If a person make errors some times, and then never bothers to fix any error (because of incentives), but keeps making other actions, some of them being errors that will never be fixed...

Or if a person makes errors in two directions, but then only bothers fixing the ones in a single direction. I'd say that person is malicious.

The government isn't a person. If you were hired to "fix" the problem described how well do you think you would do?