TP2,
Capitalism is an unforgiving system to the inefficient.  In the private sector employees are fired and laid-off almost immediately, pay is cut, and benefits are cut or eliminated.  Benefits are cut even after one is retired.  The government sector; pay may be froze, benefits seldom cut (unless a new hire under a new system), and it is really, really, really difficult to fire a government employee.  So much that usually a lateral transfer is worked-out.

One doesn't have to be anti-government to demand fairness and efficiency.  My wife and I pay our taxes every year and our major complaint is the complexity, not the amount.  A close second complaint is the unfairness of the tax code.  The amount, not once in 30 years of marriage.  It seems the only method citizens have to be heard now and get action is to cut-off the money and that is what we are doing.

It is time to tighten the belt and figure out how to get it done with what is available.