Wright, who taught at Michigan State University before entering government service, also complained about the general nature of bureaucracies to perpetuate themselves. “I’m offended as an American taxpayer that the federal bureaucracy—at least the part I’ve labored in—is so profoundly dysfunctional,” Wright wrote. “I’m hardly the first person to have made that discovery, but I’m saddened by the fact that there is so little discussion, much less outrage, regarding the problem.”