How would slashing the administrative waste budget be anything like slashing the defense budget? One of the big problems of government that no one, not even conservatives, often talks about is the internal lobby. Lobbyists aren't exclusively corporate or NGO. Huge numbers of them are government employees fighting to keep the jobs of the people in a given department. The results are the same as a lot of corporate lobbying: the dedication of tax dollars to a really inefficient jobs program. $125B isn't chump change even by the federal government's standards. And the GOP, our protectors against government waste, refused to consider defense cuts as a compromise in the fiscal cliff debacle. Just when I think I can't think less of Republicans in Congress something always comes up.