The people who want a very small government, do they worry where government workers will be employed if we shrink our government?

No, they don’t. The ‘small government’ people, who tend to be Tea Party folks, are drunk on ideology and convinced of the ‘rightness’ of their philosophy.

People are not a concern, purity and philosophy are.

In that way, the resemble the Taliban, or Al Qaeda, or even Opus Dei and some portions of the Catholic Church. Ideology is much more important than humanity.

I’m conservative and I think that a smaller Federal and State governments are better than large bloated governments. And yes I care about how that effects government workers. There are humane ways to cut back like not growing the government workforce and not replacing workers as they retire and or move into private jobs.

I was Federal employee for 18 years and I’m seem a lot of waste and abuse. One new employee asked me one time, “How many people work in this building?” and I replied, “Oh about half”.

If you have an over abundance of employees, why does the wait at the DMV typically take hours?

^^DMV in most parts of FL doesn’t take hours. We can make appointments, and it’s even less wait with an appointment. In TN it did take a ridiculous amount of time. When I lived in NC it did also. It varies a lot by state.

What people who want “small government” really mean is that they want to privatise the functions of government.

And the result in many cases is that the services normally accessible to everyone by right of citizenship would be mediated through the market, and rationed to those who can afford to pay the prices. You already have that with healthcare and higher education.

In effect, it is a scam. A transfer of wealth to those running the privatised services who get to extract rent from others who access their services, or lucrative contracts from the government for things that used to be funded and run publicly for a fraction of the cost.

It’s a lucrative scam, so there’s always an ideological push to “sell” the idea to others: “Government runs things badly. It would be better if the private sector ran them.”

When they privatized Highway maintenance here in BC in the early 80’s,the highways have been going steadily down hill ever since,and winter maintenance is a complete joke,and you would think road sand and salt was pure gold the way these idiots use it.
To put for profit companies in charge of things like highway maintenance is stupid, and puts the public at risk.
I don’t care if you privatize highway construction fly at it, but leave highway maintenance in the hands of Government you want to waste my tax dollars by putting and extra load of traction sand down you go for it.