Hey! Government workers and retirees (Federal ones, anyway) aren’t a significant budgetary problem.
Take the Department of Energy. We got along just as bad with out it for four hundred years, then Jimmah Carter made it. Billions every year and our energy security is worse.
The Department of Edjamakation. Billions, tens of thousands, and they don’t edjmakate one single student.
Department of Transportation...Why? Privatize the airports, ports, highways.
I can not think of a Federal Agency that I would force tax money from a fellow citizen for, save some of the military, and a few Federal courts.
If there were no Federal employees, we wouldn’t have a SS debt, Medicaid, medicare, Section 8. Which is fine by me.
To paraphrase the grate governmentalists, Joe Stalin, no government workers, no government problems.