A useful addition to the debate, however, as we live in a democracy, it is futile to expect our representatives to do anything that would endanger their re-election prospects. Annoying the monotheistic mega corporations and fundies would do that, so the government can act with impunity on this, and all similar issues.
Politics is about doing whatever you can get away with to protect the powerful and their economic interests, it has nothing to do with what is best for the majority of citizens or the country as a whole, or the future well-being of everyone. The sort of people who enter politics soon learn this and if they're decent they quit. If they stay they are corrupted.

If the author is truely concerned about wasteage and corruption then perhaps her attention should be given to the Union officials who have ripped off the cleaners, laundry workers etc. The Chaplains are simply left cleaning up the mess created largely by secular dogma. Its a small price to pay.