Agree on something?  Superficially perhaps.  Before getting into specific fixes do we agree on the causes?  But as a start things seemed to be working well in the 1950's.  See? Even a libtard can pine for the "good old days" when Labor exerted some control over Capitalists.
"embarrassing for the present administration?" - Nope.  I've sipped a good few beers while listening to expats who spent their lives snout deep in the public trough screech hatred of the taxes that lets them live in paradise.  They embarrass me.
"$10 worth of Bureaucracy" - I guess I pay for that much drug corp. bureaucracy out of my $24 monthly prescription.  Fair share? Yes? No?
If college intramural sports wasn't monetized and professionalized I'd say coaches would deserve a salary/retirement on a par with tenured professors. Belotti shouldn't be paid with public funds.  But, law and order is the conservative mantra and PERS is the law.  Which has been revised a bit, right?  Helfrich won't score as big, right?