It sounds like you are completely ignorant of economics and finance, as well as business, capitalism, and human nature. Retraining and retooling cost enormous amounts of money, especially when done by an inefficient bureaucratic government as opposed to private enterprise. Our debate is over how we can cut spending, not how we can find ways to spend more! Nothing you have presented is going to cut costs, it is going to cost MORE! Not only will it cost taxpayers more, at the same time, it will destroy jobs and put people out of business. You just yammer on and on with these cockamamie ideas that could never be implemented, and if they could, would make the situation worse! I wonder if you look as goofy as you sound?
People who joined the military, didn't join so they could be police officers! If they had wanted to be police officers, they would have done that instead of joining the military! They don't want the job of taking seniors to medical appointments, that's not why they joined the military! But to you, I guess it really doesn't matter what people want, they need to just do as you say and not complain. The military doesn't "hire" people, they ENLIST people, then train them to be soldiers, not social workers.
The point is for the average citizen to get something back for their taxes.
The government doesn't earn profits, they don't produce anything. For every dollar you pay in taxes, you get about .20 in actual benefit, because you have to pay all the bureaucrats all the way down the line, and no matter what service it is, the money would have gone much further in the hands of private business in the free market system. The "average" citizen doesn't pay taxes, that's one of the biggest problems here. Nearly half of America pays no tax at all. The problem is, we are currently spending about $3 billion a day more than we're taking in, and you are proposing some mighty ambitious and expensive undertakings. We simply don't have the money to do what you are suggesting, even if we were all retards like you!
