Government itself is the enemy of the people. Entrenched bureaucracy is primarily interested in its own authority. It does not ever serve the needs of the citizenry. Permanent government is anathema to our constitution.
Louis, government is just a huge “jobs program” for semi-useless people. Whatever any agency is supposed to do “for the people,” it is secondary to what it “does for those employed by it!” Not long ago we received a notice from our Sanitary District explaining their upcoming rate increase. The number one reason for the increase was to “shore up employee pensions!”
Here in California “public safety employees” are able to take a full retirement at age 50. And that includes support employees, like someone who answers the phone. In Los Angeles the “lifeguards” at the beach are “firefighters” so at age 50, after spending there working life ogling scantily clad women for a living, they too can retire. And the worst thing about it is they will most likely be a taxpayer expense (that's they and their spouses) for another thirty years or more, thanks to the generous healthcare benefits that go along with their equally generous, fully indexed pensions. You just have to wonder how much longer the taxpayer is going to stand for this kind of largesse?