If there is public virtue, there are no parasites. People have enough moral values to not abuse the system. People have to have a certain level of honesty and dignity with constrained government. No public virtue means no good judges, no good public officials to put common sense practices into place.
I am sorry, but public virtue is a meaningless phrase. If it is anything it is only something that exists in an imaginary world.
It can and will never exist in the real world. Please understand that Government is force, nothing more, nothing less.
If government was the size that our Founders intended, we would hardly know it exists. Then, it would not matter if there were busy bodies or control freaks running it. They would not be able to do much damage.
As it is, the virtuous are in the process of controlling every d*mn aspect of our lives; from our toilets, to our light bulbs, to what we eat.
Please tell me virtuous public servants would go about drastically reducing the size of government??? It will NEVER happen.
Governments are, without a doubt, the most destruction institutions ever created by man.
The bigger a government becomes the more it becomes inhabited by utterly evil and sadistic people.