It drives me up a wall listening to Obama constantly pimping for more teachers and police officers because "the private sector is doing fine".
If they want more police and firefighters and need to balance budgets the logical path would be to dump useless bureaucrats and SEIU members without firing the people we actually need.
The public sector has become an industry that takes more taxes, fees, tolls and fines out of our back pockets. Today it taxes us for not doing what it wants. Tomorrow it will tax us for the air we breathe. It is a parasite that exists like a cancer on our future.