Even the dumber parts of our government are not run by idiots. These are ordinary people like us, doing a job. By and large, they're trying to do it as well as they can. Or at least as often as people in the private sector try to do as well as they can.

The private sector is motivated by profit and efficiency and the US government often is not.

You balance the budget by restraining the growth of government and encouraging the growth of the private sector.

Leadership at the civic level is designed to be inclusive, but has difficulty being effective. In the private sector, leadership is based on meritocracy. Digital economy should be led by the private sector and the role of government should be to facilitate and support it. [On Strategies for Global Digital Economy]

Obama is from this group that resents the private sector, resents the capitalistic means of production.

When the private does well, there's revenue for the public sector.