Excellent post, TC.
Thank you. It’s a question of philosophy. I don’t think we should have a lot of the government activity we do - starting with government schools - but I also don’t think people are obligated to organize their lives around how they fit into whatever government is doing at any particular time.
It’s funny how government employees always seem to get a moral pass. Yes, many of them are working - while many are not, and there’s no way to fire them - but most are working at something that either should not be done at all, or should not be done by government.
Does Poster Melas think that, since we should not have a Department of Education (or Energy, or HUD, or HHS, or Equal Employment Opportunity, etc., etc.) that every employee is morally obliged to quit his job and forswear his pension or other benefits? If not, why not?