The reason we need a huge bureaucracy that resists change is not due to the country getting bigger or the world getting more complex, it is simply because we have allowed the Feds to take on far more than their Constitutional list of duties.
Reduce those back to something remotely related to the Connie and the bureaucracy would dry up.
The fix isn't to "vote the bastards out", it's to cut the excess growth back, that will remove the opportunities for corruption to a great degree.
Talk about hitting the nail on the head.
Power corrupts. Of course big money goes after lobbying! They make the rules of what you can and can't do! Any business and poltical group would be insane not to try influencing the people who carry absolute power over their being. When the taxes are that high and power is that concentrate, of course everyone tries to plead the case that they are special and need tax breaks and subsidies to survive. Farmers needs tax breaks and subsidies, Manufacturing needs tax breaks and subsidies, Financial markets needs subsidies, Service industry needs tax breaks and subsidies. Everyone is special and needs a break so they all need to lobby to get it done.
Keep your eye on the ball and remember the big five:
1, Social Security
2, Medicare, Medicaid
3, DoD
4, Interest on debt
5,
Everything else
To repeat what carebear said, if the power wasn't there, nobody else would be either.