the DHS is measured by threads eliminated, etc. Government isn't a good doer, they are a policy setter. They need to spin out functions to non-profits and measure their performance based on mission-based factors.