A public reading of the Declaration of Independence July 4, 1776

OK.
For all of you who curse those who serve the US Government.
I spent a good part of my life working for the National Park Service.
Each of the government agencies and departments is there to carry out a job that we had our Congress and President sign into law.
Many of these go back before we were born. That doesn't matter. It's our country. Most of us accept it is the best and leading example of a free republic that has ever existed. We do not always agree, but we stick with it even when we don't win the arguement or the vote. If we can't do that we cease to be a democracy.

Maybe you don't see a need for National Parks, or the Bureau of Indian Affairs (and boy have they surely made a mess of things multiple times). Or maybe you don't see a need for federally funded roads, or maybe even a standing professional army. Well I'm sorry. That's all a part of our history. You can seek to change it, but it will take time. But our US government is US, doing what we asked it. In the meantime realize that most of those people are doing their best to provide whatever public service they have signed up to do. Of course there are bad eggs and bozo managers in the mix. That's a problem with every organization. For example I honor and respect all of those who served in the Vietnam war even though some (including some of the top leaders) could be put in the category of bad eggs and bozos for being ignorant, ineffective, and purposely misleading.

This tension goes right back to the American Revolution. Keeping the Continental Army (and Navy) in the field took lots of people and cost lots of money. As the war progress Congress wanted to know where the money was all being spent and was it really neccessary. Their attempts at clamping down often choked the army's capability, and other times missed the mark, but their concern was legit. One of George Washington's greatest skills was getting Congress and the State governments to understand the needs and keep the army in the field until the last major British forces left NYC in 1783.