Be careful how much you spend and on what you spend it. Second, government managers tend to maintain their departments at peak-demand level. Government is like a public utility. A utility will keep a capital plant large enough to sustain maximum demand. So, if electrical usage peaks for two months in the summer, the electric company will have some generators idle 10 months of the year.
Government departments show the same phenomenon.
Sometimes there is nothing to do about it and sometimes there everything to be done. Watch out for managers who call for money to sustain extreme emergency levels. They may be grossly overspending. Third, private industry is more efficient than government only if the constant pressure of competition keeps them efficient. It's a lot easier to manage your own people than to manage a contractor, and agencies can be shut down and people laid off a lot easier than contracts can be terminated.