Government "services?" Please - that's a border line troll-like statement. True Americans are highly self-reliant. They need very few government services while in their working years, which should cover the vast majority of their life - vs. retiring at an average early age of 50 or so as many government leech workers do. MANY fewer government workers will not hurt anyone that isn't willing to take care of themself.
As for government workers losing their jobs - short term pain, long term gain. Same thing that should have happened at the start of this recession-turned-depression, before Bush/Obama and the "elites" that now rule over us decided to steal money from the middle class via TARP/Stimulus/QE2/QE3/etc. to bail themselves and their failed business ventures out at our expense.
We cannot sustain the level of government workers we have. If we are ever to recover, the size of government absolutely needs to be reduced. A central government that consumes 25% of GDP is FAR too big. Laid off government workers will eventually need to find a job in the private sector. No there's not much out there now in the labor market. But, if it weren't for the crippling regulations that many of these government workers have helped put into place, the continuous threat of ever-rising taxes to feed an ever-growing government monster, and even more innovation-choking regulations, that wouldn't be the case.
With a real reduction in business-throttling regulations, and even the HINT that threats to future business opportunity might be abating (won't happen until Obama is gone, if then), much of the pent-up capital you mention would free up and jobs may begin to come back. Most important of all, if the iron shackles of government nanny-state bureaucracy and regulation were removed from small businesses, it would become possible for many that are currently unemployed or underemployed to become self-employed, to start their own businesses to provide needed goods & services, and to create jobs for their neighbors. This spirit of entrepreneurship and self-reliance is what made this country great in the first place - unleashing the creativity and hard work of the masses to better their own lives.
Small businesses are the biggest engine of job creation in America, and always have been. Big government (and its millions of workers) and its now-indistinguishable cronies in large international corporations have crushed this engine. Until the shackles on small business creation & growth are removed, we will not recover.
I heard someone on TV today say they thought the tea partiers in Congress intentionally wanted the economy to tank, thinking that it would hurt Obama’s chance at re-election. I hope that’s not true.
If you were plugged into the movement itself and understood its core driving principles, rather than the hate-filled propaganda spewed by the elite-run media, you would KNOW this is not true. At its root, the tea party is all about true fiscal conservatism. Limited government, lower taxes, individual rights, self-reliance and the ability to pursue ones own hopes & dreams unshackled by an overbearing government. I believe the true tea party patriots that haven't been in Congress long enough to become part of the corrupt power/money hungry elite are actually there to achieve these idealistic fiscal conservative goals. Reducing taxes and thus the size of government is what they believe in (at least initially) - not getting re-elected. That doesn't come until they've been there for a term or two and become corrupted. Term limits are yet another critical item needed if we're ever going to turn around the ever-growing government monster, AND fewer government workers to start.
No, its good. We don’t get enough crappy Trolls here. Thanks for toying with him. I miss Viking Kitty.