inefficiency

But realism also requires recognizing that there is significant government waste — not due to inefficiency or waste in the Republican sense, but because political power too often serves private ends.

Richards - the MP for Rother Valley - said the system for managing and tracking people who enter the country illegally was "fraught with inefficiencies".

He added: "The review will aim to drive out waste and inefficiency across Whitehall, reducing duplication and bureaucracy - saving the taxpayer money and cutting the cost of 'doing government'."

When the end goal is "efficiency," it's easy to get to this view that retired people are an "inefficiency" and "redundancy" that should no longer be funded.

“If we could somehow eliminate some of the inefficiencies and waste, that might be a good thing.”