Thats right drifter! Fire all the workers then we will have plenty of money to buy scanners! There would be no one to scan whatever it was you wanted scanned, but they could hire someone as a scanner operator to meet your needs.
I get tired of the the argument that WDFW has all these people that do nothing but collect a paycheck and tell you they don't have an answer to your questions. They are people who work hard and care about our resources. They get frustrated because they don't always have the resources to do their job they way they think it should be done.
I know everyone in the private sector works harder than everyone in the public sector (just ask them they will tell you it is true) and they pay more taxes and get less benefit from their tax dollars, etc...

If you have specific examples of waste lets here them. If your argument is simply there are too many employees and they don't do anything then I think your argument lacks substance.

Sorry about the rant.