I've noticed that a lot of people want to attribute the public works shortcomings to a lack of funding. As someone who currently works for a local government o

I've noticed that a lot of people want to attribute the public works shortcomings to a lack of funding. As someone who currently works for a local government organization that manages public transportation for the region I'm not sure that's the case. I think the author correctly recognizes it as America's problem with "cost disease'". The organization I work for receives billions of dollars yearly and most of it is pissed away. Our websites, for example, often get built by consultants. Sometimes to the tune of millions of dollars. These websites are usually your typical CRUD apps too so you might think they'd be done well for millions of dollars. Nope, they usually have garbage for a code base. The code is so garbage that we usually have to keep paying them to maintain the websites because we don't understand how their mess works. The worst part is that these websites are often rebuilt a few years later. They're built again, by another consultant, with the hopes that they'll better suit our future needs. This is just the massive waste of money that I've noticed from within my department. I can only imagine how bad it is within others. We all know that large corporations are far less efficient than smaller companies. So why do we keep letting public organizations turn into bloated behemoths?