Not every government job is a bad job. And just because it’s a job in the defense industry doesn’t make it a good one. But generally speaking, I think there is a huge difference between jobs that support the defense of our country (one of the fundamental reasons for having a federal government) and jobs that provide bureaucratic staffing for functions that should not be part of the federal government. Those would include anything in the education department, HHS, and many more.
Seeing how things have turned out, I’d be inclined to eliminate TSA, DHS (sounded like a good idea at the time), most of the agencies that are currently in the news for buying ammunition (or at least the armed branches of them), and any federal agency that is involved in personal and private matters, such as child “protection” services, dietary dictators, etc.
And while I’m at it, I’ve long been in favor of eliminating the IRS. Top of my list, in fact.
Well duh, Republicans like Defense spending more and Dems like social spending more. They both will defend their turf which is why we are here with these cuts coming.
That doesn't change Republicans flipping 180 on Keynesian's economic claims, Its Bad in 2010, good in 2012. Gives you an idea a Romney POTUS.
When we are spending 1+ trillion over budget on unconstitutional domestic crap cutting the military is just insane.