Tax and Spend

Bureaucrats are so against cutting spending, they won't even cut waste and fraud.

"Federal agencies bracing for sequestration have for years ignored or failed to implement thousands of suggestions from their own internal auditors on ways to cut waste, fraud or abuse, the Dayton Daily News has found.
The number of unimplemented recommendations from federal inspectors general has reached an all-time high, totaling 16,906 in 2012 with a total possible savings of $67 billion."

How would expect different? It's like asking the mafia to police itself. Actually, the mafia probably does a better job of policing itself because it incurs risk when stealing. The government doesn't. It's a waste of time to ask.