The ignorance is staggering.

Go ahead - get rid of 3/4 of the people who do all those services. 3/4 of the cops, firefighters and teachers (think classes are over crowded now?). Knock of 3/4 of the military, the food inspectors, the people who fix your roads (no, you NEVER demanded services from the government) and make sure your water is clean.

There's no argument against the fact that there are places that CAN be cut (we just had a bit of a bloodbath here at the Air Force and are getting word this'll happen again next year). But you're in a fantasyland if you think that you could just lop off 3/4.

Full time civilian employees:
2010 State government employee count: 3,809,697
2010 Local government employee count: 10,965,982
2009 Federal government employee count: 2,823,777 (latest figures available)

That's nearly 18 million employees. You think you can just make another 13+ million unemployed?

Going to have 1/4 the staff in areas like police, fire, prisons, air traffic, water terminals, hospitals, sewers, solid waste management, parks, electric and gas utilities, schools (K-12), libraries, judiciary, transit, financial administration, the military, financial administration, and a whole host of other things I haven't thought of?