Also.... yeah working for the government is a lot different then welfare. To suggest they're the same is just silly.
That's like complaining that your brother gets an allowance from your dad for doing nothing, while your doing all the chores in the house and get paid. Agree or disagree I really don't see anything hypocritical for being mad that one guy is getting money for doing nothing. (Even if it's less.)
I feel for how awkward that must make your conversations with your bother considering your past experience but i think your just venting out of frustration and making a connection that isn't really there.
I will say though... if there was anything that made me more "Pro small government" it was working for the government. The kind of waste that was there was tremendous. We'd sit around for hours getting paid $15 an hour... because they were ordered to keep people working even when they didn't have any of the paperwork essential for the job. At the end of the Census we'd be handed two forms. Get one form filled and it counts as a 4 hour day. Get 2 filled and it counts as an 8 hour day.
There isn't any incentive to save money so they actually go out of there way to spend it.
