[quote=briansd1]Not to say that there wasn’t waste, but at least government spending on salaries and pensions went to millions of ordinary people so their lives could be more enjoyable. [/quote]

Is this a sarcastic comment? All that spending on salaries and pensions has to come from somewhere.

And I’ll tell you where it comes from: people who produce.

For their lives to become more enjoyable someone else’s had to become inordinately less enjoyable.