Mike Hosking: Government wastage is totally out of control

A couple of good clues as to why we have such wastage of government spending and how the psychology behind it suggests it won't change under the current government.

We have had the revelations so far this week over the millions for consultants on Three Waters, it’s $20 million and counting.

The Zoom job fair that attracted next to no one yet cost a bit under a million to run with even the Minister acknowledging it didn’t take off the way they thought it would.

And now, a report into just how many jobs were supported by the wage subsidy scheme.

This, by the way, is a report from a ministry that along with every other ministry has more people working in it, given the Government has been on a hiring spree, with the broad belief, as outlined in the op-ed piece yesterday by Chris Hipkins, that more is always better.