No, we do need a government. We just need it to be the one put forth by our founding fathers that is aligned under a constitution, with the same moral and ethical foundation they had. We (the USA) have drifted so far off our compass...
And, as the stepmom for 2 young men who “work for the government” (one loads bombs on F16s, the other designs the jets), these are two functions that the government would want to have its employees doing and not have Joe Citizen designing jets in his garage or loading his homemade bombs on his bi-plane. We are a proud military family: granddads, dads/mom, and now our sons all work for the military. We didn’t do it for the paycheck, but because we love our country. But love doesn’t pay our bills. Thank goodness the retiree paychecks are not caught up in this or we wouldn’t be able to help our sons with their pending financial fallout.
Yes, the government needs to drastically reduce the budget and its spending. And a lot of people are going to bear the pain for our Congress and President (now and past) not doing their jobs.