[Logophile]

Few of these laborers in the vineyards of government do anything useful. (In my experience — I used to have to deal with them — few do anything much at all.) Some of what they do is actually harmful to the nation. On the whole, though, we have settled in with this system. We are used to it. It’s not going away, absent a revolution; and conservatives are — duh! — not, by temperament, revolutionaries.

At the very least, we should stop adding to the numbers of government "workers." Can't that be done without a reveolution?

[Graybeard58]

At the very least, we should stop adding to the numbers of government "workers." Can't that be done without a reveolution?

Every time some conservative calls for slowing down the growth of existing entitlements, not stop them mind you, just slow them down, the Earned Income Tax Credit comes to mind, there's a hue and cry from liberals and c.s. Republicans, that it would hurt the poor. There are factors built in to entitlements that make them constantly increase, the same is true of government workers.

After all, as these programs grow like cancer does, it takes more and more government employees to handle them.