It’s the kind of thing that winds up in late-night comedy monologues:
The city of Los Angeles paid Wells Fargo Bank more than a half-million dollars to print checks … that the city was already printing itself.
Of course the city controller is trying to get the money back, but the incident is another “I told you so” for skeptical taxpayers who are already convinced of the befuddled inefficiencies of bureaucracy.
Those jokes are infuriating to government people who are already getting things done efficiently, or who are trying to change procedures to make them efficient.