I used to write reviews of Gov't contracts- Sad to say but this one says it all. Good for a laugh anyway.

Government Contract

Now you know, government workers , I can understand,
But these two guys workin ,didn’t seem to fit that clan,

They had the proper tools and didn’t stop to break,
Some supervisor, I am thinkin, is surely making a mistake,

Something big was missing in the orders that he’d given,
Then maybe they were Union and repetition driven,

Here, the one man dug a hole about two feet around,
The other quickly filled it up and tamped it down,

Maybe they were diggin down to locate hidden money,
Man I couldn’t figure, something sure was funny,

Just when it was lookin like they might be done,
They quickly moved on over and dug another one,

I couldn’t take it any longer, I just had to ask,
What is the nature of and purpose for this Task,

Why would you dig a two foot hole then you just fill it,
Could you maybe tell me , whatta you expect to git ,

He said, I know it’s lookin funny but you gotta understand,
When you do a government job, you gotta please the man,

That’s what we get paid for, we keep our quota up this way,
But the man that plants the trees in ,Called in sick today!