government-job complacency; public-sector entitlement mentality
A critical idiom describing the attitude of government employees who feel their jobs are secure and that fiscal discipline does not apply because the state is their employer. Often used in discussions of bureaucratic inefficiency or wasteful spending.
That government office's attitude is exactly the 'public-sector entitlement mentality.'
Unless we reform the 'government-job complacency' mindset, wasteful spending won't stop.