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Are you familiar with Machine Politics?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_machine#1930s_to_1970s
In the 1930s, James A. Farley was the chief dispenser of the Democratic Party's patronage system through the Post Office and the Works Progress Administration (WPA) which eventually nationalized many of the job benefits machines provided. The New Deal allowed machines to recruit for the WPA and Civilian Conservation Corps, making Farley's machine the most powerful. All patronage was screened through Farley, including presidential appointments. The New Deal machine fell apart after he left the administration over the third term issue in 1940. Those agencies were, for the most part, abolished in 1943, and the machines suddenly lost much of their patronage.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tammany_Hall
Tammany Hall exemplified Machine politics in New York
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byrd_machine
While the Byrd Organization dominated politics in Virginia
These government jobs aren't necessarily "providing public goods". Instead they might be networks of political patronage that reward insiders.
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/12/18/167265874/episode-424-how-much-is-a-firefighter-worth
If you would like a real life example of this, you could compare how much a Fire Department spends on fighting fires, vs how much a Fire Department sends on Pensions, or administrative costs.
