Efficiency is expensive in the short term. It usually requires investments, hiring new people, and spending some time changing the ways things are done. You wil

Efficiency is expensive in the short term. It usually requires investments, hiring new people, and spending some time changing the ways things are done. You will only see the benefits in the long term. Politicians often don't get this, and they may even deliberately choose not to get it. In the public sector, "efficiency" is usually a codeword for slashing budgets and assuming that agencies will magically get their work done with fewer resources.