Some folks have a faint hope they hold onto dearly that if they can just make government employment undesirable (by, for example, not paying the help), then the government will just go away.
I'd stop delivery on her welfare, retirement and merchandise rebate checks if that were possible.
Well, quite frankly, there's some parts of government that ought to go away. But, there are some things that even I, reluctantly, think that government does a good job of taking care of. I don't think that a private enterprise would have built the interstate highway system, for example. Yes, private roads would have been built, but not as a system unless the government stepped in and utilized eminent domain to acquire properties for the private industry (though investor-owned utilities did enjoy a weak version of emenent domain for the purpose of serving the public and did fairly well).
I left private industry after 21 years to work for the government a couple of years ago. I'll stay for at least 3 more years (until my pension is vested) and probably longer. The part of government I'm in is run almost like a private company. It pays "en-leu-of" taxes to localities, it is self-supporting, and it is operated like its competitors with a board of directors, president, and the like. We get merit pay as opposed to civil service raises, we put money into social security, and we pay the same money for our product that everyone else does. Plus, occasionally, a congresscritter pops in and says "hello".