It also ignores a lot of the friction in the process - lobbying dollars and campaign contributions in the process. Not to mention the heavily unionized public sector that opposes most forms of productivity improvements given that their dues depends on the number of jobs versus the productivity of government. I guess it's good to be idealistic, or maybe I'm just too cynical about government especially when most of the decisions to date by this administration seem to have resulted in it getting bigger with greater power.