[jgmmo]

Nobody holds public sector employees responsible.

Atleast in the marketplace, if you mess up - you go broke (or you should, don't even get me started on the idiocy of 'too big too fail'). There's some incentives to hustle, but also to not ruin your firm in the long-run.

At the FDA you know you are on an Imperial Star Destroyer, and that whatever happens - worse case scenario it takes like 5 years to fire you.

[jbooth]

Declaring that "government is the problem, just privatize it" without bothing to think through or research anything about the actual issue is the political equivalent of "just use node.js and mongodb, it's web scale".