All these analysis just wind up concluding in a different politically correct phrasing of "y'all mfers piss a hell of a lot of money away on stuff that would be

All these analysis just wind up concluding in a different politically correct phrasing of "y'all mfers piss a hell of a lot of money away on stuff that would be overt graft if it weren't an official part of the process and there wasn't some service exchanged with a plausibly deniable reason" The whole system from top to bottom is a money sieve and it's so diffuse nobody is responsible so nobody has any incentive to clean it up and everybody has some token reason why their bit of pork is necessary so an outsider without tons of inside experience that tends to also result in deep investment in the status quo can't hope to accurately clean it up without breaking everything.