You're showing your ignorance.
The deficit costs you're talking about came from our elected officials. Those are programs they rammed through and saddled taxpayers with. The "Feds" being mentioned in this article are not elected. They are working stiffs just like you and me. They don't make the rules, but they have to work with them. They have large workloads and limited budgets, which obviously do not mix well. They often have to be very creative and innovative to reconcile the two. (When I was active duty military I had my budget cut 75% in one year. How would you deal with that?) There are always some idiots that do bad things and squander taxpayer money like the recent GSA conference scandal, but in general the Feds are regular hard-working folks who get a bad rap because of a few bad actors.
As for the hammers and toilet seats, that's a long topic that I'm not going to get into. In a nutshell, blame it on the massive tangle of government contracting rules. The government asked for a small quantity of very specific non-commercial items. The contractor can only spread the design and manufacturing costs across a few dozen items rather than hundreds of thousands of items like Craftsman. In addition, the government often publishes how much they expect to pay for items like this, which effectively sets the price.
I know where you're coming from; we have a lot of problems. Your problem is you're blaming the wrong people. Remember that when you go vote next month.
