> This part is really damning: a real efficiency audit
There were already people auditing departments, but they got fired early on:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspector_general#United_State...
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_dismissals_of_inspectors_...
There's even an entire agency devoted to auditing:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Accountability_Offi...
Trying to find efficiency by bringing in the private sector is not a new thing:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Commission
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownlow_Committee
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoover_Commission
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Partnership_for_Reinv...
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> But bringing in the mob sector? Is that new?
No. But getting rid of cronyism/nepotism did happen at one point:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_service_reform_in_the_Un...
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoils_system
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Not entirely, though under rather different circumstances: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Underworld
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