I guess one big waste is the human capital encamped under our bridges and in our parks. Please think it through, I understand the anger and pain and zealotry to "cut the waste" which sounds much like "drain the swamp". Whatever. If we do not address our homeless families and we just let them rot under those bridges is that ridding us of the waste? Should we abandon any effort to provide better medical care, places to be clean, food, shelter, efforts to stop drug use, education for the children of these poor people? If you would wait until government runs as efficiently as you might like, we will be waiting forever because the complaints about government waste are ages-old. We pride ourselves on being a beautiful environment for visitors to see and play. If we do not maintain our environment, and the environment includes the people in it, we are loosing the desirability of the islands as a destination area. Then what do we have for an economy? Do you want to go back to sugar and pine?