> So many boondoggles could be killed off before they spend money. This is, in fact, precisely the issue with government contracting. But not in the way you t

> So many boondoggles could be killed off before they spend money. This is, in fact, precisely the issue with government contracting. But not in the way you think. For all practical purposes, every single government contract can be cancelled without warning and there's not a damn thing you can do about it. Consequently, every single government contract is executed with that in mind. This leads to all the pathological behaviors that everybody bitches about.