I think you might be misunderstanding my comment. I was arguing that the government has variously employed experts, and when they've been fired under the pretense of "smaller, more efficient government" then we end up hiring contractors and consultants who can take advantage of a stupider government and charge astronomical rates for broken systems. I'm NOT making a claim about the expertise of these consultancies. Stupidly hacking away at government results in costlier, lower-quality governance (which suits the billionaire class that is less dependent on governance and directly benefits from a lack of oversight, at least in the short term).

I have seen so many millions of dollars thrown away by the government on projects where nothing was delivered. All the consultancies made out like bandits. Over time it's better for government to be very small and not get involved in too many things. They cannot execute and everything gets bastardized over time.

I have seen the same in private corporations. Consultancies made made out like bandits, the company was left more dysfunctional then before.

Goverment is bad is act of faith on the conservatives. They intentionally sabotage it and then claim it can not deliver. You just literally described how small goverment claim was used as a vehicle for corruption.