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Firing people protected by government contracts and strong unions is surprisingly hard.

C-level people in those organizations are not protected by strong unions or government contracts. (Although they may come with golden parachutes.) They are also the people who can institute meaningful change.

> heartless cutting of services

Quite the dichotomy you've established. Cutting of services is automatically 'heartless'? As they are always useful, necessary, and better than alternatives... while cleaning house to replace them with another set of politicians with the same prerogative is the 'good' solution?

Context matters. Neither are automatically better solutions, nor is chopping services necessarily 'heartless'.

Kansas has a tiny government already, I'm not sure there's much left to clean out except the elected positions.