<the inefficiencies, unproductivity,... of the government sector> I suspect that inefficiencies and productivity exist and vary in every large organization. Clearly, in a small business there is no place to hide waste. Government has the, unavoidable, factor of everyone looking over their shoulder. I think the real question on the NEA, NEH, IMS type agencies is, should it be the task of the Government to collect money from people in, say, Hastings, Neb and send it to a dance company in New York city-a company most folks in Hastings will never see? If you look at where grants go-They are pretty much bi-coastal not much money from Chicago to Calif.