The Federal Government is bloated with unnecessary departments and positions doing jobs the Federal Government was never intended to do.
Many of those positions have actually contributed to the economic malaise which has stopped people who want to work from having jobs.
Granted, there are the slackers and those who are taking advantage of a system they have made it their profession to exploit. They should be removed, not added to by the same Government which is claiming it cannot take care of those for whom it has already claimed responsibility.
Instead of battering the elderly and the poor, instead of cutting "essential" services, have a day when "nonessential government employees" stay home (like a snow day), and decimate their ranks (reduce by 10%).
If they aren't essential, then why are we paying them?
Lather, rinse, repeat.
Those of us in the private sector have had to adjust our spending and behaviour while those in our employ remove even more (forcibly) from the productive, not just to redistribute to the 'poor', but to line the pockets and feather the nests of our alleged servants at our expense.
The 800 lb gorilla in the room are the non essential personnel used to run a bloated government. I agree.
But it is not constitutional to feed the poor, house, medicate and school the illegal.
Fine. We have social security ingrained. Social security is unconstitutional as well, but I can live with it. For citizens only.
Cut the spending on illegals. Period. Cut spending on benevolent programs in other countries.
Cold hearted? Perhaps. But this is in part, MY MONEY. And I do not choose to give it to third world countries no matter what age the starving are , I do not choose to give it to illegals, or to people who have children they can not afford.
All this benevolent spending belongs to the Church and other benevolent, non governmental agencies. So, the poor feel demeaned by that? They don’t want to have to hear a sermon before their free meal?
I DON’T CARE. Get out of my pocket. I work for a living....battering the poor? I’m battering the government who takes MY MONEY and gives it to deadbeats. I can no longer give to the needy as I see fit, because the government is handing out for votes.