[LeafItAlone]

None of what you laid out actually explains why it is waste. Doing things costs money. The $65 billion spent on consultants could be providing $650 billion in value. I’m unable to read the full article linked but from the first two paragraphs it was not setting itself up for explaining why it’s waste either.

[arolihas]

These people hear a big number going to a person they are told to hate and automatically think it's fraud and waste. Simply put, anything I don't agree with is bad and needs to be cut. That's the whole philosophy.