Let me give you one anecdote from the Baltimore area. The schools claimed they were going bankrupt. They claimed they needed $43M in additional funds to stay open. They had cut everything to the bone....
Well, the Super Attendant of the Baltimore City schools has (maybe it has been eliminated by now) a driver that was paid $110k a year.... Think about that. $110 THOUSAND dollars for a personal driver. Yet, no one running the school system thought that there was anything wrong with this...
That is government bureaucracy. NEVER listen to the pig as it wails for more food and threatens to cut things that are important to you - while they secretly hold on to the things that they cherish...