Steven Kel- man, in The Public Interest (winter 1985), 20th & Northampton Sts., Easton, Pa. 18042.
In January 1984, the President's Private Sector Survey on Cost Control
(a.k.a. the Grace Commission) made a big splash in the newspapers when it reported that, during the previous three years alone, Washing- ton bureaucrats had wasted $424 billion.
Americans love to hear this kind of "bad" news, says Kelman, who teaches at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. It confirms their conviction...