http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/not-intended-to-be-a-factual-statement http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/not-intended-to-be-a-fa... I don't think the v

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/not-intended-to-be-a-factual-statement http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/not-intended-to-be-a-fa... I don't think the various departments that have been getting killed on budgets for the last 15 years "magically" became more efficient -- I think they did, objectively, do almost the same job with less resources in terms of headcount and pay freezes. No magic about it, that's based on actual numbers. You're alleging that something being private or public is a bigger deal than the normal organizational dynamics of bureaucracies. This is the attitude that leads to us writing blank checks for the F-35 no matter how many times they double the cost, while furloughing civil servants across all layers of government because there's not enough money to go around.