First off 1/3 of your federal workforce are postal employees. 1/3 of them work for Department of Defense or our various intelligence and national security agencies. Another 1/3 do stuff like operate ports, etc.
So, you get rid of the USPS and you get what? You have any idea what percent of total federal outlays that entire agency with 1/3 of the federal workforce accounts for?
It's about 3%.
You'd need to get rid of 33X the number of federal workers.
Since USPS pay is less than half that found in other government agencies, per person, you'd probably need to get rid of 66X the number of federal workers.
You can get rid of Energy, Interior, Labor, Commerce, Education and several other marginally useful federal agencies and that still won't do it.
About NO RETIREMENTS, they've paid for their retirements. The federal government is not like your township trustee who draws a retirement based on nothing other than his service time. In the federal government the way it works is the employees have traditionally ended up funding their own retirements.
I'd need to live to be over 200 years of age before needing any assistance of any kind from the taxpayers (just for one example).
If you want to STEAL MY STUFF you will face heady resistance ~ I have a personal Castle Doctrine ~ so don't even try it.
First off, you completely misread my post. I said get rid of 25% of Washington, DC staff. That means the fat a$$es in Versailles on the Potomac who do nothing but suck us dry and would rollback some of the hiring of the last two years. Second, I’m not taking any workers retirement away. That part refers to the parasites in Congress.
Secondly, I read your post as advocating doing nothing. THAT IS NOT AN OPTION. A bankrupt government owes nobody, nothing - federal workers, the elderly and welfare recipients, included.
Finally, everyone is going to be hurt. Seniors are already without a COLA for two years, despite doubling of gas prices, hikes in food costs and paying taxes on money stolen from our paychecks. How about somebody else paying some? How about a minimum income tax of say $1000 for the 50% who pay ZERO income tax?